January 29, 2024

News for and about the Illinois Wesleyan community

Art Celebrating the Power of Place and the Human Figure on Display at IWU Galleries

Artwork featuring astronomical human figures from a local painter and decades of printmaking from a Chicago workshop is on display in the Merwin and Wakeley Galleries in the Joyce Eichhorn Ames School of Art and Design.

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Illinois Wesleyan is among 45 not-for-profit colleges and universities in Illinois receiving state equity funding for infrastructure projects from the Illinois Board of Higher Education. IWU will receive more than $5 million. Also reported by WJBC Radio and WEEK-TV.

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Music education major Maia Hawksworth '26 attended the 2024 Illinois Music Education Conference in Peoria. She shared her goals of becoming a choir teacher and theatre music director.

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Lyle Day, who served 20 years as a volunteer assistant softball coach at IWU, passed away on Jan. 18. Head softball coach Tiffany Prager and assistant coach Rachel Shipley recalled his kindness and support.

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Barbara Galindo will spend time as a scholar in residence at IWU from Feb 7-10, where she will deliver a community lecture, introduce a documentary film screening and lead a master class. She is currently an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Postdoctoral Fellow in Race, Ethnicity and Indigeneity at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Wellness Yoga continues this week with Kim Hayes. Classes will be on Monday and Thursday in the Shirk Center Niepagen South Classroom beginning at 12:15 p.m. Hope to see you there! 

"Be patient to your restlessness. Be grateful for the opportunity of being here just now. Feel driven by the unique chance to learn a little more, to know yourself a little deeper!" - Author unknown

Associate Professor of Nursing Brenda Knoll '89 presented a two-day conference at Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan, Italy, on Premature Infant Oral Motor Intervention (PIOMI), training 34 new providers in how to implement the therapy in their Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Knoll also offered a special "Train the Trainer" session for four providers who are now certified to train others in PIOMI.

New Employees — January

Keyla Rivero started Jan. 22 as a Custodian. 

Justin Hart started Jan. 29 as Grounds Crew.

Campus Weekly is an electronic newsletter from Illinois Wesleyan's Office of Communications, edited by Julia Perez, assistant director of communications. To submit items of interest, email  webedit@iwu.edu.