Laura (Brebner) Robbins ’10, M.S. ’12, has partnered with her brother to create Advocatia Solutions, a company working to make accessing health care benefits much easier for uninsured and underinsured patients.
Publication: Features
Better and brighter: Bone Student Center revitalized
The first phase of the Bone Student Center’s transformational revitalization was completed during the spring semester, with more work finished throughout the summer.
Diamond memories: Redbird baseball’s 1969 national championship team
The Redbird baseball team won the 1969 College Division World Series, still the only team national championship in Illinois State University history.
Business alumna breaks barriers
Tricia (Thomas) Griffith’s accomplishments as chief executive officer of The Progressive Corporation are so impressive that she is the first woman named Fortune Magazine’s Businessperson of the Year.
Mennonite Milestone: Nursing college celebrates centennial
Mennonite College of Nursing marks its centennial year having achieved a level of excellence and energy that belies the struggle behind its founding.
Alum’s action plan
Andrew Purnell is known as the man who can solve all kinds of problems—from his major in mathematics to addressing local discrimination as an undergraduate, followed by establishing as an alumnus a group that has empowered Illinois State black students for 35 years.
Seeing it all: Marine scientist leaves ocean to focus on family
On a walk one day, Jamie Baldwin Fergus’ graduate school advisor asked her if it all ended tomorrow, would she be happy?
Watershed moment: Scholar’s studies on lakes worldwide sound environmental alarm
Nobel Peace Prize-winning scientist Catherine O’Reilly has been leading international research teams that have discovered climate change has been warming lakes worldwide, threatening the fish and humans depending on them.
Heart strings: ISU music program reaches out to Bloomington-Normal youth
When the fourth grader was told she would have to turn in her cello at the end of the semester, she hugged her instrument.
War wounds: Military alum’s mission brings salve to soldiers’ souls
Col. David Rabb ’83 is an expert in the hell that is war.