June 30, 2025

News for and about the Illinois Wesleyan community

Published biweekly during the summer months

Two New Majors Among Program Updates for 2025-26

Two new majors and a new concentration will be offered to Illinois Wesleyan University students beginning in the fall of 2025.

The Pantagraph

More than 300 students in seventh grade through high school attended the 35th annual Midwest Linemen's Camp held at Illinois Wesleyan's Tucci Stadium, led by NFL offensive coach Paul Alexander.

North Carolina State University



Amanda Solliday '06 is seeking to make the floral industry more sustainable and economically viable, a passion that started during her undergrad years at IWU studying biology and environmental studies.

WGLT Radio

Illinois Wesleyan hosted the 51st annual charity football Shrine Game June 21, with high school athletes having the chance to meet Shriners Children's patients that the game would benefit.

Campus Events

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Brenda Knoll, Associate Professor of Nursing, published a co-authored large study of preterm newborn infants where data shows Premature Infant Oral Motor Intervention (PIOMI) results in higher feeding scores, a shorter length of stay, and much higher percentage of preterm infants exclusively breastfeeding at discharge with more still breastfeeding post discharge at 6 months old. This work formally introduces PIOMI as a prehabilitative therapy in the NICU and a therapy to support early childhood development. 

Additionally, Knoll was recently announced as a 2025 Fellow with the American Academy of Nursing.

New Employees — June 2025

• Monica Jarrett on June 1 as Assistant Coach - Women's Lacrosse
• Rashid Munir on June 2 as Advancement Database Analyst
• William Woyak on June 23 as Security Analyst I in IT

Find these newly hired staff and all employees in the IWU Directory Search.

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.