Birthing dreams: Alumna achieves family, career success through surrogacy

Zara Griswold

Illinois State alumna Zara Griswold is in the business of creating families. The agency Griswold created with Staci Swiderski helps couples who cannot physically reproduce their own child navigate the expensive and legally complicated process of using gestational surrogacy with egg and sperm donation to have a baby.

Logan Frederick receives CAST Graduate Student Researcher Award

Professor Bo Park and Logan Frederick

Logan Frederick ’05, a graduate student in the quality management analytics (QMA) program of the Department of Technology, was recognized April 27 at the College of Applied Science and Technology’s (CAST) Spring meeting as the recipient of the 2016–2017 CAST Outstanding Graduate Student Researcher Award in the Project Category.