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Emmy Award winner Jennifer Rudnicke ’91 joins Redbird Buzz

Casting director Jennifer Rudnicke ’91 joins Redbird Buzz to discuss her journey from Illinois State to winning an Emmy.

Summer 2024 Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts events announced

Musicians perform outside of Cook Hall during the 2023 season of Concerts on the Quad

Visit an art exhibition or attend an annual favorite such as the Concerts on the Quad and the Illinois Shakespeare Festival during the summer season.

University Galleries presents Reflection May 20-July 28

Installation view of artworks curated and on display at University Galleries for the exhibition "Reflection."

Curated by University Galleries’ Teen Art Group, in the selected paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, mixed-media works, and video, reflection suggest the act of looking forward or backward, inward or outward. It also addresses the mirroring of reflective surfaces.

Airborne: An interview with Peyton Gray ’24

The members of the ISU Wind Symphony on the CPA stage with their instruments, in their concert black attire.

Recent graduate Peyton Gray’s composition “Airborne” was premiered as part of the ISU Wind Symphony’s Spring 2024 tour and concert program.

Former Redbird races to launch VR sports app

Aneel Gillan standing in the esports arena

Redbird track and field alum Aneel Gillan won the Startup Showcase after developing a virtual reality sports app.

Class notes: Spring 2024

two individuals holding signs reading "Redbird proud," "SGA senator alum" and "student government association's 100th anniversary" pose in front of a backdrop at student government anniversary event

Keep up with what fellow alumni are doing in our class notes for the spring 2024 alumni magazine issue.

Bullish on The Bear: Casting director brings Chicago to life in award-winning series

Jennifer Rudnicke posed, sitting in a restaurant, Mr. Beef on Orleans

Jennifer Rudnicke ’90 earned a Primetime Emmy Award for her casting work on acclaimed dramedy The Bear.

Studentification is Normal

Students enrolled in a class last fall studied a phenomenon to which they and all Illinois State University students before them have contributed.

Where are they now?: Laura (Doornbos) Benton ’06

Laura Benton sitting on the step of a taildragger, a type of aircraft

Laura (Doornbos) Benton takes flight as president of Ladies Love Taildraggers, a worldwide organization of women who fly conventional landing gear aircraft known as taildraggers.

Redbird trivia: Spring 2024

Try your luck at our spring 2024 edition of Redbird trivia.