Calling the shots in business

Kenzie Meyer ’18 and Haylee Ruestman ’18 took the entrepreneurial route after graduating from the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at Illinois State.

Protecting pets in the face of disaster

Ashley Farmer and Sarah DeYoung with one of the Hurricane Harvey cats at an animal shelter.

While working on a project on hurricane evacuation and sheltering, as a graduate student at the University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center, Ashley Farmer, currently a criminal justice science professor at Illinois State, discovered the gap in research on pet preparedness in the face of disasters.