UI Alumni Association

In this recording from our Alumni College webinar, LER Alumni Professor Michael LeRoy explores the notable surge in union strikes throughout 2023 and their significant impact on the economy. The

https://uiaa.org/2024/04/26/2023-the-year-that-unions-went-on-strike/

Dive into an empowering career guidance session with Julie L. Bartimus, an expert with 20 years of experience at the University of Illinois Alumni Career Center. In ‘Solid Job Search

https://uiaa.org/2024/04/26/solid-job-search-strategy/

If idle hands are the devil’s workshop, don’t expect Old Nick to knock on Suzanne Miller’s door. Miller, ’74 LAS, MD ’78 UIC, MS ’14 UIC, recently retired from her

https://uiaa.org/2024/04/25/competitive-spirit/

The 1988 Def Leppard show was a big one—16,606—and lead singer Joe Elliott announced from the stage that it had broken Elvis Presley’s all-time attendance record. Only—dramatic pause!—i...

https://uiaa.org/2024/04/15/illini-411-does-def-leppard-hold-assembly-halls-attendance-record/

From its agricultural and engineering roots, John Milton Gregory had a profound vision for what the U of I should become—a full-fledged university offering courses in every field and grounded

https://uiaa.org/2024/04/10/living-monument/

A: According to our records, at of March 2024 the oldest alumni are Mabel Craf, ’30 ED (109), of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; followed by Otto Klein, ’37 ACES (108), of

https://uiaa.org/2024/04/04/illini-411-who-are-the-oldest-living-alumni/

I’d been at my job as a bridge technical manager at the engineering firm Michael Baker International for two months when I got a photo message from my supervisor. It

https://uiaa.org/2024/04/01/alumni-interview-mary-lou-kutska/

Growing up in the western suburbs of Chicago, John W. Sutherland, ’80 ENG, MS ’82 ENG, PHD ’87 ENG, always liked math and was “pretty good at science.” It was

https://uiaa.org/2024/03/28/sustainability-engineer/

It’s showtime for the newest star attraction at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History: Sobek, a 46-foot-long cast of a Spinosaurus skeleton. This fierce semi-aquatic predator ruled the se...

https://uiaa.org/2024/03/25/field-guide/

For the Hoffman family, cheering on the Illini is a family affair. At home football and basketball games,  you will find J.R. Hoffman, ’92 LAS, MD ’96 UIC, and Rose

https://uiaa.org/2024/03/21/cheerleaders/

A: You betcha—and from way back, too. During the University’s early years—we’re talking 19th century, here—suffrage was one of the most popular debate topics between the women’s and m...

https://uiaa.org/2024/03/18/illini-411-did-u-of-i-students-fight-for-womens-suffrage/

For a University of Illinois men’s basketball player, beating IU is always a priority. But when the Hoosiers are ranked No. 1 in the nation, the importance of an Illinois

https://uiaa.org/2024/03/18/great-sport-moments-indiana-upset/

In 1981, as the Solidarity labor movement was gaining traction in Poland, Sonya Zalubowski, MS ’78 MEDIA, took a leave of absence from the Associated Press and moved to Warsaw,

https://uiaa.org/2024/03/14/undercover-reporter/

“We truly appreciated the re-establishment of the downtown areas in Krakow and Warsaw,” says Greg Cargill, ’71 ENG, of the recent trip he and several Illini took to the Czech

https://uiaa.org/2024/03/08/is-on-the-world-czech-mates/

It’s wintertime at the U of I—snow falling on Altgeld Hall, the Quad’s sidewalks slick with ice, the air so brisk even the Alma Mater looks cold—and just off campus,

https://uiaa.org/2024/02/28/memory-lane-coffee-talk/

Michael J. Miles, ’76 LAS, is a musician, teacher, poet, historian and banjo player, not necessarily in that order. While many virtuoso banjoists like Miles have brought the instrument once

https://uiaa.org/2024/02/21/renaissance-man/

Their romance began even before school did, at a summer orientation for incoming freshmen. Over the next couple of years, they blossomed together, becoming finance majors, members of rival busine...

https://uiaa.org/2024/02/12/eternal-flames/

A: Based on your graduation year, I bet you remember the 1964 Rose Bowl—a 17-7 victory over the University of Washington—where Illini fans “gathered in the end zones in the

https://uiaa.org/2024/02/09/illini-411-remember-when-goal-posts-were-made-of-wood/

Isaiah Martinez, LAS ’18, started wrestling at age 4 in Corcoran, Calif. Turned out to be an excellent choice. It was a family thing. His older brother, Steven, was a

https://uiaa.org/2024/02/06/sports-legends-highly-touted/

I teach graduate students in our writing program, and I teach literature and cultural studies courses, as well as creative writing, to undergraduates. One of my courses is on slavery

https://uiaa.org/2024/02/01/in-class-identity-explorer/