Black Colleagues Association seeks mentors

group of alumni and students stand behind table, smiling

The Black Colleagues Association (BCA) is expanding opportunities for alumni to be engaged. One way is through building meaningful relationships with current Redbirds.

Alum provides life-saving blood as a medical lab scientist and frequent donor

Eddie Gordon, seated, giving blood while giving a thumbs up

When Eddie Gordon ’12, ’17 isn’t on the job as a medical lab scientist for Carle Foundation Hospital’s blood bank in Urbana, he’s often either organizing a local blood drive, promoting the importance of blood donations, or donating blood himself. For Gordon, giving blood—a liquid essential to life—is personal.