CHP Annual 2016 - Campus Honors Program, University of Illinois

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CHP Annual 2016
CAMPUS HONORS PROGRAM
CONTENTS
Fulbright Winner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Goldwater Winner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
NSF Winners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Udall Winner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Director’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Alumni News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Alumnus Interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Post-Graduation Plans of Recent Graduates. . . . . 8
Continuing Chancellor’s Scholars. . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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U N I V E R S I T Y O F I L L I N O I S AT U R B A N A - C H A M PA I G N
FULBRIGHT WINNER
MELODY CHUA (senior, FAA Instrumental
Music and Music Technology) has been selected
for a Fulbright Grant to pursue a master’s
degree in flute performance at the Zürcher
Hochschule der Künste in Switzerland in
2016 – 2017. Her main project will be
to develop an electroacoustic flute and
create multimedia performances with the
instrument by collaborating with musicians,
visual artists and dancers in the community.
Masterclass Seminar. Melody received the
Thomas J. Smith Full Tuition Scholarship
and the Division Achievement Award for
Outstanding Woodwind Player of the Year,
and she is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi
Honor Society. Melody worked at the
Krannert Art Museum, the School of Music,
and as an Independent Recording Engineer.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship
international educational exchange program
sponsored by the U.S. government and is
Melody has played flute and piccolo at music designed to build international relations
festivals around the nation and the world, and to solve global challenges, and the Office
has ensemble experience at UI and elsewhere. of National and International Scholarships
She received Fellowships for full- or partialadministers the Fulbright Program at
tuition to Future Music Lab, Project Trio
Illinois. This year marks the 70th anniversary
of the Fulbright Program’s establishment.
Festival, and the Bernard Z. Goldberg
Undergraduate Research Symposium. . . . . . . . 14
Chancellor’s Scholar
Elijah Benjamin Karvelis
In the News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Campus Honors Program Award Winners
2015-2016. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Donors to the CHP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Orientation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Frequent Flyers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Honors Student Council. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Equinox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
CHaPel of Love -- Couples 22 and 23 . . . . . . . . 32
Convocation 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
KDR and SAS Updates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Faculty News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
CHP 30th Anniversary Celebration. . . . . . . . . . 36
We are very proud of the students
featured in the 2016 CHP Annual.
All CHP graduating seniors are
profiled in our 2016 CHP Yearbook,
CHP graduate Melody Chua
GOLDWATER WINNER
ELIJAH BENJAMIN KARVELIS (sophomore,
LAS Chemical Engineering) was awarded
a Goldwater Scholarship for Academic
Year 2016 - 2017. The following is
excerpted from a press release by the
National and International Scholarships
Program at the University of Illinois:
“Karvelis, of Pecatonica, Illinois, is
a sophomore studying chemical and
biomolecular engineering. He is attending
Illinois with the aid of a Stamps Scholarship.
Karvelis plans to pursue a PhD in chemical or
biological engineering and conduct research
in biotechnology to advance health sciences.
Karvelis has worked with Professor Charles
Schroeder to synthesize structurally defined
polymers. Last summer, he participated
in a National Science Foundation Research
Experience for Undergraduates at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
before returning to the Schroeder
Lab last fall.” He received the Woese
Undergraduate Research Scholarship for
his research in Dr. Brendan Harley’s lab
at the IGB for Summer 2016, where he is
working on a tissue engineering project
that utilizes microfluidics to study brain
cancer and angiogenesis/vascularization.
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and
Excellence in Education Program was
established by Congress in 1986 to honor
Barry M. Goldwater, who served 30 years
in the U.S. Senate. The program provides
a continuing source of highly qualified
scientists, mathematicians and engineers
by awarding scholarships to sophomores
and juniors from the United States who
intend to pursue doctorates in these fields.
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION WINNERS
The National Science Foundation (NSF)
Graduate Research Fellowship Program
(GRFP) provides three years of support
toward advanced research-based degrees.
One recent CHP graduate and two
CHP alumni have received a National
Science Foundation Graduate Research
Fellowship: CONNOR S. BAILEY (senior,
ENG Materials Science and Engineering),
EWAN SCOTT ROBINSON (12/07 alumnus,
ACES Natural Resources and Environmental
Sciences), and SHYAM M. SALADI, (5/14
DIRECTOR ’S MESSAGE
in their Biochemistry and Molecular
Biophysics PhD program, and Ewan is
studying Sociology at Cornell University.
later joined us for a lovely dinner at the
Illini Union where she was welcomed to
campus by Chancellor Barbara Wilson.
CHP graduates and alumni also received
several honorable mentions from the NSF:
ANDREW (DREW) BELL , 5/14 alumnus, ENG
Mechanical Engineering, ANTHONY J. BRUNO,
5/14 alumnus, ENG Mechanical Engineering,
ALEX NATHAN KAHN , senior, ENG Mechanical
Engineering, SEAN W. MCLAUGHLIN , 5/15
alumnus, ENG Engineering Physics, and SHERYL
WANG , 5/15 alumna, ENG Bioengineering.
alumnus, ENG Electrical Engineering; and
LAS Molecular and Cellular Biology).
CHP graduate Connor S. Bailey
CHP Director Kim Graber gives remarks
at CHP Graduation Reception
Connor is attending Stanford University
to pursue a PhD in Electrical Engineering,
Shyam is at California Institute of Technology
UDALL WINNER
CAMPUS HONORS
PROGR AM
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DR. KIM GRABER
Director
ELIZABETH ROCKMAN
Associate Director
JULIE HIGGS WOOLSEY
Associate Director for
Admissions and Operations
ANNE PRICE
Office Administrator
MARGARET CUPPS
Office Support Specialist
The 2016 CHP Annual newsletter
(except for Director’s Corner and
by-lined items) was compiled
and written by Elizabeth
Rockman; she is responsible
for any errors or omissions.
Please send all future updates
to Elizabeth Rockman at
[email protected].
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Chancellor’s Scholar
Kenneth Alexander Hoffmann
KENNETH ALEXANDER HOFFMANN
(junior, ENG Mechanical Engineering)
won a Udall Scholarship for Academic
Year 2016 - 2017. The following is
excerpted from a press release by the
National and International Scholarships
Program at the University of Illinois:
“Kenneth Hoffmann, of Naperville,
Illinois was recently named one of 60
Udall Scholars. Hoffmann, a junior in
Mechanical Engineering at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, was selected
from among 482 candidates nominated
by 227 colleges and universities.
Campus Honors Program | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | August 2016
“Hoffmann has been involved with the
Illini EcoConcept Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Car Team since his freshman year. He
was named president of this student
organization in fall 2015 and leads the team
to compete in competitions such as the Shell
Eco-marathon. Hoffmann has been as an
Engineering Learning Assistant, teaching
an orientation class to 20 engineering
freshmen. He also spent a year as a robotics
research assistant in the lab of Aerospace
Engineering Professor Timothy Bretl,
exploring aerial robotics. Hoffmann plans
to pursue a PhD in mechanical engineering
to develop low-cost transportation
technology using electricity and hydrogen
and to advance renewable energy policy.”
Established by Congress in 1992, the Morris
K. Udall and Steward L Udall Foundation
awards scholarships, fellowships and
internships for study in fields related to the
environment and to American Indians and
Alaska Natives in fields related to health
care and tribal public policy. The Udall
Foundation selects scholars based on their
commitments to careers in the environment,
American Indian health care, or tribal public
policy, through their leadership, record of
public service, and academic achievement.
Each year I look forward to writing my
annual message because it allows me to
share the many exciting activities that have
occurred in the Campus Honors Program
(CHP). Although it was an unexpectedly
difficult year due to the lack of a state
budget, we continued with most of our
programs while simultaneously adding new
activities thanks, in large measure, to the
generosity of our loyal donors. Although we
were unable to offer an Intercultural Study
Tour and will need to tighten our budget
even more during the coming year, I am
confident that we will continue to boldly
move forward in an uncertain climate in
order to nurture the enormous talents and
intellects of our Chancellor’s Scholars. They
are the reason it is such a pleasure to work in
the Honors House. They challenge us to be
our best and to provide an honors experience
that is grounded in both depth and breadth.
We kicked off the year with our annual
Convocation celebration in memory of Keith
Kelroy. This year we invited Chaz Ebert
to speak at the event. As you may know,
Ebertfest is one of the most important
events hosted by our local community.
For many years, hundreds of people
would wait in line at the Virginia Theater
in Champaign to view different movies
selected by the late film critic Roger Ebert.
Since many of our students have never
had an opportunity to attend Ebertfest, we
decided to bring a form of the event to our
students. Roger’s wife, Chaz, spoke about
her role in the film festival along with the
book Life Itself that Roger finished writing
shortly before his death. Since students
had been provided with a copy of the
book in advance, they were able to engage
in lively discussion with Mrs. Ebert who
graciously answered their questions and
Another important undertaking related to
making needed renovations to the Honors
House. Although we are located in an
older building, we firmly believe that our
students deserve the best study and social
environment we can provide. Thus, we
purchased a large projection system for
the classroom that facilitates PowerPoint
and enables us to show movies on a highdefinition screen. We also upgraded the
library and lounge with new furniture, paint,
and carpeting that are featured in pictures
throughout this newsletter and on our
website. We also provided canvases, paint,
and art materials to talented students who
volunteered to create beautiful paintings
that adorn the walls throughout the building.
Our artists include Jessica Chen, Melody
Chua, Sophia Garfias-Yi, Rianna Greer,
Charlotte Hunt, and Hailey Weidner;
all of whom are Chancellor’s Scholars.
The popularity of this art project along
with the high praise we have received for
sprucing up the Honors House with colorful
paintings made us decide this is a program
that we plan to continue into the future.
Once the renovations to the student lounge
had been completed and the artwork hung,
it was time for a big surprise. In honor of
his many years of service and contributions
to the CHP, we decided to name the lounge
after the former director, Professor Bruce
Michelson. We invited current students,
faculty, friends, local alumni, and Bruce’s
family members to the lounge dedication in
order to surprise Bruce with this honor. He
was upstairs finishing the last lecture of his
class for the semester when we asked him
to join us in the lounge for an important
meeting. To his astonishment, everyone was
waiting to celebrate with him. Afterward, he
informed us it was only the second time in
his life when he had truly been surprised!
The 2016-17 academic year is going to
be particularly exciting for many honors
students. For the first time in Illinois history,
we are offering an Honors Living Learning
Community that will house 240 Chancellor’s
Scholars and James Scholars. The CHP and
University Housing will jointly oversee the
role of the new Director, Brian Moffitt. Brian
has previously served as a live-in Residence
Director at Illinois, and he brings a wealth
of knowledge, enthusiasm, motivation, and
many great ideas with him into the new
program. He and other faculty will offer
a one-credit required honors course for
residents along with other honors courses
that students will be able to take from the
comfort of their new home, Nugent Hall.
We welcome Brian into the position and
look forward to witnessing many exciting
plans that he intends to bring to fruition.
Finally, I hope you will read the full 2016
CHP Annual to learn more about our events
and the achievements of our students
during the past year. We have added new
sections to the newsletter that we think
you will find interesting. In particular,
we have added sections that include
information about the Honors Student
Council, a student interview conducted
with faculty member Ariana Trail, a report
from the Environmental Sustainability
Committee, an interview with CHP
alumnus Steve Wooden, and an overview of
Orientation. We know you will also enjoy
an update in our CHaPel of Love section!
I would like to close my message by thanking
the honors deans from across campus and
our CHP staff who work extremely hard
for our students with genuine enthusiasm.
Finally, it is because of our students, faculty,
staff, alumni, and friends of our program
that make it possible for me to come to
work each day with a smile on my face and
a genuine dedication to making campus life
for honors students the best that it can be.
Best wishes. I hope to see you
at our 30th reunion.
Kim C. Graber, Ed.D.
Director, Campus Honors Program
Professor, Kinesiology and
Community Health
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ALUMNI NEWS
ALUMNI NEWS CONTINUED
…I cruised around the CHP website
for a while and the courses this fall look
amazing! I’m not sure I can adequately
(say) how much CHP meant to me and
still means to me. I miss the house and the
comfort of being there often, and I very
genuinely think I wouldn’t be at Hopkins
now without having CHP in my life.”
POOJA BAG (5/15 alumna, ENG Bioengineering)
in 8/15: “All 6 of us Laos Fulbrighters
have been together for the last few weeks
doing orientation stuff in-country. We’re
in Vientiane, the capital, taking language
and teacher training classes. Next
week, I’ll move down to Savannakhet,
where I’ll be teaching alongside one
other Fulbrighter and an English Fellow
(also through the State Department). It
should be a good group, though I don’t
know what I’m teaching or when classes
start. All part of the experience!”
RICHARD BOETTCHER (8/10 alumnus, ENG
Nuclear Engineering) in 5/16: “I recently
earned an Interdisciplinary Master of
Science in Engineering (MSE/MS) with
a concentration in Industrial Engineering
from Purdue. I have been taking distance
learning courses through Purdue’s
‘Engineering Professional Education’ for
the past 5 years while concurrently doing
civilian and military work, getting married,
and having children. Hope things are going
well with CHP! I hope to eventually bring
my family down to visit. I currently live
just west of Milwaukee (in Waukesha, WI).
GREG CRIMMINS (5/02 alumnus, LAS Cellular
and Structural Biology) in 8/15: “I have great
memories of the school and the CHP, it was
one of the best times of my life! After UIUC,
I went on to get a PhD in molecular biology
from Berkeley, and I have recently started a
company to develop new cancer drugs. We
have a website (remedyplan.com), we have
a Facebook page (Remedy Plan), and we are
launching a blog this week, accessible from
our website or Facebook page. We also have
a Twitter account: @remedyplan. We are
covering all the social media bases! We are
located in the Maryland/Washington DC
region. We are launching our crowdfunding
campaign in late September, and will
also be reaching out to angel investors.
…I wasn’t sure what I wanted to study
when I took JAMES KALER’S and DAVID
RUZIC’S classes through CHP, and they
definitely inspired me to try to change the
world through scientific research and just
trying to figure out how things actually
work. I ended up going into biology, but
I think they both played a big role in my
decision to commit to a research track.”
MAX ELLITHORPE (12/11 alumnus, LAS
Political Science) in 8/15: “I’m still living
CHP alum Tory Cross
VICTORIA (TORY) CROSS (5/15 alumna,
LAS Individual Plans of Study) in 11/15:
“Baltimore has been great. My set of first
term classes went really well, including
getting through Epidemiology successfully
(which is usually cited as the hardest class
for Public Health students). I started a field
placement this week with House of Ruth
Maryland, a domestic violence prevention
non-profit. I got to visit the shelter this
week and spend a little bit of time with the
kids. I’ll be using ethnographic research
to evaluate how House of Ruth interacts
with the LGBT community in Baltimore.
I’m also starting a Federal Work Study
next week looking at health outcomes for
black men relating to racism. I’m really
glad this is where I decided to be, and I
hope that your other students who are
applying to grad schools are doing well at
keeping their world together right now!”
An update in 5/16: “It was a hard year
of school but I learned so much! Part of
my program is doing a 6 month to 1 year
internship, and I start mine in a few weeks!
I’ll be working on an ethnographic study
of deep poverty in Baltimore, interviewing
people about how they access health care
for their children and trying to understand
points where health professionals can
intervene to mitigate the relationship
between poverty in childhood and negative
health outcomes in adulthood. I’ll be
working 40 hours a week and helping to
write a grant and I think the experience
will be really beneficial for me! I wrote a
paper for my Environmental Justice class
on federal regulations in cities about lead
in water and how the regulations do not
adequately protect low-income, minority
citizens, and I’m hoping to publish it.
out in DC, and started a (relatively) new
job earlier this year at the Federal Reserve
Board. It’s nice to be settled here for the
time being, and not traveling as much
as I was doing with consulting. I love
reading the updates on the CHP website
and miss my time in the program. Let
me know if there’s ever anything I
can do to support CHP from DC!”
KIMIKO GUNJI reported in 1/16: “MICHAEL
MUNIE (5/04 alumnus, LAS Mathematics and
ENG Computer Science) and JEAN HE (8/05
alumna, ENG Computer Science and LAS
Finance) are back to Chicago from Paris and
organized our ICST reunion and we met in
Chicago on January 8. CAROL MALMGREN
also joined and we had Michael, Jean,
ALAN KOH (5/02 alumnus, ENG Mechanical
Engineering), SANDEEP NAVALGUND (5/05
alumnus, LAS Finance and ENG Computer
Engineering), GENEVIEVE NANO (5/03 alumna,
LAS Chemistry and ACES Natural Resources and
Environmental Sciences), REBECCA HARRIS
(5/05 alumna, LAS Biology and Biochemistry),
and BEN (5/01 alumus, FAA Music Education)
and AMANDA (LEONARD, 5/04 alumna, LAS
Chemistry) SHANBAUM . Rebecca brought
her husband, Alan came with his wife,
and Genevieve brought her husband and
two daughters. It was a great reunion.”
ERICA HINZ (5/14 alumna, LAS Integrative
Biology) in 6/16: “I got the internship (at
the St. Louis Zoo), and it was absolutely
fantastic. I worked with the sea lions and
it was really great – I really liked everyone
I worked with and I learned a lot about
animal training and marine mammals.
Sadly my last day was a couple weeks
ago because the summer interns started,
but I’m really glad I got the opportunity
to work there. It was awesome!”
JAMES JAY, JR. (5/02 alumnus, LAS Political
Science and English) in 2/16: “I’m in Ho Chi
Minh City now working at our Consulate,
and will be here until 2018. It’s nice to be
in the same place and same job for a few
years. Please feel free to share in case any
alumni or students are stopping through.”
ETHEL LIAO (5/15 alumna, BUS Info
Su) in 8/15: “I’ve just returned from
3 weeks of training – Cincinnati,
OH, and Bloomington, IN! – and
am settling in at my new job with GE
Power & Water in Atlanta, GA.”
KEVIN HOMANN (5/12 alumnus, LAS
Chemical Engineering) in 6/16: “Work (at
LyondellBasell) is keeping me busy. I just
got a new coop that I’m training, so that’s
taking up a good amount of time. I’ve been
doing a little bit of travel recently. I don’t
have any plans to make it out of the country
again, but I have about 10 days of vacation
I need to spend by the end of the year,
so I’m beginning to think about where to
go. Work will keep my busy this year. I’ll
spend a couple of weeks in our Morris, IL,
plant for a turnaround. Other than that,
I’m still living in the Quad Cities area with
no plans to leave the area anytime soon.”
EMILY MCEWAN-FUJITA (5/93 alumna, LAS
Anthropology) in 6/16: “Dr. Emily McEwan
has published a new book titled The Scottish
Gaelic Tattoo Handbook: Authentic Words
and Phrases in the Celtic Language of
Scotland (Bradan Press, 2016). Drawing
on her expertise in Gaelic language and
culture, she provides information on how
to choose an appropriate tattoo in the
Scottish Gaelic language. The book contains
a glossary of nearly 400 authentic words
and phrases, examples of real-life Gaelic
tattoos gone wrong, advice on how to avoid
common mistakes, and insights on how to
use Gaelic words in a tattoo design that
honours and supports the culture. The
book is for tattoo lovers and anyone with
an interest in Celtic, Scottish, and Gaelic
cultures. Emily, a linguistic anthropologist,
now lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
She has been involved with Gaelic for over
25 years, starting with study abroad at the
University of Aberdeen in Scotland. She
has authored numerous academic research
articles on Gaelic language revitalization
and blogs about Gaelic at http://gaelic.co.”
The UI History Department announced
WENDY MATHEWSON (5/96 alumna, LAS
History) started as a new History Advisor
in December 2015: “Wendy Mathewson,
the new academic advisor in the history
department, is delighted to be serving
students at her alma mater. She graduated
from the University of Illinois (Bronze
Tablet) with a BA in history. At Illinois,
Wendy participated in the Campus Honors
Program and wrote a senior thesis in
the history department. She went on to
earn a Masters of Divinity at McCormick
Theological Seminary in Chicago, receiving
the Arthur A. Hays Fellowship in Church
History. Wendy has worked in Student
Affairs at Northwestern University
(Evanston, IL) and DePaul University
(Chicago), working with Residence Life,
supporting LGBTQA students, and
staffing interfaith student groups.”
BENJAMIN MONTET (5/11 alumnus, LAS
Physics and Astronomy) and LAURA KLEIN
(5/11 alumna, LAS Integrative Biology) in 6/16:
“It’s been a while since we’ve checked in
with the CHP family (and somehow, five
years since we graduated!), but we had
some news we wanted to share with you.
“Ben will be defending his PhD thesis in
the Caltech astronomy and astrophysics
department this July. He’ll be starting as
a Carl Sagan Fellow at the University of
Chicago in the fall, studying planets around
other stars. Laura recently returned from
her dissertation fieldwork in the mountains
of southern Poland (to the same field site
she visited in the summer of 2010 as an
undergrad with the help of a CHP summer
travel grant) and will be writing up her
PhD over the next year in the Harvard
department of Human Evolutionary Biology.
“In addition, we will be getting married
this August! We’re very excited to be
able to add ourselves to the list of happy
CHP couples. We look forward to being
back in Illinois next academic year and
definitely plan to stop by the HoHo this
autumn.” For more information, see
CHaPel of Love item on page 33.
CARL PRESS (5/07 alumnus, ENG Electrical
Engineering) in 8/15: “In May 2015,
I began a new job as a Vice President
on the investment team at Thoma
Bravo in San Francisco, evaluating and
executing private equity investments
in technology companies (enterprise
application software and infrastructure
IT). I’m still living in the Pacific Heights
neighborhood of San Francisco and enjoying
all of the beauty of the Bay Area.”
CLIFF REDEKER (5/04 alumnus, LAS French,
History, and Psychology) in 10/15: “This is
the third week of my three-week crosscountry tour. We had the amazing Culture
Summit, the incredible Zeitgeist 2015,
and now on-campus recruiting. I’m back
at the University of Illinois for some
speeches and meetings. We’re helping the
Class of 2015 Bring Questions and Build
Answers. The majority of my workday will
be in support of that, with the remainder
on Talks Team meetings and dramatic
email triage.” While on campus, Cliff
talked about Google’s innovation and
management philosophy in a Power Lunch
with current Chancellor’s Scholars.
KIMBERLY REDEKER (5/09 alumna, LAS
Communication) in 2/16: “Things have been
crazy here in Florida, but I am gearing up
for graduation May 1 from Florida Gulf
Coast University with my MBA. I have
been applying for jobs that more align to my
skills and career goals, and I have made it
decently far with the interview process with
Gartner. CLIFF (REDEKER, 5/04 alumnus,
LAS French, History, and Psychology) visited last
weekend. I really have been enjoying the
Ft. Myers area; there is always something
to do, and it is a good mix of ‘country
and city.’ I am very glad that I decided to
obtain my MBA; it really has been great to
further my education in a different area.
An update in 3/16: “Just wanted to let
you know that...I GOT THE JOB!! I am
SUPER excited. I start March 21 as a
New Client Engagement Specialist with
Gartner. I am thrilled that I will have a
job that will transpire into a wonderful
career with a great company, and utilize
more of the skills I have obtained from my
MBA. I graduate May 1, and just ordered
my regalia last week! I am nostalgic for
the Commencement activities at UI.”
JULIA REYNOLDS (12/07 alumna, LAS
International Studies) in 6/16: “I hope all
is well with the Campus Honors Program
and the new recruits keep getting better
and better. I’m happy to say that I am
indeed still in Vienna – going on six years
now! I still absolutely love it here and feel
quite integrated into Austrian life by now.
However, things might change in a year
or so and I may have another adventure
on my hands. I am currently in the fourth
year of the Finance PhD program at the
Vienna Graduate School of Finance, a
joint program of the WU University of
Economics and Business and the University
continued on page 6
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CATCHING UP WITH CHP ALUMNUS STEVE WOODEN
ALUMNI NEWS CONTINUED
of Vienna, and I am on track to defend my
thesis next summer. After the PhD, I would
like to join a university research faculty,
which will likely mean leaving Vienna and
discovering a new city – and career! I
haven’t yet decided whether I’ll stay in
Europe or hang up my ex-pat hat and return
to the states, but in the meantime I plan
to enjoy my time in this wonderful city.”
HANNAH RICKEY (5/15 alumna, LAS Spanish
and Anthropology) in 8/16: “I will be making
my big move next week! I will be in Fall
River, MA. I’ve been getting more of the
details of my AmeriCorps position recently
and finally got my apartment finalized, so
I’m starting to get very excited about it.”
An update in 12/15: “Things are going
pretty well so far! I really enjoy the work
we do in my office. I do our client intakes
as well as some casework, mostly on
citizenship and DACA cases, and then I
help out all over the place with contacting
clients and translating because none of our
attorneys speak much Spanish. I get to use
Spanish on a daily basis, and also because
it’s allowed me already to see a lot of the
steps in the process for some of the more
complicated cases we have in progress,
which I otherwise would not get to see. I’m
busy all the time, but in a way that I have
really been enjoying. I am very glad that
this AmeriCorps position worked out! I
miss Champaign and the HoHo... I was
actually reminiscing with CLARA (MOUNT,
5/14 alumna, LAS English) just yesterday
about hanging out in the lounge when
we were working on the paper cranes.”
TARA ROGERS (5/05 alumna, ACES Food
Science and Human Nutrition) in 8/15: “I just
received the 2015 CHP Annual and thought
it was time to send in my own update. I
have fond memories of CHP classes and
activities as an undergrad. It’s wonderful to
know that the program is still going strong.
After graduating in 2005 in Food Science
and Human Nutrition, I completed my
Master’s in Nutritional Sciences, as well as
the dietetic internship, at Illinois. I worked
for three years as a registered dietitian
in Phoenix, Arizona, and then moved to
Davis, California. This summer I finished
my PhD in Nutritional Biology from the
University of California, Davis. My research
emphasis is bone health and osteoporosis
prevention/treatment. In October I am
going to start a postdoctoral research
Power Lunch with Chancellor’s Scholars and CHP alum Anthony Sheehan
position at the Center for Musculoskeletal
Health, University of California, Davis
Medical Center, in Sacramento.”
ANTHONY SHEEHAN (5/89 alumnus, LAS
Political Science) in 2/16: “After graduating
from U of I, I attended Michigan Law,
graduating in 1992. For the past 23+
years, I have been an attorney in the
Appellate Section of the Tax Division in
the U.S. Department of Justice.” While
on campus, Anthony talked with current
Chancellor’s Scholars interested in
pursuing a legal career at a Power Lunch.
RUTH TEKESTE (5/12 alumna, LAS Psychology)
in 11/15: “I am in my 2nd year teaching
10th grade English at Hansberry College
Prep, a founding high school in the Noble
network, a high achieving network in
Chicago. ROBYN BESANA , (5/12 alumna,
SW Social Work) is in her first year as
a school social worker at Gary Comer
Middle School, another school in the same
network! We traveled through Central
America two summers ago, I went to Eritrea
this past summer, and we’re planning a
Euro trip for this upcoming summer.”
CARRINGTON WATKINS (5/15 alumna,
ENG Material Science and Engineering) in
8/15: “Illini 4000 went very well and I
am very happy I had the opportunity to
be a part of the team this year. My job
starts on the 14th of September so I will
be in Indianapolis after Labor Day.”
NICHOLAS WISSEMAN (5/03 alumnus, LAS
Anthropology and History) in 8/15: “I have
a lot of fond memories from my time at
the U of I, but I especially enjoyed writing
papers for my Campus Honors Program
classes – they were always more demanding
creatively. In the years since, I’ve been
writing more and more fiction, and it finally
bore fruit: my first two novels just came
out. “House with a Blue Door is a literary
novel inspired by the time I spent working
at a group home for mentally handicapped
residents, many of whom had additional
diagnoses like Down syndrome, Tourette’s,
and paranoid schizophrenia. My primary
goal is to show this group of people as
people, not stereotypes. 10 percent of my
royalties will go to charity. The Red Wraith
is a historical fantasy set in Early America.
The protagonist is a Native American who
becomes the focus for magic’s reentry into
the world. Details for both books are on
my website: www.nickwisseman.com.”
An update in 3/16: “Within the next few
months, Edge releases my new novella
The Battle Dancer. And within the next
year, I hope to have my third novel out,
tentatively titled Magic in the White City.”
CAROL WONG (5/02 alumna, LAS English) in
9/15: “I just received the CHP Annual and
it reminded me to provide an update. After
graduation, I worked as an administrative
assistant for about two years, and then
returned to law school at the University of
Illinois College of Law. After graduating
from law school, I clerked for the U.S.
District Court for the Western District
of Tennessee in Memphis, Tennessee. I
then accepted a position as a trial attorney
for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil
Rights Division, Employment Litigation
Section in Washington, DC. I married a
fellow College of Law graduate and we just
had a cheerful, outgoing baby girl at the
end of December. I’m more than happy to
speak with anyone who is considering law
school and/or relocating to the DC area.”
CHP alums Steve Wooden and Alex Kordas
STEVE WOODEN (5/01 alumnus, ENG Computer Engineering and LAS
Economics) is a software engineer and partner at Wolverine Trading
in Chicago, IL. He recently sat down with ALEX KORDAS (5/15
alumnus, ENG Computer Engineering), also a software engineer at
Wolverine Trading, to discuss his experiences with CHP and the UI.
AK: Let’s start out with telling us a little bit about your
time at Illinois – what you studied, what you were
involved in on campus and with CHP, et cetera.
SW: I was in the ENG/LAS dual degree program, and it took some
planning to make sure that I had all my coursework completed
for both degrees. As far as my involvement in CHP goes, I did
work as the sole Computer Guy™ starting my sophomore year.
AK: Right, you were the Computer Guy™ at the time,
because there was only one! What was that like?
SW: Yep! I was trained by ANDREW KACZOREK (5/99 alumnus, ENG
Computer Science) we had a couple weeks of transition but after that
I was on my own. The labs were all Windows 95 then, so machines
were crashing all the time. And because many students didn’t have
their own computers, those third floor labs saw a lot of use! There
were definitely nights where I’d be at the house and we’d have all
the computers upstairs in use, which I’m sure isn’t how it is now.
AK: So you’re doing more business-oriented stuff than your
average CS graduate probably finds themselves doing, generally
speaking. How did what you learned at U of I help you with that?
SW: When I think back on CHP, that’s where I feel like I see it as a
really great fit. Sometimes I feel that once you pick your area of
focus or your major, it’s easy to zoom in on all the cool classes you
can take in that area, and end up not really exploring anything else.
But CHP helped to bring a better balance to the coursework I had
on my plate, much like being involved in student organizations did. I
was heavily involved with the Student Alumni Ambassadors, and that
was a really wide variety of people from all majors and all colleges,
and I found that immensely rewarding. When you’re brainstorming
with ten strong personalities, and trying to come to some sort of a
consensus, there’s a lot of challenges there, and it’s very similar to the
workplace. You want to give everyone enough intellectual freedom to
explore as they’d like, without losing sight of the core mission at hand.
AK: A lot of CHP students are probably trying to find the
major that’s right for them, or to choose a career path for
after they graduate. Do you have any advice for them?
AK: Let’s talk about CHP classes too, because that’s really
the biggest commitment that most students make to the
program. What was your favorite one that you took?
SW: Definitely Experiencing Architecture with JIM WARFIELD. I’ll
never think of space, light, and movement the same way again! That
was a class that really got me to think differently–I think that was
the real strength of CHP for me, that I’d be taking classes that pulled
me away from the worlds of Economics readings and CS machine
problems, and working with something completely different.
AK: So let’s talk a bit more about what you’re
doing now, here at Wolverine.
SW: Sure. It’s been a pretty natural transition for me, mostly looking
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for areas where processes and knowledge are deficient and taking
responsibility for those areas and filling in those gaps. I expect
to be interrupted, answer questions, and get individuals across
teams together to completely solve or diagnose an issue. And
yes, I happily still (occasionally) write code! I’ve been here for 14
years now, which seems like a really long time in the tech world.
SW: I think this is really hard, because the traditional saying, which
I do believe, is that you should find something that you love to
do, so that work isn’t really work, per se. One piece of advice
I have is to build relationships - during those group projects in
class or through student activities - the peers you have at Illinois
are second to none; you never know when your paths will cross
in the future and maybe some of those relationships will end
up helping you find your passion. I was also involved with the
Illinois Leadership Center for a while, and they do a really good
job of helping to give students some more general skills that’ll
be useful regardless of what career path you’re seeking.
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POST- GR ADUATION PL ANS OF RECENT GR ADUATES
CONTINUING AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
LEANN BECKMAN (BUS Accountancy) – “In
January 2016, I will be interning at Mowery
& Schoenfeld, then I will come back for the
MAS program at Illinois in Fall 2016.”
MAXWELL E. COLON (LAS Psychology
and Spanish) – “This summer, I am in
search of Human Resources internship
opportunities before I return to the
Champaign-Urbana area in the fall to begin
the Master’s of Human Resources and
Industrial Relations program in the College
of Labor and Employment Relations.”
SAM SAGAN (ENG Electrical Engineering)
– “I will be graduating in December
and proceeding to a Master’s program
in EE right here at the U of I.”
HANNAH SIMMONS (AHS Speech and
Hearing Science) – “After I graduate in
POST- GR ADUATION PL ANS OF RECENT GR ADUATES CONTINUED
of Illinois at Chicago in the fall for my
graduate studies in occupational therapy.”
of Medicine this fall!! I am incredibly
excited to go to my top choice school.”
EMILY CULLUM (ENG Bioengineering) – “I
ISAAC PHILIP (LAS Molecular and Cellular
Biology) – “I am starting medical school
will be starting an MD/PhD program
this fall! I will be joining the University
of Chicago MSTP this summer.”
May, I will be attending grad school at
the University of Illinois to become a
Speech-Language Pathologist.”
JEFFREY R. SMITH (ENG Mechanical
Engineering) – “I am enrolled in the MSTM
program here at Illinois, and I will be
working for Illinois Tool Works in their
Fuel Department of the Automotive
Division as a Mechanical Engineer.”
UMBERTO RAVAIOLI (ENG Electrical
Engineering) – “I’m interning at Microsoft
in the summer of 2016, and will be
returning to grad school in the Fall to
pursue a PhD in Computer Engineering.”
MEDICINE AND LAW
CHP graduate Gerald Wu
VINCENT ABEJUELA (LAS Molecular and
Cellular Biology and Physics) – “After May
I will be applying for medical school/
graduate school (Engineering or Biology)
and I tentatively plan on continuing
research at my current lab between
graduation and starting graduate school.”
XIANGYUN JOHN DUAN (ENG Electrical
Engineering) – “After I graduate, I will
be off to Johns Hopkins for my MD!”
KATHERINE GARBACIAK (LAS Integrative
Biology) – “I’m very lucky to be able to say
I’m officially going to be a veterinarian!
I have officially accepted and will be
attending the University of Wisconsin
as a member of the class of 2020 in the
fall! If you can’t tell, I’m a little excited.”
LAUREN HALL (ACES Food Science and
Human Nutrition) – “After graduation, I
plan on traveling and working for a year,
gaining experience in the health care
field. After that I will be heading out to
Seattle to Bastyr University to become a
Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine (ND).”
CHP alumnae siblings Elise,
Lauren, and Kathryn Hall
CHP graduate Gabrielle Riccio
GABRIELLE NICOLETTE RICCIO (ACES
Animal Sciences) – “Beginning May 2016 I
will return home to gain more animal and
veterinary experience and in the Fall of
2016 I will be attending the University of
Illinois School of Veterinary Medicine.”
KARLI N. ROBINSON (ACES Animal Sciences)
– “I will be attending the University of
Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine
this upcoming fall semester. I hope to
earn my DVM and become a veterinarian
for both small and large animals.”
MADISON BARKER (LAS Molecular and
Cellular Biology) – “This summer I will
be lifeguarding for Campus Recreation
and then I will be pursuing a PhD in
the Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Program at the University of North
Carolina Chapel Hill this fall.”
CRYSTAL CHANG (LAS Molecular and Cellular
Biology) – “Following my graduation, I will
be applying to Dental School and will be
working and gaining experience before.”
SARA BRUMM (LAS Psychology and English)
– “I will be attending the University
in the fall. I am going to Saint Louis
University. I will be taking summer
trips to India and San Diego.”
GERALD (JERRY) JIANG WU (LAS
Molecular and Cellular Biology) – “Following
JASMINE KIRBY (LAS History) – “I will
be going on to graduate school at the
Graduate School of Information Sciences
here at UI starting this summer. I’ll
be around Champaign-Urbana.”
been accepted to three programs so far,
so I’m still not sure where I’ll be.”
ANNA JI (LAS Integrative Biology) – “My plans
are to take a gap year and figure out what
avenue of health I would like to pursue. I am
currently considering Physician Assistant
school, nursing school, and medical school.
I will work for a year in one of the hospitals
in town to gain patient care experience
before I apply to graduate school.”
KATHERINE JOHNSON (ACES Animal
Sciences) – “I am graduating with my
Bachelor’s in Animal Science with a
Pre-veterinary concentration. I officially
decided to attend the College of Veterinary
Medicine at the University of Missouri.”
KATHERINE D. LINCOLN (LAS Integrative
Biology) – “I have officially decided to
attend medical school at SIU School
graduation, I will spend the summer
on vacation traveling across the States
and I will be visiting China from late
May to mid-June. I am so excited to
say that I have been accepted to both
UIC and IUSM! Furthermore, I am
fully committed to Indiana University
School of Medicine as they have awarded
me a recruitment scholarship. I will be
starting medical school on August 8th.”
CHP graduate Brett Glasner
BRETT A. GLASNER (ENG Mechanical
Engineering) – “I will be going to
Stanford for my master’s degree.”
GRADUATE & PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
RAMYA BABU (ENG Bioengineering) – “I will
be attending Cornell University for their
Masters in Computer Science program
in Fall of 2016. After that, I intend to
continue my studies with a PhD.”
CONNOR S. BAILEY (ENG Materials Science
and Engineering) – “In the fall, I will be
attending Stanford University to pursue a
PhD in Electrical Engineering. I am also
happy to share that I will be supported by an
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!”
ISAAC CARRASQUILLO (ENG Engineering
Physics) – “I will be attending UC
Berkeley for my physics PhD to do
condensed matter physics.”
MELODY CHUA (FAA Instrumental Music
and Music Technology) – “I have accepted
a fellowship to work at the Future Music
Lab at the Atlantic Music Festival for this
June - July. I will collaborate with violinist/
composer and Julliard instructor Mari
Kimura, for the continued development of
an electroacoustic flute. I have been selected
to receive the Fulbright Scholarship for my
master’s studies at the Zürich University of
the Arts (ZHdK). While I am so excited for
what I have ahead of me, I will greatly miss
the CHP at Illinois. It has been a wonderful
four years being a part of this program.”
MIKE GAPINSKE (ENG Bioengineering)
– “I plan on continuing my education,
pursuing a PhD in Bioengineering. I’ve
GINO GIANNETTI (ENG Engineering Physics)
– “Beginning in September 2016, I will
be attending the University of California
- Santa Barbara for graduate studies in
biophysics. Until that time, I will visit
family and use my free time to study
for any upcoming qualifying exams.”
AUSTIN GRAF (LAS Physics) – “From
May through August I’ll be at Illinois
continuing my work in Paul Kwiat’s
quantum information lab. In late
August I’ll be moving to Rochester, NY,
to pursue my PhD in quantum optics
at the University of Rochester.”
MARY MARGARET HAPP (ACES Crop
Sciences) – “I am starting my PhD June 6th
ERIK D. KOUNTZ (LAS Physics) – “Starting
in the fall of 2016, I will attend Stanford
pursuing a PhD in experimental condensed
matter physics. During the summer, I
will be working at Northrop Grumman
on laser physics and finishing up my
undergraduate research with Professor
Alexey Bezryadin investigating the
potential technological limits and uses
of carbon sequestration in rock.”
GILAD MARGALIT (LAS Physics) – “After
May I will be continuing my education in
theoretical physics at a graduate program,
most likely at the Weizmann Institute of
Science in Rehovot, Israel. I plan to study
field theory and its applications to either
condensed matter or particle physics.
Ultimately, I’m interested in applying novel
mathematical methods to long-standing
physics problems. I’ve greatly enjoyed
my time in the CHP program, and I’m
thankful that I was able to participate in it.”
JULIA MCCARREN (FAA Music) – “I have
accepted my offer to enroll in the graduate
music therapy program at Western
Michigan University (Kalamazoo) and will
be attending in the fall! I will be working
towards a Master’s degree in Music Therapy.
Next year I have also accepted a TA position
in the Vocal Jazz department at WMU and
will be assisting with the vocal jazz ensemble
there. I have received a Music Therapy
graduate scholarship from WMU. Excited
for graduation and things to come!!”
at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.”
KIMBERLY HIRSCHHORN (LAS Statistics)
– “Beginning in May 2016, I will be
interning at Blue Cross Blue Shield in
Chicago, and then next fall, I’ll be attending
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor for
my master’s degree in biostatistics.”
KATERINA HOLAN (ACES Crop Sciences) – “I
will be going to Iowa State University in the
fall to study Predictive Plant Phenomics
in their Plant Biology program.”
ALEX NATHAN KAHN (ENG Mechanical
Engineering) – “This summer I plan to
get my private pilot license, skydive,
and intern at the NASA Marshall Space
Flight Center Space Hardware/Robotics
Academy. This fall I will attend Stanford
University as a Research Assistant.”
CHP graduate Amanda Murphy
presents her research at SAS
AMANDA MURPHY (LAS Atmospheric Sciences)
– “Starting this fall, I will be attending
graduate school at the University of
Oklahoma, focusing on dual-polarization
radar and cloud microphysics.”
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OBINNA O. ONYEMEPU (ENG Mechanical
lessons, so that my students will have a truly
holistic learning experience similar to the
education I have received from participating
in a wide variety of CHP courses.”
Engineering) – “After graduation, I will
begin graduate studies at Stanford
University and will be working towards
a PhD in Mechanical Engineering.”
JEFFREY D. PEKOSH (ENG Aerospace
Engineering) – “I will be attending
JOHN W. SMITH (ENG Materials Science
and Engineering) – “In the fall, I plan to
pursue a Ph.D in Materials Science and
Engineering, either here at the University
of Illinois or at Northwestern University
(I’m still in the process of deciding).”
SARAH TUCKER (LAS Molecular and Cellular
Biology) – “I have decided to attend Harvard
graduate school at Purdue where I have
received the Ross Fellowship. I will be
pursuing my PhD in Aeronautics and
Astronautics, with a research focus in
Astrodynamics and Space Applications.
This summer I will be interning at the
Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA until
school starts up again in August.”
this fall to pursue my PhD in their Biological
and Biomedical Sciences program (BBS).”
ANA PETRACOVICI (LAS Molecular and
attending Georgia Institute of Technology
as a Master’s student working in the
Aerodynamics System Design Lab.”
Cellular Biology) – “I have decided to
begin my PhD journey this fall at the
University of Pennsylvania in the Genetics
and Gene Regulation PhD program,
where I hope to investigate epigenetic
mechanisms of gene expression in
development. Before that, I hope to take
advantage of my last free summer and
travel to Romania to visit with family.”
ANDREW J. UNANDER (ENG Civil
Engineering) – “I am pursuing a Masters of
Engineering degree at MIT for structural
engineering, beginning this fall.”
KYLE WEISKIRCHER (ENG Aerospace
Engineering) – “Next Fall I will be
JOHN WHITMAN (LAS Physics) – “I just
accepted to The Ohio State University for a
PhD in physics. I’m excited and I can’t wait.
I plan to do work with either ferroelectric
and perovskite materials, or controlled
manipulation of cells and cell components.”
TEACHING & OTHER SERVICE
SARAH ALTSHULER (FAA Music Education)
– “This summer, I will be working as
a music specialist at Olin Sang Ruby
Union Institute, a summer camp, so
I will be planning and teaching music
programming to campers. After the
summer, I hope to teach general music at
an elementary school in the Chicago area.”
SAMANTHA GEORGE (LAS Molecular and
Cellular Biology) – “Next year I will be
participating in CityYear, a year-long
program through AmeriCorps that allows
individuals to work in middle or high
schools in underserved areas in the US. I
will be working in a school in Jacksonville,
Florida for a year. Afterwards, I’ll be
continuing my journey to becoming a
physician by attending medical school.”
CATHERINE J. KEMP (ACES Natural Resources
and Environmental Sciences) – “From May to
August, I will be riding my bike across the
country as the ride leader for the Illini 4000
Bike America Team, which raises money
for cancer research and patient support
services while documenting the American
cancer experience through the Portraits
Project. In the fall, I’m hoping to start a
year of service with AmeriCorps while I
explore options for graduate school.”
CHP graduate Sarah Altshuler
DANIEL PETRISKO (ENG Computer
Engineering) – “After graduation, I
will be interning at Intel Corporation
as a Device Design Engineer before
returning to attend graduate school. I
will be pursuing a PhD in Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Illinois.”
GILLIAN P. SMITH (ENG Bioengineering)
– “After graduation, I will be attending
graduate school at Emory University in the
Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta for
a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology.”
KATHERINE BORA (LAS History) – “After
graduation, I will preparing to for my
future teaching career in the suburbs of
Chicago and will be a substitute teacher for
District 214 through the summer.”
– “Beginning in May I will be searching
for teaching positions as a choral music
educator, and am planning to teach in the
Fall of 2016. I will also continue to maintain
a private voice studio of several middle
school and high school aged students.”
OTHER ADVENTURES
NICHOLAS H. BALKO (ENG General
Engineering) – “Directly after graduation I
will have the summer off, and then in August
I will start work at Cognizant Technology
Solutions as an Associate Engineering
and Manufacturing Solutions Analyst.”
JEREMY LOUI (FAA Music Education) –
“This fall I will be teaching band in the
Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district.
I will have various curricular and
extracurricular teaching responsibilities,
and will see approximately 200 students,
5th through 12th grade each day.”
serve with AmeriCorps for a year in order to
help those in need within the United States.
I will be applying to medical school in June
2016 with the goal of attending in fall 2017.”
EVANGELIA PAGONES (FAA Music Education)
– “Starting in August, I will begin my career
as a music teacher! I will teach 4-8th grade
orchestra students at Churchville Middle
School in Elmhurst! In my classroom I hope
to integrate many subjects into my music
after graduation. I am still searching for
a job, but I am hoping to be working
as an actuary in the Chicago-land area,
or somewhere in the Midwest.”
JOSHUA C. CAMP (ENG Computer
Science) – “I have accepted a full time
offer to be a Software Engineer at
Google. I’ll start in July at their office
in Manhattan, New York City.”
– “Immediately after graduation, I’ll
be traveling to Bolivia to volunteer for
prosthetics. The clinic is called the
Bolivian Prosthetics Foundation, and I’ll
be there in La Paz for 7 weeks. In August,
I begin working with Epic in a Technical
Services roll, in Madison, Wisconsin.”
AMANDA DEL TORO (BUS Marketing and
Supply Chain Management) – “After graduation
I will be working full-time for Nestle in their
Supply Chain Development Program. It’s
a rotational program where I will get to
rotate through multiple roles and locations
in the Supply Chain and Procurement
departments of the company. I’m moving to
Los Angeles, California! I’m very excited.”
COLTON J. CANNON (ENG Computer
Science) – “I am moving out to the Silicon
Valley to take a full time position at Pure
Storage. Pure Storage is an enterprise
data storage startup focusing on flash
storage. I will be starting as a member
of their technical staff this July.”
a job as a Production Engineer at
Lam Research in Fremont, CA.”
CHRISTINE M. CURRIE (ENG Industrial
CHP graduate Nicholas Connolly
PRITAM D. BHATTARAI (ENG Materials
Science and Engineering) – “After graduation,
CHP graduate Evangelia Pagones
BENJAMIN BOLAND (LAS Actuarial
Science) – “My plan is to start working
GRACE DEETJEN (ENG Bioengineering)
NICHOLAS CONNOLLY (LAS Chemical
Engineering) – “I have just accepted
SARAH OSMULSKI (LAS Molecular and Cellular
Biology) – “Beginning in May 2016, I hope to
JENNA H. ARONSON (EDUC Special Education)
– “This semester, I student taught at Walter
Payton College Prep High School in Chicago
Public Schools in a functional life skills
classroom. In May right after graduation,
I am going to travel in Europe because I
was not able to study abroad during my
undergraduate education. Beginning in
the fall, I will be teaching 12th grade math
as a special education teacher at Intrinsic
Schools, a charter school in Chicago. I am
extremely excited for this opportunity!”
MEGAN WARREN (FAA Music Education)
auditions. I will hopefully continue work as
a research assistant in a UIUC toxicology
and mutagenicity lab over the next year
as I decide whether or not to pursue a
Masters in Vocal Performance in Europe.”
be traveling as much as possible over
the summer before I start my career
as a Strategy Consultant for Bain &
Company in the fall of 2016.”
ANDREW CURTIS (ENG Materials Science
and Engineering) – “Starting in June, I
I am very excited to be working full time
as an R&D Scientist with the Clorox
Co. I will be starting a new adventure
in the San Francisco Bay area where I
will be working to better design, create,
and package everyday products to help
everyday people. Eventually, I hope to
return to graduate school, but for now, I
am excited for a long awaited break!”
will be working just outside of Boston
in the town of Bedford, MA. There I
will serve as a Systems Engineer for the
Emerging Technologies Division of the
MITRE Corporation. I hope to begin
working towards a graduate degree
in systems engineering as well.”
NICHOLAS M. BINKUS (ENG General
Engineering) – “After graduation, I will be
a full-time job as an analyst for Allstate
Insurance Company in Chicago, IL
beginning August 2016. I’ll be working
in their Product Operations division
to help price insurance products.”
KATHERINE BOKENKAMP (FAA Voice) – “I
will be staying in the area to continue
studies with my voice teacher, and traveling
for opera, musical theatre, and film
MARJORIE DALLMANN (ENG
Computer Engineering) – “I will have a
working as a Business Technology Analyst at
Deloitte Consulting LLP. I start at Deloitte
in July 2016 and will be based in Chicago.”
WARREN D’SOUZA (LAS Economics and
Actuarial Science) – “I will be beginning
full-time job somewhere, most likely
focusing on computer security.”
CHP graduate Sanjit Dutta
SANJIT DUTTA (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
– “After graduation, I am taking a couple
of months off before my full-time job
starts. I am planning on travelling to India
and Europe to visit family and explore. I
am also hoping to make a trip to the Fiji
Islands. Beginning in August I will be
moving to New York City and starting a
full-time job with PricewaterhouseCoopers
as a Technology Consulting Associate.”
KIMBERLY GASICIEL (LAS Psychology)
– “I will be pursuing a voice acting
career in Chicago.”
CONNOR W. GOODING (ENG Electrical
Engineering) – “After graduation, I am
starting work as a Quality Assurance Analyst
for Cognizant Technology Solutions, a
Fortune 500 consulting firm. I am looking
to start in August, but I may be starting in
June. If I get the later start date, I’m looking
to spend the summer interning with my
church and going to Wrigley Field as many
times as possible to watch my Cubbies.”
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ELIJAH HARRISON (LAS Physics) – “I will be
MEGAN SCHARLAU (LAS History) – “May
working at Six Flags Great America starting
in May, but that is subject to change.”
DYLAN HOYER (LAS Economics and History) –
“While my plans are still in flux, I intend to
continue with my grocery-delivery startup
on campus. But more importantly, in
June I will be marrying my best friend and
fellow CHP’er April Young (senior, BUS
Accountancy; and Information Systems
and Information Technology) and moving
to Chicago, IL.” For more information,
see CHaPel of Love item on page 32.
MATTHEW JORDAN (ENG Computer
Engineering) – “I’m hoping to do some
travelling starting a few weeks after
graduation. Right now it looks like I
will visit South Korea, Japan and Hong
Kong. Then, starting in August I will be
working at Wolverine Trading in Chicago
as an FPGA Verification Engineer.”
IAN LEE (LAS Mathematics and Computer
Science) – “After graduation, I plan on
enjoying one last summer break full of
leisure and travel before starting work
in August as a Software Developer for
Epic Systems in Madison, WI.”
CHP graduate Robert Moss
graduation, I will be taking the summer
off to relax before beginning my full-time
position as a Financial Analyst for State
Farm Insurance in August in BloomingtonNormal, IL. For the entire month of June,
I am traveling to Thailand and Laos to
volunteer with a non-profit organization
teaching elementary age kids English and
working on various construction projects.”
AMY KLOBUCHAR (LAS Linguistics) – “I
am currently looking for jobs in both the
tech sector and library, and I hope to start
work as soon as possible. I have several
years of experience at the Illinois library
and am considering it as a field, because
there is a good mix of academic knowledge
and social knowledge required. In regards
to the tech sector, I am applying for jobs
as a linguistic engineer or researcher for
several well-known online companies.”
EMILY SCHROEDER (LAS Actuarial Science)
ALYSSA MARTINEZ (ENG Civil Engineering) –
“After graduation in May, I will be starting as
a Digital Analyst at Accenture in Chicago.”
ANNA MAST (ENG Materials Science and
Engineering) – “Starting over the summer
I will be going to work at Toyota as a
Material Quality Specialist in Erlanger,
KY and then eventually moving to Plano,
Texas when the company moves.”
MICHAEL S. MILLER (ENG Aerospace
Engineering) – “After graduation, I’m
going to spend the summer in Europe
and then start working as a Systems
Engineer at Raytheon in Indianapolis.”
ALEC J. MORI (ENG Computer Science) –
“Starting in August, I will be working at
Yelp as a data engineer in San Francisco!
Until then I plan to visit Barcelona and
just have one last relaxing summer before
I go be a full-time adult. I hope to expand
some personal projects then as well.”
WYATT R. KAHLE (LAS Mathematics) – “After
2016 and beyond I’ll be moving to Chicago
and working in an office somewhere,
probably doing title insurance.”
CHP graduate Emily Schroeder
BRIDGET O’BRIEN (ENG Civil Engineering) –
“This summer, I will be taking some time
to travel with friends and family. In the
fall, I will be starting work at Accenture
in Chicago as a technology consultant.”
MATTHEW RASMUSSEN (ENG Computer
Science) – “After graduation, I will be
working at Google in Seattle, most
likely on Google Maps for iOS.”
KATIE M. REITER (LAS Economics) – “After
graduation I plan to spend a few weeks
backpacking with a friend in South-East
Asia. In August I will begin working for
strategy consulting firm Roland Berger as a
Junior Consultant in their Chicago office.”
ROBERT MOSS (BUS Finance, LAS Statistics
OLIVIA ROGERS (ENG Materials Science
and Economics) – “I have started work
and Engineering) – “After graduation, I will
for Quantitative Risk Management, a
firm which offers software, research, and
consulting to financial institutions. I am
a Risk Management Associate, meaning
that I am on the primary consulting
team for clients. I plan to sit for the
CERA (Actuarial) exams, and apply for
UChicago’s Financial Mathematics master’s
program within the next few years.”
be wrapping up my work with Serionix, a
startup company in Research Park. Then,
I will be traveling in Europe with friends
before moving to New York to begin a job in
management consulting with Accenture.”
ATHREY E. NADHAN (ENG Mechanical
BENJAMIN ROSENBERG (LAS Chemical
REBECCA NOTHOF (ENG Civil Engineering)
– “In January 2016 I will be traveling to
South America before heading to Houston
in February. I will begin full time work
as a construction engineer for Shell.”
SANA SINGH (LAS Global Studies) – “I
will be joining the Finance and Risk
Management team of Thomson Reuters
in Chicago full-time, starting in July!”
NATHAN STABLES (LAS Integrative Biology) –
“From 6/6-8/28/16 I will be completing a
Natural Resources internship at the MarshBillings-Rockefeller National Historical
Park in Woodstock, Vermont. This position
is through the Student Conservation
Association (SCA), NPS, and AmeriCorps.
After this, I am still looking for full-time
positions and possibly grad school later on.”
ERIC M. STANISZEWSKI (ENG Mechanical
Engineering) – “I will be working
as a Technical Problem Solver for
DAN SAPATO (ENG Computer Science) – “I
will be moving to Los Angeles and working
as a Software Engineer at Google.”
JEFFREY TOLAR (ENG Computer Engineering)
– “I’m planning to start full time at Yahoo!
(in Research Park) in early/mid-July.”
JASON C. TROUTNER (ENG Mechanical
Engineering) – “After graduation I will
JORDAN ALEXANDER WILLIAMS (ACES
Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences) –
“I will officially be working as a RAY Marine
Conservation Diversity Fellow with the
Environmental Defense Fund’s Fisheries
Solution Center in Boston for an entire
year starting this June! I am so excited!”
begin working full time as the Chief
Technology Officer of Cast21, a startup
I founded with the help of two of
my colleagues in engineering.”
– “I will be working at Epic Systems
Corporation starting September 2016.”
SHRUTI VAIDYA (ENG Computer
Engineering) – “I will be traveling for the
Information Systems and Information Technology)
first few weeks, and then beginning work
at Rockwell Collins in July.”
DEREK VIDOVIC (ENG Computer Science)
– “After I graduate, I’ll be working at
a tech job in Minneapolis. (Cold!)”
MADELINE M. WHITESELL (FAA Voice)
– “This summer I will be attending
the Yale School of Drama’s directing
MATTHEW C. YANG (ENG Computer Science)
APRIL YOUNG (BUS Accountancy; and
– “After graduation, I will be working at
KPMG as an Information Technology Audit
Consultant in Chicago. I am hoping to
become a Certified Public Accountant by
the end of the year. In June, I’ll be getting
married to Dylan Hoyer, another CHP
graduate who I met during Convocation
our freshman year.” For more information,
see CHaPel of Love item on page 32.
KEVIN CHENG (freshman, LAS Biochemistry
and Economics) joined the Illio Yearbook staff
Association (NSSLHA), she was on the
James Scholar Advisory Board, and
she participated in LeaderShape®.
NICK KORTENDICK (junior, ENG
Computer Science) was Senior Fellow
Science) in 4/16: “I’m interning at Facebook
in 2015, and became the Director of Health
Needs for Volunteer Illini Projects in 2016.
for the Margolis Market Information
Lab in Academic Year 2015 – 2016;
MICHAEL TORNARITIS (sophomore, BUS
Curriculum Unassigned) and ERIC ZHANG
(junior, BUS Finance) were also Fellows.
Engineering) – “I will be working as a Supply
Chain Associate for Pepsico in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa following graduation. Before I work,
I will be travelling across Europe, going to
a few cities in Italy, then France, Germany,
and hitting a few smaller Eastern countries
like Austria and the Czech Republic. Right
after I get back, it’s straight to work.”
GARY W. SZETO (ENG Computer Engineering)
– “After May 2016, I’m going to go to
Hong Kong to visit family and possibly
travel around Asia in June. Afterwards,
I will be starting full-time in June for
Capital One as a Data Engineer!”
workshop, where I will be learning
about theatre and opera directing. In
the winter, I will be interning at the
Prototype Opera Festival in New York
City working for the opera production
company ‘Beth Morrison Productions.’”
CONTINUING CHANCELLOR’S SCHOL ARS
ANNIE RONG (ENG Computer Science)
– “I will start working at Google as a
Software Developer on their Cloud
Platform in August 2016. I will be in San
Francisco and I’m incredibly excited!”
be working as an engineer at Northrop
Grumman in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. I
will then be pursuing a company-sponsored,
part-time Masters in Engineering followed
by a company-sponsored, part-time
Master’s in Business Administration.”
– “After graduation, I will be moving to
Chicago, Illinois for the first time to start
work as an actuary at Anthem, Inc. Before
I start, however, I have plans for a family
vacation in Florida and two weekend
trips with my college friends to see many
of the tourist attractions in Chicago.”
Epic, a healthcare software company
up in Madison, Wisconsin.”
Chancellor’s Scholar Lauren Brooks
LAUREN BROOKS (sophomore, LAS
Global Studies) has been a Treasurer,
Performer, and Choreographer for
Illini Student Musicals, including Rocky
Horror Picture Show in conjunction with
the Art Theater in October 2016.
HAOXUAN (HENRY) LI (junior, BUS
Accountancy) has served as a Strategic
Operations Consultant for Illinois
Business Consulting, and as a
Leadership Paraprofessional for the
Illinois Leadership Center®.
SILVIA MARTIN (sophomore, AHS Speech and
Hearing Science and LAS Spanish) served as
Treasurer of the 2015 - 2016 National
Student Speech-Language-Hearing
VASSIL MLADENOV (junior, ENG Computer
in a couple weeks and then Apple in the fall.”
AASHAY PATEL (sophomore, ENG
Bioengineering) was President and KYLE
SUMMERVILLE (junior, BUS Management)
served as Treasurer for Students
Empowering Education, and in their
roles, they helped organize mini-courses
for high school students through
SPLASH@UIUC in October 2015.
MADISON ROSS-RYAN (junior, FAA Graphic
Design) is serving as Vice President of
Communications for Student Alumni
Ambassadors in 2016. BRIDGET O’BRIEN
(senior, ENG Civil Engineering) was Vice
President of Homecoming in 2015, and
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IN THE NEWS
CONTINUING CHANCELLOR ’S SCHOL ARS CONTINUED
ANJANA KRISHNAN (junior, ACES Natural
Resources and Environmental Sciences) was
Vice President of Outreach in 2015.
ROSS SKELLY (junior, LAS Molecular
and Cellular Biology) was Treasurer for
Habitat for Humanity this past year,
and he will serve as their President
in Academic Year 2016 – 2017.
RACHEL SMITH (sophomore, LAS Physics)
Chancellor’s Scholar Rachel Smith
will be traveling to Los Angeles and
working with UCLA professors on
nuclear physics research from June to
August. I am really looking forward to
exploring the UCLA campus as well as
the greater LA area while I am there.”
GARRET WATERSTRADT (sophomore,
AHS Kinesiology) was a member of the
2015 – 2016 I-LEAP Advisory Board.
in 3/16: “I have been accepted into
UCLA’s 10-week summer physics NSF
REU program (research experience for
undergraduates). I am really excited! I
SR. STEPHANIE BALIGA (5/10 alumna, LAS
Geography and International Studies) was
featured in a 9/30/15 Wall Street Journal
article entitled “A Nun on the Run” about
her quest to finish the Bank of America
Chicago Marathon fast enough to qualify
for the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials.”
PAT BASU (5/00 alumnus, ENG Mechanical
Engineering) was named as an External
Committee Member for the new
Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s
Dean Search Committee in 2015.
CHP graduates Madeline Whitesell and Katherine Bokenkamp (pictured left and center)
CATHERINE KEMP (senior, ACES Natural
Resources and Environmental Sciences)
UNDERGR ADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
The 9th Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS) and
Illinois Scholars Undergraduate Research Symposium (ISUR)
took place during Undergraduate Research Week from
April 17-23, 2016 in the Illini Union and other locations.
Undergraduate Research Symposium
(URS) or URS Week presenters:
VINCENT ABEJUELA, senior, LAS
Molecular and Cellular Biology
MADISON BARKER, senior, LAS
HANNAH BOHN, sophomore,
EDUC Elementary Education
Chancellor’s Scholars presented or co-presented their research
at these events. For more information on student presentations,
go to http://undergradresearch.illinois.edu/researchweek.html
ELIJAH KARVELIS, sophomore,
LAS Chemical Engineering
JORDAN WILLIAMS, senior, ACES Natural
Resources and Environmental Sciences
ERIK KOUNTZ, senior, LAS Physics
Illinois Scholars Undergraduate
AUBREY LASKOWSKI, freshman, LAS
Mathematics and Computer Science
Research Symposium
KATHERINE LINCOLN, senior,
LAS Integrative Biology
(ISUR) presenters:
GRACE DEETJEN, senior, ENG Bioengineering
ALISHBA REHMAN, freshman, LAS Biochemistry
GABRIELLE RICCIO, senior,
ACES Animal Science
EMILY CROSS (12/12 alumna, LAS
Earth Systems, Environment, and Society)
LAURA OLANDER, freshman, LAS Biology
KARLI ROBINSON, senior,
ACES Animal Sciences
KATERINA HOLAN, senior, ACES Crop Sciences
ZHUOLI HUANG, junior, LAS Biochemistry
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entitled “Embrace the Spirit of
Discovering Yourself” in 3/16.
as one of the first class of graduates of
Lincoln Scholars. “I think the Lincoln
scholars program for me, has really
been an opportunity for us who may
not have had the privilege of attending
college to say, ‘Hey I’m here, I belong
here and I’m going to make the absolute
most of my time here,’” Colon said.
AMANDA MURPHY, senior,
LAS Atmospheric Sciences
AMANDA COWFER, sophomore, LAS
Chemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology
R. DAVIS BORN (5/15 alumnus, ENG
Mechanical Engineering) was featured
in an online UI Illinois Success story
MAX COLON (senior, LAS Spanish and
Psychology) was featured in LAS News
GRACE LIU, freshman, EDUC
Elementary Education
JEREMY LOUI, senior, FAA Music Education
Chancellor’s Scholar Amanda Cowfer
presents poster at URS
CHP Graduate Catherine Kemp
PARRISH SMITH, sophomore,
ACES Crop Sciences
MADELINE SPONHOLTZ,
sophomore, LAS Chemistry
NATHAN STABLES, senior,
ASHTON TOWNSLEY, junior,
CHP graduate Alex Kahn at ISUR
ALEX NATHAN KAHN, senior,
ENG Mechanical Engineering
THOMAS MCGRATH, junior,
ENG Engineering Mechanics
CHARLES TIERNEY, junior, ENG
Mechanical Engineering
was interviewed by WCIA-3 News
in 4/16 about the Dump and Run
Program at the University YMCA. She
is currently serving as the University
YMCA’s Development Director.
participated in Illini 4000 for the second
time in Summer 2016, cycling from
New York to San Francisco. Illini 4000’s
mission (as written on http://illini4000.
org) is “The Illini 4000 is a non-profit
organization dedicated to the fight against
cancer, the support of those affected by
cancer, and the documentation of how
cancer impacts the lives of Americans.”
In May 2016, she was quoted in an
Albany news story at WNYT.com.
SAMUEL LEROY (sophomore, BUS Marketing
and Management) and Committee Chair MARK
SCHAER (junior, BUS Marketing and Business
Process Management) were interviewed on
WCIA-3 News and other news venues in
May 2016 about the Illinois Student Senate’s
efforts to seek student and community
input to initiate a new UI mascot.
BO LU (5/04 alumnus, ENG Computer
Science) featured in 12/16/15 Fortune story
entitled “Brokers and Advisers Fight for
Millennials Money,” which details his
co-founding in 2010 of FutureAdvisor,
an online investment platform that uses
algorithms to direct users’ savings to
diversified exchange-traded funds. In an
effort to reach younger investors, BlackRock
bought FutureAdvisor in August 2015.
ANNE (SHIVERS) LUKEMAN (5/09 alumna,
LAS History) served on a UI panel for
KIMBERLY GASICIEL (senior, LAS Psychology)
History Careers Night on 9/17/15. Anne
is Coordinator of Video Productions
for the UI Office of Public Affairs.
PIERCE HADLEY (senior, ENG Bioengineering)
JASON TROUTNER (senior, ENG Mechanical
Engineering) was featured in Chicago Inno
Streetwise in February 2016 in “Three UIUC
directed The New Revel Players’ production
of I Hate Hamlet in October 2015.
was featured in a full page story about the
first cohort of the Illinois Cancer Scholars
Program in the Fall 2015 issue of Postmarks.
Engineering Students Are Reinventing
the Cast,” detailing the students’ startup,
called Cast21, to use a proprietary
application process to immobilize bones
through a waterproof material that forms
to the patients’ body, while giving the
skin room to breathe – and, if used along
with electrical stimulation therapy, may
help bones mend faster than average.
A.J. UNANDER (senior, ENG Civil Engineering)
was the Secretary of the U.S. Green Building
Council Students group at UI, and in April
he helped host the 3rd Annual Student
Sustainable Initiatives Symposium (SSIS).
In addition to many other performances
on-campus and elsewhere, KATHERINE
BOKENKAMP (senior, FAA Voice) and
MADELINE WHITESELL (senior, FAA
Voice) performed in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream together.
Five Chancellor’s Scholars attended a
conference in Rome through their ABE 199
class with PRASANTA KALITA with financial
support from the CHP, the Department of
Agricultural and Biological Engineering,
and the College of ACES: ALEX BROCKAMP
(freshman, ACES Agricultural and Biological
Engineering), KARA BROCKAMP (freshman,
ACES Agricultural and Biological Engineering),
MATTHEW NIEWIARA (sophomore, ACES
Agricultural and Biological Engineering),
CHELSEA PETERSON (freshman, ACES
Agricultural and Biological Engineering),
and ALYSSA VOLLAND (junior, ACES
Animal Sciences). When they returned,
their blog entries were posted at https://
ugresearchjournals.illinois.edu/index.php/
iaces/index, and additional blog items were
also posted at the ADM Institute for the
Prevention of Postharvest Loss website.
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CAMPUS HONORS PROGR AM AWARD WINNERS 2015 -16
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL
SCHOLARSHIPS & HONORS
Fulbright Grant (national, all expense for one
year of graduate study or research abroad)
MELODY GRACE CHUA, senior,
FAA Instrumental Music
Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Foundation
Scholarship (national, for sophomores and
juniors in fields related to the environment)
LAUREN J. HALL, senior, ACES
Food Science and Human Nutrition
Harold W. Colvin Undergraduate
Leadership Award (University YMCA)
FINALISTS IN NATIONAL
COMPETITIONS
ANDREW (DREW) BELL, 5/14
alumnus, ENG Mechanical Engineering
ANTHONY J. BRUNO, 5/14 alumnus,
Fulbright U.K. Summer Institutes
(national, for undergraduates)
SEAN W. MCLAUGHLIN, 5/15
alumnus, ENG Engineering Physics
SHERYL WANG, 5/15 alumna,
ENG Bioengineering
SILVIA MARTIN, sophomore, AHS Speech
and Hearing Science and LAS Spanish
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
(national award for juniors and seniors
with outstanding research potential in
mathematics, science, and engineering)
ELIJAH KARVELIS, sophomore,
Hollings, Ernest F., Scholarship (National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Graduate Research Fellowship (three
years of support toward advanced
research-based degrees)
SAMANTHA GEORGE, senior,
LAS Molecular and Cellular Biology
KENNETH A. HOFFMANN, junior,
SANA SINGH, senior,
LAS Global Studies and Sociology
CHP graduate Samantha George
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Graduate Research Fellowship (three
years of support toward advanced
research-based degrees)
Chancellor’s Scholar Silvia Martin
City Year Program (full-time work
in community service projects,
affiliated with AmeriCorps)
REGIONAL, STATE, AND
ALL-CAMPUS AWARDS
SARAH TUCKER, 12/15 alumna,
CHP graduate Kimberly Hirschhorn
JENNA H. ARONSON, senior,
EDUC Special Education
CONNOR S. BAILEY, senior,
ENG Materials Science and Engineering
PRITAM DEV BHATTARAI, senior,
NICHOLAS MICHAEL BINKUS,
senior, ENG General Engineering
FAA Music Education
SEAN ZWICKY, sophomore, AHS Kinesiology
AmeriCorps Program (full-time work
senior, LAS Statistics
in community service projects)
DYLAN L. HOYER, senior,
CATHERINE KEMP, senior, ACES Natural
LAS Economics and History
SARA OSMULSKI, senior,
CATHERINE JEAN KEMP, senior,
ACES Natural Resources and
Asian American Cultural Center
Environmental Sciences
Leadership Award
ERIK D. KOUNTZ, senior, LAS Physics
GARY SZETO, senior,
IAN C. LEE, senior, LAS Mathematics
ENG Computer Engineering
& Computer Science
Bronze Tablet (University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, top 3% of
each college’s graduating class)
MEGAN M. WARREN, senior,
LAUREN ELIZABETH SCHATZ, sophomore,
LAS Communications and Political Science
KIMBERLY ERIN HIRSCHHORN,
JULIA A. MCCARREN, senior, FAA Music
ROBERT BENJAMIN MOSS, senior, LAS
Economics and Statistics and BUS Finance
AMANDA MARIE MURPHY, senior,
Better World By Design Challenge
Winner (Distinct Media 2015)
RAJASI RASTOGI, junior,
FAA Industrial Design
Campus Award for Excellence in Public
ATHREY E. NADHAN, senior,
Engagement (Office of the Chancellor, for
leadership in community service) OBINNA ODINAKACHI ONYEMEPU,
senior, ENG Mechanical Engineering
EVANGELIA M. PAGONES,
MAXWELL COLON, senior,
LAS Psychology and Spanish
ISAAC CARRASQUILLO, senior,
ENG Engineering Physics
senior, FAA Music Education
Capital Scholar (selected to present
ANA F. PETRACOVICI, senior,
research at state-wide event)
MELODY G. CHUA, senior, FAA Music
EWAN SCOTT ROBINSON, 12/07
MARJORIE F. DALLMANN, 12/15
alumna, ENG Computer Engineering
UMBERTO JAY RAVAIOLI, senior,
SANJIT DUTTA, senior,
KARLIE N. ROBINSON, senior,
CONNOR S. BAILEY, senior,
alumnus, ACES Natural Resources
and Environmental Sciences
SHYAM M. SALADI, 5/14 alumnus,
ENG Electrical Engineering; and
SAMANTHA S. GEORGE, senior,
ENG Electrical Engineering
Dads Association Scholarship
(University of Illinois)
Children of Veterans Scholarship
(national four-year full-tuition award)
HANNAH L. SIMMONS, senior,
MADISON BARKER, senior,
AHS Speech and Hearing Science
Distinguished Service Award
(University YMCA)
CATHERINE J. KEMP, senior, ACES Natural
Employee of the Year (Campus Recreation)
BRIDGET O’BRIEN, senior,
ENG Civil Engineering
Illinois for Illinois (I4I) Study Abroad
Undergraduate Student Scholarships
(International Programs and Studies)
EDUC Elementary Education
GRETA DODEN, sophomore,
LUCIA DUNDERMAN, sophomore,
ACES Agricultural and Biological Engineering
SHUNHUA FU, junior, ENG Computer Science
AASHAY PATEL, sophomore,
ENG Bioengineering
LAURA SCHULTZ, sophomore,
DGS Undeclared
Illinois Innovation Prize Finalist
(Technology Entrepreneur Center)
JASON C. TROUTNER, senior,
Hellenic-Link Midwest Scholarship
EVANGELIA PAGONES, senior,
FAA Music Education
Hoeft Technology and Management
Program (minor for engineering
and business students)
NICHOLAS BINKUS, senior,
ENG General Engineering
NICHOLAS CONNOLLY, senior,
CHRISTINE M. CURRIE, senior,
ENG Industrial Engineering
ANDREW CURTIS, senior,
DANIEL PETRISKO, senior,
Homecoming Court (all-campus, comprised
of 10 top male and female leaders)
CHP graduate Nicholas Balko
Leadership Certificate (earned through
the Illinois Leadership® Center)
NICHOLAS H. BALKO, senior,
Leung Student Venture Fund Award
JASON TROUTNER, senior,
“List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by
Their Students” (all-campus distinction)
GINO GIANNETTI, senior,
KRISTEN CANTIERI, 5/15
alumna, BUS Accountancy
JOHN WHITMAN, senior, LAS Physics
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CHP alum Katrina Bromann and Art Riewaldt at
the CHP 25th Anniversary Celebration
CHP alum Matt Macomber
THANKS TO THESE GENEROUS DONORS FOR THEIR SUPPORT TO THE CHP
July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016
With these gifts we can continue to offer quality programming to Chancellor’s Scholars. *All donors marked with an asterisk have given previously
$2,500 and up ~ Director’s Level
* Dr. Eugene E. and Antonia A. Beiriger
* Roderick C. and Julie (Nochumson, 1991 alumna) Berthold
* Jeof McAllister (1994 alumnus, matched by The Boeing Company)
* Dr. Jonathan T. and Sarah L. (McKibben, 2001 alumna) Black
$1000-2,499 ~ Highest Honors Level
* Cara S. (Blonz, 1991 alumna) and Michael W. DeGraff
* Jeanne M. Gatto (2006 alumna)
* Karen L. and Frederick R. Kelroy – Keith Kelroy Convocation Fund
* Dr. J. Michael and Barbara Jane Moore
(matched by ExxonMobil Foundation)
Dr. Jeremy R. Nighohossian (2006 alumnus)
$500-999 ~ High Honors Level
* Bevan Dobberpuhl and Anne Marie Conry (2002 alumna)
* Stephen Chenney and Dr. Christine E. Heitsch
(1994 alumna, matched by Google)
* Zuleqa and Khizer Husain (1998 alumnus)
* Thomas A. Insel (1995 alumnus, matched by Sony Corporation)
* Michael A. Jorda (1997 alumnus)
* Kristine (Klinger, 2010 alumna) and David Kijowski (2010 alumnus)
* Amanda K. (Leonard, 2000 alumna) Benjamin
H. Shanbaum (2001 alumnus)
Julie M. and Andrew R. Tucker
* B. Joseph (CHP faculty member) and Mary P. White
* Timothy J. Allison (2001 alumnus)
* Jordan C. Axelson (2010 alumna)
* David E. Beckman (1992 alumnus)
Donors helped the Campus Honors
Program with many initiatives
that directly impact students:
• CHP entirely funded the Honors
Student Council 2015 – 2016
Academic Year budget with gift
funds, including the Semi-Formal,
5 Power Lunches (including two
with alums), Regression Day,
Fortnight programs, game days,
Equinox printing, two Fred Talk
evenings, the Halloween Party, and
December’s Holiday Open House.
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faculty member) and Jayne A. Burkhardt, Jr. – Calvin Ke
Memorial Fund and Keith Kelroy Convocation Fund
* Matthew G. Byron (2000 alumnus)
• Gifts supported the Fall Apple Lab
SAS, the Spring Chocolate Lab
SAS, the FBI SAS, the Freshman
Cookout, and some Field Trip
costs for CHP 395-Biocomplexity
with Bruce Fouke.
• The CHP gifts funded all the 2016
Summer Research Grants and
CHP Summer Travel Grants.
• Art supplies for student work
displayed throughout the
Honors House have been
covered through gift funds.
CHP Director Kim Graber announces Bruce Michelson Lounge
* Keith S. Labedz (2001 alumnus)
* John C. Zeman (2008 alumnus) and Kathleen M. Lenzini (2008 alumna)
* Karen J. and Ronald L. Larson, Sr.
* Dr. Michael Zielinski (1994 alumnus)
* David J. Luedtke (2010 alumnus)
$1-99 ~ Scholars Level
Matthew K. Macomber (2014 alumnus)
* Dr. Peter J. and Elizabeth M. March
Sara R. (Gibbs, 2008 alumna) and Prashant Mehta (2007 alumnus)
* Luiz F. Mendes (2008 alumnus, matched by Google)
* Dr. Christian Carrico (1992 alumnus)
* Daniel and Kelly A. (Paulini, 2004 alumna) Conroe
David A. Fike (2001 alumnus)
* Craig R. (1990 alumnus) and Caryn B. Caffarelli
Seth W. Orr (2012 alumnus) and Harrison A. Hakes
* Katherine L. Castree (2010 alumna)
* Joanne L. Pearlman (1997 alumna)
* Scott M. Catlett (1998 alumnus)
* Michael Collins (2003 alumnus)
* Caroline E. Cvetkovic (2011 alumna)
* Maureen V. Reagan (1991 alumna) and Bruce A. Zimmerman
* Dr. Carl L. Dohrman (2002 alumnus)
* Dr. Rachel E. Reem (2003 alumna)
* Max E. Ellithorpe (2011 alumnus)
Michael W. Roberson (1993 alumnus, matched
* Seth T. Gammon (2000 alumnus)
* Dr. Rebecca M. Harris (2005 alumna)
by Valero Energy Corporation)
* Karen S. Roll-Gardener (1990 alumna) and Brian
McSpadden Gardner (1992 alumnus)
* Steven L. (2011 alumnus), Scott J., and Terrie J. Kallal
Julie K. and Stephen P. Shaffer
* Jeffrey S. (1990 alumnus) and Hope W. Shamberg
* Neal K. Groothuis (2002 alumnus, matched by Google
* Sergei S. Shevlyagin (2008 alumnus)
and Benevity Community Impact Fund)
* Christopher D. and Whitney J. (Werich, 2001 alumna) Heard
* Dr. Chad R. Sears (1999 alumnus)
* Dr. Kim C. Graber (CHP Director and CHP faculty)
* Dr. Darrel (Emeritus CHP faculty member) and Cheryl Kesler
* Gloria and Dennis K. Lee (1990 alumnus)
* Sophia J. Lee (2008 alumna)
* Amy C. (Hill, 1996 alumna) and Daniel C. Tausk
* Kimiko Y. (Emeritus CHP faculty member) and Ken Gunji
Sarah E. Treece (2001 alumna, matched by Texas Instruments)
* Jeffrey M. Harshberger and Dr. Grace A. Giorgio (CHP faculty member)
Kevin M. Tsurutome (1989 alumnus)
* Kirk and Emily M. (Bloemer, 1995 alumna) Hartke
Angela M. Ulum and Todd R. Plotner (1995 alumnus)
* Professor Hans Heinrich Hock (CHP faculty
* Professor Thomas S. (CHP faculty member) and Julia B. Ulen
* Dr. Rhiannon N. Ardisana (2009 alumna) and Travis E. Cleveland
* Artillery G. Riewaldt and Katrina A. Bromann (2006 alumna)
* Roxanne A. Moore (2007 alumna)
* Carl M. (2007 alumnus) and Erin Press
* Ryan M. Collins (2006 alumnus)
Miguel A. Aleman (2008 alumnus)
* Cindy Casas and Stephen L. Bishop (1990 alumnus)
Benjamin A. Miller and Anni Hsia
* Robert A. Petersen (1998 alumnus)
* Sarah E. Losh (2009 alumna)
* Marie A. Mayer (2007 alumna)
* Ryan M. and Jennifer (Cutts, 2004 alumna) Mokos
* Deborah S. Plager (1995 alumna)
* James C. Vary, Jr. (1993 alumnus)
* Kristen Scoville (2005 alumna)
* Amy S. and Edward R. Hulina (1991 alumnus)
* Aimee and Kent A. Willetts (1993 alumnus)
* Alejandro D. Soejarto (1992 alumnus, matched by the Gartner Group)
James J. Jay (2002 alumnus)
* Dr. Thomas D. and Kay B. Wilson (matched by
* Jessica N. Sweet (2009 alumna)
member) and Dr. Zarina M. Hock
$100-499 ~ Honors Level
WHAT YOU SUPPORTED
* Professor Richard W. (Emeritus CHP Director and CHP
Chancellor’s Scholar Yuliya Semibratova asks Chaz
Ebert a question at Convocation
* Hsiang Lan Ke and Jeng Shyong Ke – Calvin Ke Memorial Fund
* Smita Kini (2001 alumna)
• 2015 Fall Convocation costs were
covered through gifts made to the
Kelroy and Unrestricted Funds.
• There have been some muchneeded repairs to the Honors House
(painting and new carpeting in the
lounge) and technology updates
in the classroom. The Honors
House Lounge has been dedicated
as the Bruce Michelson Lounge.
We thank all our donors for
this significant help to the
Campus Honors Program!
Carol A. (2002 alumna) and Andrew D. Wone
State Farm Companies Foundation)
* Whitney B. Wyckoff (2009 alumna)
* Ashley A. and Steve B. Wooden (2001 alumnus)
APPRECIATION OF NEW
ENDOWMENT SCHOLARSHIP
Special thanks are extended to
MATTHEW J. RODRIGUEZ (5/99
alumnus, LAS Physics and Mathematics) of
Larchmont, New York for his continued
pledge to support the creation of the
E. Graham Evans Scholarship, that
will be awarded in coming years.
ALUMNI RESPONSES TO “WHY I GIVE”
“ The CHP was a highlight
of my time at Illinois.”
“ The Campus Honors Program was the single
JAMES JAY (5/02 alumnus, LAS
Political Science and English)
most important group I was a part of while at
Illinois. I wouldn’t be where/who I am today
without them. I give back any way I can!”
“ MATTHEW MACOMBER (5/14 alumnus,
LAS Atmospheric Sciences)
I loved being a part of the
Campus Honors Program, and I
believe it provides a great value to
students and to the University.”
SETH ORR (5/12 alumnus,
ENG Computer Science)
“ “ CHP provided me
opportunities and funding
while I was a student.”
WHITNEY WYCKOFF
(5/09 alumna, MED
News-Editorial)
My study abroad experiences were some of the best times of my
life, and have helped me to get to where I am today. CHP helped
me afford my time abroad and I will always be grateful to them.”
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CAMPUS HONORS PROGR AM AWARD WINNERS 2015 -16 CONTINUED
ROCK ZHANG, junior, ENG Bioengineering
James Newton Matthews Scholarship
(a four-year renewable campuslevel award, graduating seniors)
GILAD MARGALIT, senior, LAS Physics
Mary E. Mohler International Study Grant
(International Programs and Studies)
MIRIAM HORSLEY, sophomore,
LAS Linguistics
Outstanding Volunteer Service Award
(Office of Volunteer Programs)
KIMBERLY HIRSCHHORN,
President’s Award Program (University
of Illinois, for outstanding minority
students, graduating seniors)
MICHAEL MILLER, senior,
ROBERT MOSS, senior, LAS Economics
and Statistics and BUS Finance
SARAH BRUMM, senior, LAS
Psychology and English
GABRIELLE RICCIO, senior,
MAXWELL E. COLON, senior,
KIMBERLY GASICIEL, senior, LAS Psychology
JORDAN ALEXANDER WILLIAMS,
senior, ACES Natural Resources
Provost Scholarship (Office of the
Provost, graduating seniors)
XIANGYUN JOHN DUAN, senior,
ERIC M. STANISZEWSKI, senior,
Senior 100 Honorary (all-campus, top
seniors based on academic standing and
involvement, initiative, and leadership
in campus and community activities)
CONNOR BAILEY, senior, ENG
Materials Science and Engineering
Undergraduate Research
Certificate (through the UI Office
of Undergraduate Research)
University Academic Achievement
Scholarship (graduating seniors,
four-year all-campus award for
out-of-state undergraduates)
ANNA JI, senior,
CAMPUS HONORS PROGRAM
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
Design Competition (Illinois
JEFFREY D. PEKOSH, senior,
Broadrick-Allen Award Winner Carol Spindel
(Office of Volunteer Programs) Stamps Scholarship (graduating seniors,
Stamps Family Charitable Foundation, Inc.)
DYLAN HOYER, senior,
ANNIE RONG, senior, ENG Computer Science
NICHOLAS BINKUS, senior, ENG General
Chancellor’s Scholars on Research
Trip to Yellowstone National Park
Engineering
ARJUN BALWALLY, senior,
ASHTON TOWNSLEY, junior,
CLARE SCHEIB-FEELEY, ACES Natural
LAUREN HALL, senior, ACES Food
Science and Human Nutrition
MARJORIE DALLMANN, 12/15
BRETT GLASNER, senior,
King Broadrick-Allen Award for
Excellence in Honors Teaching
(Campus Honors Program)
CAROL SPINDEL, Rhetoric
Calvin Ke Memorial Student Leadership
Award (Campus Honors Program)
CHP 395 Field Trip to Yellowstone
National Park (Fall 2015, led by
Professor Bruce Fouke)
CONNOR BAILEY, senior,
MEGAN WARREN, senior,
FAA Music Education
CHP Out-of-State Tuition Scholarship
(two-year award for nonresidents
entering the program as freshmen,
graduating seniors only)
KATHERINE BOKENKAMP,
senior, FAA Voice
ANNA JI, senior, senior,
CHP Special Merit Scholarship (graduating
seniors, awarded to an average of two
entering Chancellor’s Scholars annually)
ATHREY NADHAN, senior,
IAN LEE, senior, LAS Mathematics
AMY KLOBUCHAR, 12/15
AKASH PATEL, junior,
and Computer Science
alumna, LAS Linguistics
TOM ROADCAP, junior,
OBINNA O. ONYEMEPU, senior,
2016 CHP Summer Research Award
ALEXANDRA LAMTYUGINA,
sophomore, LAS Chemistry, a-Synuclein
with Professor Chad Rienestra
2016 CHP Summer Travel Awards
KATELYN SHANAHAN, junior,
BUS Supply Chain Management
ENG Aerospace Engineering
and CHP participation)
YULIYA SEMIBRATOVA, junior,
LAS Mathematics and Statistics
Space Society Team Award)
seniors, for academic excellence
BEN ROSENBERG, senior,
SEDS Satellites Around Mars
Service RSO President of the Year
CHP Outstanding Senior Award (17
GABRIELLE NICOLETTE RICCIO,
senior, ACES Animal Sciences
KATHERINE BORA, senior, LAS History
EMILY CULLUM, senior, ENG Bioengineering
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EDUC Elementary Education,
Granada, Spain (UI SAO)
ROSS SKELLY, junior, LAS Molecular
and Cellular Biology and Chemistry
FRAZIER CURLESS, sophomore,
ERIC M. STANISZEWSKI, senior,
Economics, Brazil (IBIP)
ACES Agricultural and Consumer
CASSIDY DONNELLY, freshman,
MATTHEW THOMETZ, senior,
CHP Honors Student Council
Executive Officers for 2015 – 2016
(elected by their peers)
ACES Animal Sciences, South Africa (ACES)
RACHEL HAWK, sophomore,
CHP graduate Ana Petracovici
ANA PETRACOVICI, senior,
ACES Agricultural and Consumer
Economics, Brazil (IBIP)
LAURA SCHULTZ, sophomore,
TRISTAN (STAN) GURTLER,
sophomore, ENG Computer Science
PAIGE KORDAS, sophomore,
ENG Computer Science
HANNAH SIMMONS, senior,
LAS Mathematics and Statistics,
EVAN RAMOS, junior,
Germany (DAAD)
UMBERTO RAVAIOLI, senior,
LAS Earth Systems, Environment,
and Society, Sweden (UI class)
YULIYA SEMIBRATOVA, junior,
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ACES Crop Sciences
KATE JOHNSON, senior,
Douglas L. Bosworth Endowed
Scholarship (Department of Agricultural
and Biological Engineering)
MATTHEW NIEWIARA, sophomore,
Wendell Bowers Student Scholarship
(Department of Agricultural and
Biological Engineering)
MORGAN FUEHNE, junior,
Chancellor’s Scholar Danish Majid
CHP/Yanai Rotary Club GoodWill Ambassador to Japan
DANISH MAJID, freshman, LAS Biology
Certificate of Outstanding Contributions
to the Campus Honors Program
senior, FAA Voice
MELODY CHUA, senior, FAA Instrumental
Music and Music Technology
Dr. Philip and Carol Buriak Award
(Department of Agricultural and
Biological Engineering)
Steve Eckhoff and Pioneer Hi-Bred
International Agricultural Engineering
Scholarship (Department of Agricultural
ALEX BROCKAMP, freshman,
James Scholars, College of Agricultural,
Consumer, and Environmental
Sciences (graduating seniors)
LAUREN HALL, senior, ACES Food
Science and Human Nutrition
MARY MARGARET HAPP,
senior, ACES Crop Sciences
KATERINA HOLAN, senior,
ACES Crop Sciences
KATE JOHNSON, senior,
GABRIELLE NICOLETTE RICCIO,
senior, ACES Animal Sciences
Bernard C. Mathews Company
Scholarship (College of Agricultural
ALEX BRAUMAN, sophomore,
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL,
KARLI N. ROBINSON, senior,
J.A. Weber Outstanding Freshman
Award (Department of Agricultural
KARA BROCKAMP, freshman,
COLLEGE OF APPLIED
HEALTH SCIENCES
James Scholars, College of Applied
Health Sciences (graduating seniors)
Corsetti Business Scholarship
(College of Business)
KATHERINE SHANAHAN, junior,
BUS Supply Chain Management; and Marketing
Ernsteen Family Centennial
Scholarship (College of Business)
NEIL HUGHES, junior, BUS Finance
BUS Accountancy
Robert H. Mitchel Endowed Scholarship
in Business (College of Business)
SPENCER COPELAND, sophomore,
BUS Curriculum Unassigned
Northfolk Southern Business Marketing
MADELINE SIAMBEKOS,
junior, BUS Marketing
John W. Queenan Scholarship
(Department of Accountancy)
LEANN BECKMAN, 12/15
John A. Schoen Entrepreneurial
ERIC ZHANG, junior, BUS Finance
Shebik Scholarship Fund
KEVIN DOHERTY, junior,
BUS Finance and Accountancy
Steve Workman Scholarship
CATHERINE SHI, sophomore,
Mary Sparks Alley Scholarship
(Department of Business Administration)
RACHEL JACOBY, sophomore,
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Chancellor’s Scholar Catherine Shi
Cynthia and Dan Helle Scholarship
KATHERINE IUORIO, junior,
BUS Accountancy
Michael and Diana Hora Scholarship
CHP graduate Jordan Williams
KARA BROCKAMP, freshman,
HAOXUAN LI, junior, BUS Accountancy
NRES Outstanding Senior Award for
Human Dimensions of the Environment
(Department of Natural Resources
and Environmental Sciences)
ACT Activator Award (Agricultural
Communicators of Tomorrow)
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NEIL HUGHES, junior, BUS Finance
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
British Petroleum (BP) America
ABE 100 Best Overall Award (Department
of Agricultural and Biological Engineering)
MATTHEW NIEWIARA, sophomore,
Michael and Debra Chorpash
SCIENCES
H. Paul Bateman Congeniality
HANNAH SIMMONS, senior,
CONSUMER, & ENVIRONMENTAL
KRISTA TEMPLE, sophomore,
MED Agricultural Communications
DYLAN HOYER, senior,
JASON LIN, junior, BUS Accountancy
K.J.T. Ekblaw Outstanding Sophomore
COLLEGE AWARDS,
SCHOLARSHIPS, AND
RECOGNITIONS
Business Honors Program (graduating
seniors, 40 students per year in
the College of Business)
Chancellor’s Scholar Kara Brockamp
Golden Opportunity Scholarship
(Department of Crop Sciences)
HANNAH DONOHO, junior,
ACES Crop Sciences
Jonathan Baldwin Turner (JBT) Scholars
(College of Agricultural, Consumer, and
Environmental Sciences, graduating seniors)
MARY MARGARET HAPP, senior,
James Scholars, College of
Business (graduating seniors)
LEANN BECKMAN, 12/15
APRIL YOUNG, senior, BUS Accountancy; and
Chancellor’s Scholar Michael Tornaritis
BP America Illinois MakerLab
Information Systems and Information Technology
Bruce Lundstrom International Study
Abroad Scholarship (College of Business)
MICHAEL TORNARITIS, sophomore,
MADELINE SIAMBEKOS,
junior, BUS Marketing
CHP graduate Jenna Aronson
William E. and Charlotte Young Albin
Scholarship (College of Education)
Douglas and Dorothy Dirks
Scholarship (College of Education)
OLIVIA NOEL ELKINS, junior,
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Education Alumni Association
Medal (College of Education)
Norman Carlson Scholarship (Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
THOMAS ROADCAP, junior,
Bei Tse and May Chao Scholarship
JEFFREY TOLAR, senior,
John B. Felmley Scholarship (Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
ALIAA TAHA, sophomore,
(Department of Mechanical
and Enterprise Systems Engineering)
MADELINE SCHULZE, sophomore,
George W. Harper Award (Department of
Mechanical Science and Engineering)
JASON TROUTNER, senior,
ELIZABETH GACEK, junior,
ENG Bioengineering
Alfred W. Allen Award (Department of
Materials Science and Engineering)
Collin Anderson, freshman, ENG
PRITAM BHATTARAI, senior,
Alwan Scholarship (Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering)
CHRISTINA ERNST, freshman,
James W. Bayne Award (Department of
Mechanical Science and Engineering, for
outstanding senior in Pi Tau Sigma)
Channing Brown Scholarship
(Department of Computer Science)
MATTHEW RASMUSSEN, senior,
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ERIC WOOD, junior, ENG
Mechanical Engineering
John Deere Foundation Scholarship
(College of Engineering)
MOLLY FANE, freshman,
William L. and Elizabeth A. Ackerman
Scholarship (College of Engineering)
NICK BINKUS, senior,
Scholarship (Department of Industrial
Science and Engineering) COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
General Engineering Distinguished
Service Award (Department of Industrial
and Enterprise Systems Engineering)
HANSEN, Frederick and Rachel,
Bioengineering (Department of Mechanical
OBINNA ONYEMEPU, senior,
John C. and Elizabeth J. Chato Award in
James Scholars, College of Education
(graduating seniors)
ERIC CONNELLY, sophomore,
Science and Engineering)
CHP graduate Obinna Onyemepu
John A. Gardner Undergraduate Summer
Research Award (Department of Physics)
Dobberpuhl Student Award
Scholarship (Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering)
GRAHAM ELLINGHAUSEN, sophomore,
Earl J. Eckel Scholarship (Department
of Materials Science and Engineering)
ARJUN BALWALLY, senior,
JOSHUA KHAZANOV, freshman,
ECE General Scholarship (Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering)
CHP graduate Athrey Nadhan
Wilmer Hellenthal Scholarship
(College of Engineering)
ZOE RICHTER, sophomore, ENG Nuclear,
Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
Illinois Association of County
Engineers Award (Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering)
KYLE BATHGATE, freshman,
MOLLY FANE, freshman,
CODY SIMPSON, sophomore,
Jules D. Falzer Scholarship (Department
Illinois Engineering Premier Scholarship
of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
LILY BENIG, freshman, ENG Bioengineering
XIANGYUN JOHN DUAN, senior,
Chancellor’s Scholar Lily Benig
James Scholars, College of
Engineering (graduating seniors)
RAMYA BABU, senior, ENG Bioengineering
DEREK VIDOVIC, senior,
Kaskowitz Family Scholarship (Department
JOHN RYAN, junior,
Knights of St. Patrick (College of
Engineering, highest honor for leadership,
character, and contribution to the college)
MARJORIE DALLMANN, 12/15
GINO GIANNETTI, senior,
BRETT GLASNER, senior,
CONNOR W. GOODING, senior,
Edward S. Fraser Award (Department
of Industrial and Enterprise
Systems Engineering)
A.G. Friederich Memorial Award
(Department of Mechanical
ALYSSA MARTINEZ, senior,
Ford Scholarship (College of Engineering)
NICHOLAS H. BALKO, senior,
CHP graduate Isaac Carrasquillo
NICK BINKUS, senior,
CONNOR BAILEY, senior,
OBINNA O. ONYEMEPU, senior,
JEFFREY D. PEKOSH, senior,
UMBERTO RAVAIOLI, senior,
OLIVIA ROGERS, senior,
GILLIAN P. SMITH, senior,
ENG Bioengineering
JOHN W. SMITH, senior,
JEFFREY TOLAR, senior,
SHRUTI VAIDYA, senior,
Robert E. and Karen Martin Luetje
Scholarship (Department of Materials
ZACHARY HOFFMAN, junior,
Frima Lukatskaya Scholarship
ROBERT KAUCIC, freshman,
Ernest M. Lyman Prize (Department of
Physics, for an outstanding senior)
Alumni Board Award
JASON FLEISCHMAN, senior,
Frank C. Mock Scholarship (Department
HYUNBIN PARK, junior,
JP Morgan Chase WCS Scholarship
Bernard Delbert Murphy Scholarship
(Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering)
COURTNEY ACKERMAN, junior,
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Centenary Prize for the Outstanding
Senior in the Teaching of Social Studies
Nuclear Engineering Education
Scholarship, Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (Department of Nuclear,
Plasma, and Radiological Engineering)
Outstanding Graduating Senior in Music
Education, Instrumental (School of Music)
EVANGELIA PAGONES, senior,
FAA Music Education
Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
CHP graduate Megan Warren
Swanson Environmental Sustainability
Award (Department of Mechanical
CHARLES TIERNEY, junior,
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
Illinois Alpha Chapter Outstanding Member
ENG Mechanical Engineering, in Fall 2015
Kenneth J. Trigger Award (Department
of Mechanical Science and Engineering)
David A. Payne Scholarship (Department
of Materials Science and Engineering)
COLLIN ANDERSON, freshman,
Schlader Memorial Scholarship in
Engineering (College of Engineering)
Fred B. Seely Award (Department of
Mechanical Science and Engineering)
THOMAS MCGRATH, junior,
James N. Snyder Award (Department
of Computer Science)
ICCP James N. Snyder Memorial Award
HYUNBIN PARK, junior,
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James M. White Memorial Prize
(School of Architecture)
SALONI SHETH, junior,
FAA Architectural Studies
ARTS & SCIENCES
WCS Grace Hopper Scholarship
COLLEGE OF FINE & APPLIED ARTS
Elizabeth Meier Frauenhoffer
Scholarship (School of Music)
senior, FAA Voice
Humpreys and Partners Scholarship
(School of Architecture)
SALONI SHETH, junior,
FAA Architectural Studies
James Scholars, College of Fine and
Applied Arts (graduating seniors)
JASMINE KIRBY, senior, LAS History
Chancellor’s Scholar Alexander Orr
Honorable Bernard M. and Louise
A. Decker Scholarship (College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
ALEXANDER ORR, freshman, LAS Chemistry
Margaret DeKany Memorial Scholarship
(College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
ANA PETRACOVICI, senior, LAS
GRACE DEETJEN, senior,
ENG Bioengineering
ALLISON DEFRANCESCO, senior,
FAA Instrumental Music
COLLEGE OF LIBERAL
History Honors Program
RAJASI RASTOGI, junior,
FAA Industrial Design
KEVIN BRENNER, junior,
DIVYA SINGH, sophomore,
Talented Student Tuition Waiver
(College of Fine and Applied Arts)
Thomas J. Smith Scholarship (competition
through the School of Music)
IAN LEE, senior, LAS Mathematics
NIA MACK, senior, LAS Political Science
GILAD MARGALIT, senior, LAS Physics
SARAH OSMULSKI, senior,
ANA PETRACOVICI, senior,
ISAAC PHILIP, senior,
ANNA JI, senior, LAS Integrative Biology
KATIE M. REITER, senior, LAS Economics
KATHERINE D. LINCOLN, senior,
SANA SINGH, senior,
LAS Global Studies and Sociology
James Scholars, College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences (graduating seniors)
SARA BRUMM, senior,
LAS Psychology and English
CHARLOTTE ANNA HUNT,
sophomore, LAS Classics
Marjorie Fletcher Burgess Scholarship
Integrative Biology Honors Program
JASMINE KIRBY, senior, LAS History
KATHERINE BORA, senior,
senior, LAS History
Best Student Prize in Italian (Department
of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese)
ALISHBA REHMAN, freshman,
LAS Biochemistry
RACHEL SMITH, sophomore, LAS Physics
VAIBHAV JARIWALA, sophomore,
Houston and Papadimitriou Greek Culture
Award (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
ANNA JI, senior, senior,
VINCENT ABEJUELA, senior,
LAS Molecular and Cellular Biology and Physics
Beryl Bristow/Commonwealth
Edison Award (Department of
Physics, for a woman in physics)
Theodore L. and Audrey C.
Brown Scholarship (College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences)
James A. Hagan Scholarship (College
Wilmer E. Hellenthal Scholarship
(College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, for pre-med students)
MEGAN WARREN, senior,
FAA Music Education
NATHAN BEAUCHAMP, sophomore,
JULIA KOMRSKA, junior, LAS Chemistry
ARON GOEKEN, freshman, LAS Biochemistry
Warren H. Schuetz Memorial
Award (School of Music)
Oakley Family Foundation Scholarship
(Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering)
Chancellor’s Scholar Collin Anderson
QUINCY CRAWFORD, junior, ENG Nuclear,
Program (Department of History)
John E. Gieseking Scholarship
(School of Chemical Sciences)
CHP graduate Sara Brumm
Egan Illinois Achievement Scholarship
ALEXANDER ORR, freshman, LAS Chemistry
Donald E. Eisele Memorial Award
(Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering)
CRYSTAL CHANG, senior,
CHP graduate Nathan Stables
MAXWELL E. COLON, senior,
WARREN D’SOUZA, senior,
LAS Actuarial Science and Economics
GERALD (JERRY) JIANG WU, senior,
KATHERINE GARBACIAK,
senior, LAS Integrative Biology
Mal S. Klugman Scholarship (College
KELLY CHO, freshman, LAS Biochemistry
TIANMING YOU, freshman, LAS Biology
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SARAH TUCKER, senior,
Lincoln Hall Scholarship (College
HANNAH HOLMES, freshman, LAS Chemistry
HEATHER HOLMES, freshman,
LAS Chemistry
Harriet Long Award (School
of Integrative Biology)
Ernest M. Lyman Prize (Department of
Physics, for an outstanding senior)
Peter C. and Gretchen Miller Markunas
Scholarship (School of Chemical Sciences)
ROSS SKELLY, junior, LAS Molecular
and Cellular Biology and Chemistry
KELLY TWOHIG, junior, LAS Chemistry
Masuda Award (Department of East
Asian Languages and Cultures)
MIRIAM HORSLEY, sophomore,
LAS Linguistics
Honors Program
SARAH OSMULSKI, senior,
Dorothy E. Nowlin Scholarship (College
Ogura Award for Outstanding Senior
in Atmospheric Sciences (Department
of Atmospheric Sciences)
Ogura Award for Undergraduate Research
(Department of Atmospheric Sciences)
Carolyn Joyce Pape Award
(Department of English)
*AMANDA MURPHY, senior,
Liberal Arts and Sciences)
(Department of Economics)
Chancellor’s Scholar Lingfei Mao
SEAN SARCU, 5/15 alumnus, LAS Psychology
MEGAN SCHARLAU, senior, LAS History
*SARAH TUCKER, 12/15 alumna,
*INDUCTED AS A JUNIOR
LAS Actuarial Science and Statistics
COLLEGE OF MEDIA
Jesse Ruiz Scholarship
CHLOE MARSHINSKI, junior,
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LAS Actuarial Science
Sam and Dubey Portnoy Memorial
Scholarship (Department of Mathematics)
senior, LAS Integrative Biology
Every fall, CHP staff and student
leaders present Orientation to the
program’s incoming cohort during their
first Friday on campus. The event is
designed to introduce our fledglings
to CHP’s facilities, offerings, and ethos.
What they may not be told is that the
brisk morning of tours, testimonials,
and icebreakers is the subject of some
deliberate planning behind the scenes.
William I. Wilbur Scholarship (College
LINGFEI MAO, freshman,
KATHERINE GARBACIAK,
By EVAN RAMOS, junior, ENG
Computer Engineering
Rolfe Scholarship (College of
JORDAN B. BANKS, sophomore,
ORIENTATION UPDATE
Chancellor’s Scholar Benjamin Lawyer
Yvonne S. Quinn and Ronald S.
Science and LAS Spanish
SARA BRUMM, senior,
LAS Mathematics
*ANA PETRACOVICI, senior,
Phillips 66 Scholarship (College
Most Outstanding Undergraduate
Major Award in Mathematics
BENJAMIN LAWYER, freshman,
AHS Speech and Hearing
Dewey B. and Velma P. Stuit Award
CHP graduate Ian Lee
ANDRE KOHN, freshman,
ITAMAR ALLALI, sophomore, LAS Physics
SILVIA MARTIN SOPHOMORE,
CHP siblings Jennifer and Katherine Bora
Robert A. Stein Scholarship
(Department of Physics)
SARAH DERANGO, freshman,
Anthony Pasquariello Scholarship
(Department of Spanish,
Italian and Portuguese)
AUSTIN GRAF, senior, LAS Physics
JASMINE KIRBY, senior, senior, LAS History
SARA BRUMM, senior,
Phi Beta Kappa (Liberal Arts and
Sciences Honor Society for top 1% of
junior class or top 3% of senior class)
Robert W. Rogers Scholarship (College
State Farm Actuarial Scholarship
(Department of Mathematics)
Preble Research Scholarship (College
NATHAN STABLES, LAS Integrative Biology
Dale Willard and Arlene Jay
Robb Endowed Scholarship
Peter and Susan Schaeffer Scholarship
for Excellence in German (Department of
Germanic Languages and Literatures)
SONAM KOTADIA, junior,
LAS Global Studies and German
Pauline Steiner Schwalbe Award
(Department of Germanic
Languages and Literatures)
SONAM KOTADIA, junior,
LAS Global Studies and German
Kevin Allwin Shrote Endowed Scholarship
(Departments of Physics and Astronomy)
ITAMAR ALLALI, sophomore, LAS Physics
Society for Classical Studies
Outstanding Student Award
ALEX NODDINGS, junior, LAS Physics
Chancellor’s Scholar Armando Sanchez-Monsivais
Eleanor Garm Hemminger
Scholarship (College of Media)
ARMANDO SANCHEZ-MONSIVAIS,
freshman, MED Advertising
Marilyn Miller Kaytor Scholarship (College
of Media, for students studying journalism)
CHARLOTTE COLLINS,
sophomore, MED Journalism
Joel D. and Analee Weisman Award (College
of Media, for students studying journalism)
Orientation Leaders address students at Picnic
In the spirit of freshman year
prerequisites, we start the day bright and
early at 7:00 a.m., breakfast and coffee
provided. Once students arrive, they
find their nametag which assigns them
to one of nine carefully selected groups
that pairs them with others who may
be under the wing of the same Senior
Sibling, while maintaining diversity of
major and department. An hour in, three
groups at a time rotate between two
panel sessions, covering aspects of the
program such as general student life
and study abroad, and a guided tour
of the Honors House. By 10:00 am, the
first-year students hop onto buses to
the campus-wide Convocation while the
rest of us take a breather. But not for
long – we reconvene at Illini Grove that
afternoon for fun, games, and a picnic.
Orientation serves to extend our
warmest welcome to our newest
members just as they begin their
University of Illinois journey. With
any luck, the impression we leave
will foster rich involvement in
everything CHP can offer, including
future student leaders stepping up
to pass on the torch once again.
KRISTA TEMPLE, sophomore,
MED Agricultural Communications
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FREQUENT FLYERS
The following Chancellor’s Scholars participated in or are participating in study abroad
in Academic Year 2016 - 2017. The sponsoring units are in parentheses. The list does
not include recipients of CHP travel awards, who appear on Page 21 of this newsletter.
KEVIN BRENNER (junior, ENG Mechanical
Engineering): Summer Study Tour
2016, BUS T&M, Beijing, Jiaxing,
Shanghai, and Tianjing, China
GRETA DODEN (sophomore, ACES
Animal Sciences): Summer Study
Tour 2016, ACES African Wildlife
Discovery Tour, South Africa
KEVIN DOHERTY (junior, BUS Finance
and Accounting): Summer Study Tour
Jiaxing, Shanghai, and Tianjing, China
LUCIA DUNDERMAN (sophomore, ACES
Agricultural and Biological Engineering):
Summer Study Tour 2016, ACES/
Engineering, Hangzhou, China
SHUNHUA FU (junior, ENG Computer
Curriculum Unassigned): Summer
Study Tour 2016, BUS Honors,
Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, United Arab
Emirates, Malaysia, and Singapore
Study Tour 2016, ACES 293 James Scholar
Summer Research, Deep Creek, Bahamas
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and Biological Engineering): Summer Study
Tour 2016, ACES 293 James Scholar
Summer Research, Deep Creek, Bahamas
THOMAS MCGRATH (junior, ENG Engineering
Mechanics): Summer 2016, Engineering:
Summer in Taiwan-Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
AASHAY PATEL (junior, LAS Molecular
and Cellular Biology): Fall 2016, BUS
Exchange: WHU Otto Beisheim School
of Management, Vallendar, Germany
SALONI SHETH (junior, FAA Architectural
Studies): Summer 2016, SAO/
Linguistics): Academic Year 2016 – 2017,
LAS Stockholm Summer Arctic
Program, Stockholm, Sweden
NEIL HUGHES (junior, BUS Finance): Summer
Animal Sciences): Summer 2016, ACES
MIRIAM HORSLEY (sophomore, LAS
The Campus Honors Program
Environmental Sustainability Committee
(ESC) continued another year of making
the Honors House as environmentally
friendly as the almost-century old house
could be. After advertising the ESC as
the main sub-committee of the Honors
Student Council, the chair ERIK KOUNTZ
and vice chair CASEY BUNGE participated
in an SAS tour of the Student Sustainable
Farm. This tour was our main activity
of the year and was well attended.
NICHOLAS KORTENDICK (junior, ENG
GRACE KURCAB (sophomore, ACES Agricultural
Resources and Environmental Sciences): Summer
By ERIK KOUNTZ, junior, LAS Physics
NATHAN GAERTNER (freshman, BUS
ISAAK HABERMAN (freshman, ACES Natural
CAMPUS HONORS
PROGR AM
ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILIT Y
COMMITTEE
Engineering): Summer Study Tour
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
BUS Honors, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, United
Arab Emirates, Malaysia, and Singapore
ENG Mechanical Engineering): Summer
Study Tour 2016, BUS T&M, Beijing,
OMAR JOYA (junior, ENG Electrical
Computer Science): Summer Study Tour
Unassigned): Summer Study Tour 2016,
OLUWAMI DOSUNMU-OGUNBI (junior,
2016, SAO Exchange Spanish Studies
in Granada, Granada, Spain
Science): Fall 2016, SAO Exchange
ERICA HACKETT (freshman, BUS Curriculum
Chancellor’s Scholar Oluwami DosunmuOgunbi at Rare Book Library
GEORGE IBRAHIM (sophomore, LAS
Molecular and Cellular Biology): Summer
LAS EALC Year in Japan, Kobe Japan
Study Tour 2016, BUS T&M, Beijing,
Jiaxing, Shanghai, and Tianjing, China
CHP alumnus KEVIN WOLZ organized a
tour of the Honors House prairie garden, a
restored prairie at Meadowbrook Park, and his
research plot at Woody Perennial Polyculture
site in the Student Sustainable Farm.
Our tour started by learning a bit about
the prairie plants in the front of the Honors
House. We then set off to Meadowbrook
Park which included restored prairie, part
of the 0.01% of the tallgrass prairie that
once covered Illinois. We also learned
about the importance of fire to prairies
to cut back growth of trees – made clear
by the encroaching trees surrounding the
Meadowbrook prairie. Our tour ended at
Kevin’s research plot at the Woody Perennial
Polyculture site. Kevin talked about how
monoculture plots like corn and soybeans are
not as good for the soil as the polyculture
prairie. While such a farm might not provide
ASHTON TOWNSLEY (junior, ACES
in New Zealand Massey University,
New Zealand and Australia
EQUINOX
HONORS STUDENT COUNCIL
Equinox is
the CHP
literary and
arts magazine
started in
Spring 2013,
which includes
poetry, visual
art, nonfiction
prose, and
fiction prose
2016 Equinox cover
by many
talented Chancellor’s Scholars. VELVIZHI
RATHINAVELU served as Editor-in-Chief,
CHARLOTTE HUNT was Managing Art
Editor, RYAN WOODS was Managing
Writing Editor, and SAM WALDER was
Head Copyeditor. Ten Chancellor’s
Scholars were Submission Reviewers,
eight helped as Copyeditors, two
oversaw Layout, and CHARLOTTE HUNT
designed the cover. Thanks to the
efforts of the Office of Undergraduate
Research and a donation by PAUL
DIEHL, Equinox will be published on-line.
By PAIGE KORDAS, sophomore, ENG Computer Science
CHP Student Computer Administrators
(CHRISTINE ERNST, ZACH BREWER,
SANJIT DUTTA, and ABHISHEK
NIGAM) helped create the journal
as an on-line publication. For more
info, see: http://honors.illinois.
edu/docs/equinox_2016.pdf
After the departure of a large and involved
senior class, this year’s Honors Student
Council (HSC) rallied for a successful
rebuilding year. Thanks to the efforts of all
the contributing members and the outgoing
executive board composed of ROCK ZHANG,
EVAN RAMOS, TRISTAN GURTLER, and
PAIGE KORDAS, HSC planned many of
the usual activities and also brought some
new ones into the schedule. As always,
CHP kicked off the year by welcoming the
incoming freshmen with Orientation – this
year led by ALEX NODDINGS, EVAN RAMOS,
RAJASI RASTOGI, and ANJANA KRISHNAN
– and continued the traditions of the senior
sibling program and the 6th annual Freshman
Cookout, featuring the plentiful and delicious
food of BILL SIMMONS from ACES.
Chancellor’s Scholar celebrate Halloween
From there, HSC continued the year with
planning some regular programming,
including fortnights (only one of which was
a trainwreck!), Power Lunches (featuring
professors ARIANA TRAILL, ATHOL
KEMBALL, and CAROL SPINDEL and CHP
alumni CLIFF REDEKER and ANTHONY
SHEEHAN), board game days, and meals
out to Basil Thai, Bangkok Thai, Bab Plus,
Panda Express, and Orange Leaf. They
also planned some traditional special
events, including ultimate Frisbee and a
game of Capture the Flag that ended in
intense hostage negotiations, a trip to
Hardy’s Reindeer Ranch for the corn maze,
the Halloween Party, Regression Day, a
Seven Wonders themed Semiformal (full of
balloons and bubbles), and a May Fourth
Coffee Crawl complete with Java the Hutt
t-shirts. For Convocation, HSC hosted a book
discussion group, led by EVAN RAMOS.
as many calories as a corn field, such a farm
could balance the need for human food
with the importance of varied plant life.
Beyond our tour of the Illinois prairie, we
continued to promote energy efficiency
at the Honors House. We made sure air
conditioners were only running when
necessary and covered them during the
winter to keep drafts out. Additionally, we
covered all the windows at the Honors House
for the winter to add extra insulation. Finally,
we planted new prairie plants prairie near the
bird bath which was kindly donated last year.
Overall we had a great year and look forward
to making the Campus Honors Program
as sustainable as possible so that even as
people come and go the improvements
to the Honors House flourish and grow.
Honors House in bloom
PAIGE KORDAS and EVAN RAMOS also
continued to lead the FRED Talks series
Power Lunch with Chancellor’s Scholars
and CHP alum Cliff Redeker
with FRED4ALL and FRED TALK5. Talks
included “Algae: The Solution to All of Your
Problems”, “Why I’m an Atheist Hindu”,
“Agroecology, The Future of Sustainable
Agriculture”, “The Buzz About Bees”, and
“’Gay Greeks’: Fact or Fiction.” HSC raised
$56.31 for Courage Connections through
Penny Wars (with the winning class being
the seniors) and sent a group of students
to volunteer at the CarX CrazyK on behalf
of the C-U Autism Network as a part of
iHelp. Led by CHARLOTTE HUNT, HSC
completed a scrape painting that now hangs
proudly in the Honors House. HSC also
continued to support the Environmental
Sustainability Committee and helped manage
the Equinox Literary and Arts Magazine.
2016-2017 HSC Exec Members Bryant,
Ramos, Goel, and Kordas
Congratulations to our graduating members
of HSC – ERIK KOUNTZ, JASMINE KIRBY,
SANJIT DUTTA, and NATHAN STABLES – and
thanks for your contributions! Next year
HSC will be led by EVAN RAMOS, PAIGE
KORDAS, JOEY BRYANT, and VIRAAT GOEL.
Meetings will resume Mondays and 5:00 p.m.
in the Honors House lounge once classes
resume in the fall. All are welcome to attend!
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CHAPEL OF LOVE — COUPLE 22!
CONVOCATION
April was a member of Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society and a James
Scholar in the College of Business, and she participated in the
Honors Student Council. She was a Technology Risk Intern for Crowe
Horvath in Summer 2015, an Audit and IT Consulting Intern for KPMG
in Spring 2015, and a Strategic Tax Planning Intern for Illinois Tool
Works in Summer 2014. April served as Phi Chi Professional Business
Fraternity Pledge Professional Trainer and Professional Committee
Chair, Vice President-External of the Accounting Club in Fall 2014,
and a BUMP Project Associate for Illinois Enactus in Fall 2014.
Dylan co-founded Cartgogogo, Inc., a grocery-delivery company
with three other partners in Champaign and China. He was a
CHP graduates April Young and Dylan Hoyer at Curtis Orchard
APRIL YOUNG (senior, BUS Accountancy; and Information Systems and
Information Technology) and DYLAN HOYER (senior, LAS Economics
and History): “We are getting married in Lake Forest on June 12,
2016. We actually met for the first time at the 2012 Convocation,
through a fellow CHP’er we both knew. We ended up walking
back together after Convocation was over and didn’t see each
other again until the CHP Halloween Party. From there, we’ve
never stopped talking to each other or trying to make each other
laugh! We’ve had a wonderful time in CHP and with HSC. We
both really appreciate you and all the staff the Honors House for
making this campus a home for us for the past four years.”
Business Honors Intern for the Security and Exchange Commission
in Summer 2015, has been a Project Consultant with EntreCORPS
since September 2014, and has worked on history research since
January 2015, including serving on the SourceLab Working Group.
He was Phi Chi Theta Professional Business Fraternity’s External
Portfolio Manager for their Internal Research and Investment Services.
Dylan earned an Informatics minor, and was a Stamps Scholar.
Dylan will continue working with his grocery-delivery
Thanks to support from CHP alumni and
friends to the Keith L. Kelroy Memorial
Fund, the Annual Convocation was a
great success! As Chancellor’s Scholars
know, this is an opportunity to join in a
conversation about a recent book, and to
talk informally and at length with the author.
This past year our speaker was Chaz
Ebert, who gave a talk about Life Itself, the
autobiography by the late Pulitzer Prize
winning Chicago Sun-Times theatre critic
Roger Ebert. The Honors Convocation
took place on Sunday, November 1, 2015.
Students participated in discussions
groups, a screening of the film Life Itself, the
afternoon talk, and dinner with Chaz Ebert.
This talk was later featured as the cover
story of the Daily Illini on November
2, 2015, and in the “Go Figure UI
Edition” of the Champaign-Urbana
News-Gazette on November 6, 2015.
Chaz Ebert with Chancellor’s Scholars at Convocation
start-up, and April will be working at KPMG as an
Information Technology Audit Consultant in Chicago, and
studying to become a Certified Public Accountant.
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time I went to find her and talk to her was to ask about BOB
SKIRVIN’s Hort 100 course. We chatted for a while, then a few
more times, then I asked her on a date and here we are :).”
At Illinois, Laura did research with Professor Kathryn Clancy
since May 2009, and in August 2010, she led a field project at
the Mogielica Human Ecology Study Site in Slopnice, Poland, for
which she was supported with a CHP Summer Research Grant.
She was President of the LAS James Scholar Spirit Association
and won two General Assembly Scholarships; she worked with
the Hugh O’Brian Youth (HOBY) Leadership Alumni Association
and competed in the UI Biology Open House Poster Competition.
Laura was an Admissions Student Tour Guide for three years.
CHP alums Laura Klein and Benjamin Montet at the 2011 CHP Graduation
BENJAMIN MONTET (5/11 alumnus, LAS Physics and Astronomy)
and LAURA KLEIN (5/11 alumna, LAS Integrative Biology): “We
will be getting married in August 2016! We’re very excited to
be able to add ourselves to the list of happy CHP couples. We
look forward to being back in Illinois next academic year.”
“We actually didn’t meet through the CHP, but it helped. We met
in the ISR dining hall through mutual friends – Laura has a friend
who was dating someone who lived down the hall from me in
the dorms and would eat meals with us semi-regularly. One day
she brought her friend Laura and we chatted. CHP gave me
an excuse to go up to Laura’s room and chat her up: the first
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Ben minored in Mathematics and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
Honor Society and Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society; he was named
a CHP Outstanding Senior. He was an Undergraduate Research
Assistant for Professor Robert J. Brunner, for which he was awarded a
CHP Summer Research Grant. In Summer 2010 Ben did research with
Professor Dana S. Bake; in Summer 2009, he worked with Professor
Charles F. Gammie. He taught Physics 102 and 211, and he was
ranked twice as Excellent for his teaching. He was a James Scholar
and he won the Kevin Allwin Shrote Physics Endowed Scholarship.
Laura is completing her PhD in Human Evolutionary Biology
at Harvard University, and Ben will be defending his PhD in
Astronomy and Astrophysics at CalTech in July 2016.
Chancellor’s Scholars and guests enjoy Convocation dinner
KDR AND SAS UPDATES
WELCOME
In June 2016, we were delighted to welcome Brian Jarnell
Moffitt, who joins the Campus Honors Program as the
new Program Director for the recently-created Honors
Living and Learning Community (comprised of James
Scholars from all colleges as well as Chancellor’s Scholars)
in Housing. Brian jointly reports to the Campus Honors
Program and Housing, and is excited to join the Illinois
Honors community. (At time of press, there were 41 firstyear and returning Chancellor’s Scholars confirmed to
live in this new Living and Learning Community.)
CHP presented some returning favorite
programs and several new and exciting
ones in 2015 – 2016! Please see http://
honors.illinois.edu/Krannert%20
Dress%20Rehearsal%20Series.shtml for
the Krannert listings, and http://honors.
illinois.edu/Scholar%20Adventure%20
Series.shtml for the Scholar
Adventurers Series programming.
Elizabeth Rockman coordinates these
programs, and looks forward to your
SAS ideas at [email protected].
Join us in welcoming Brian to his new role in Honors at Illinois!
Brian Jarnell Moffitt
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FACULT Y NEWS
FACULT Y NEWS CONTINUED
CHP Faculty have been busy this academic year. Here are a few of their major accomplishments:
GLEN DAVIES (Art) noted that his next
show is “Alpha and Omega: 45 Years
of Works by Glen C. Davies” and it will
run from June 18 - September 1, 2016
at the Merwin and Wakeley Galleries at
Illinois Wesleyan University. The show
opening was 1:00 – 4:00 on Saturday,
June 18, with the Artist Talk at 2:00 p.m.
BRUCE FOUKE (Geology) announced the
completion of his Yellowstone book in
time for the 100 year celebration of the
National Park Service: https://www.nps.
gov/subjects/centennial/index.htm. The
book citation is: Bruce W. Fouke and
Tom Murphy, 2016. The Art of Yellowstone
Science: Mammoth Hot Springs as a Window
on the Universe. Crystal Creek Press, 300
pages. He notes that BRUCE MICHELSON
served as editor, and the book content is
founded upon nearly a decade of bringing
CHP 395 classes to Yellowstone. The
book will appear in print in August 2016.
national and international conferences in
Minneapolis, Hartford, Germany, London,
Denver, Paris, Oxford, and Albuquerque.
She was a 2015 Co-Organizer and
Co-Chair of a Conference Session at the
114th Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association in Denver in
November 2015 entitled “New African
Migrants in Europe and the US: Encounters
with the Familiar and the Strange.”
KIM GRABER (Kinesiology and Community
Health and Campus Honors Program Director)
received the Research Council Distinguished
Service Award from SHAPE America
in April 2016, and she was the Faculty
Inductee for Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society in
April 2016, for which she gave the keynote
address, entitled “Successful Leadership:
Tips from Experience and Observation.”
visiting artists and teachers who will share
Japanese culture as Gunji-sensei has done.”
HANS HOCK (Linguistics) was awarded the
Sukumar Sen Memorial Gold Medal in
2015 for his work in general historical and
comparative linguistics and on Sanskrit
by the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, India (the
society that Sir William Jones helped to
establish). He is also the Primary/Co-editor,
with Elena Bashir of The languages and
linguistics of South Asia: A comprehensive guide.
Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter Mouton, 2016.
STEPHEN MARSHAK (Geology) recently
finished the following book: Marshak,
S., 2015, Earth: Portrait of a Planet, Fifth
Edition: W.W. Norton & Co., New
York. He notes that he enjoyed teaching
for CHP for the following reasons:
•
The students gave brilliant in-class
presentations on assigned topics.
•
The students were able to stand
up and give very impressive oral
summaries of their paper topics
with no advance preparation.
•
Writing by the students, taken as
a group, is the best I have seen in
any class. All assignments they
prepared were clear and interesting.
GRACE GIORGIO (Communications) reported
that she (along with several other faculty
members) applied for and received a
three-year SIIP (Strategic Instructional
Innovation Program) grant to develop
materials for public speaking clinics for
engineering classes. Last fall Grace received
further grant funding from the Provost’s
office (PITA – Provost’s Initiative on
Teaching Advancement) to develop and
implement Writing Fundamentals, an
online, adaptive program to help students
improve their grammatical and writing
skills. Grace also published two short stories
and a theoretical piece in Qualitative Inquiry
this past year: “Whitewashing the Past: A
KKK Display in a Rural, Midwestern Town,”
“Family Feuds are Forever” and “Let the
Guilty Speak: A Writing Story.” Grace notes
that she “loves teaching for CHP because the
students who are so creative and innovative
in their thinking motivate me to go beyond
my best in my teaching, writing, and
research. I aspire to do as well as they do.”
ALMA GOTTLIEB (Anthropology) received
a grant from the Jacobs Foundation
to undertake a Residency Fellowship
in August 2016 at Marbach Castle in
Germany to complete A World of Babies
(fully revised second edition, co-edited
with Judy DeLoache). In addition, she has
contributed to writing and editing several
other publications throughout the year.
This past academic year, Alma gave talks at
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BRUCE MICHELSON (English, Emeritus,
and Emeritus CHP Director) has been
Jennifer Gunji-Ballsrud and Kimiko
Gunji at Bridge Dedication
KIMIKO GUNJI (Art and Design, Emeritus) had
a new bridge at the Japan House formally
dedicated in her name on September 27,
2015. The event summary captured the
celebration: “The day was cloudy and as
the time drew near it began to rain. It
seems to us that only Gunji-sensei could
have convinced the rain to stop, the clouds
to part, and a shaft of sunlight to grace the
bridge as the crowd raised a toast to Kimiko
and Kimiko’s beloved granddaughter Mika
ran across the new bridge to greet her!
The celebration continued inside Japan
House with an outstanding meal prepared
by Chef Shin Matsuda of Chicago’s Ani
Restaurant. As everyone began to finish
their meals, the clouds cleared once again
and we were able to watch the lunar eclipse.
It truly was a very special evening. Thanks
to all that shared it, both in person and in
spirit. Any funds that went beyond the
cost of the bridge will be used to support
selected to go ‘Rolling on the River’ next
summer. Road Scholars (formerly known
as Elderhostel) is inaugurating a historyand-culture excursion up the Mississippi
from St. Louis to St. Paul – and Bruce has
been designated to go along as the on-board
Mark Twain guru. The ship is brand new
and belongs to a French cruise company…
so Bruce has high hopes about what will go
on after hours when his talks are done.
HELAINE SILVERMAN (Anthropology; Director
of CHAMP/Collaborative for Cultural Heritage
Management and Policy) and several colleagues
in other departments have begun a project
entitled “The Mythic Mississippi.” It seeks
to integrate the history and heritage of a
series of important places along the Illinois
stretch of the river into a compelling tourism
circuit that can boost economic development
at these locations while building on the
existing UNESCO World Heritage status
of Cahokia Mounds in Collinsville. Other
targets of investigation are CarthageNauvoo, Quincy (opposite Hannibal,
home of Mark Twain), Alton, Prairie du
Rocher, Cairo and Galena. Professor
Silverman will teach Anth 277-Tourist
Sites in Spring 2017 for CHP, and all CHP
students will be invited to participate in
the project through an additional one-week
4-credit field school course (May 14-21).
CAROL SPINDEL (Rhetoric) published an
essay on the Meridian of Paris in Guernica: A
Magazine of Art and Politics that is accessible
online at: https://www.guernicamag.com/
daily/carol-spindel-a-line-through-theheart-of-paris-the-original-prime-meridian/.
Carol won the CHP’s 2016 BroadrickAllen Award for Excellence in Teaching.
BILLIE JEAN THEIDE (Art and Design) was on
of ten invited artists selected to participate
in the Panevezys International Ceramic
Symposium in Panevezys, Lithuania,
July 1 - 29, 2016. She was also invited to
participate in “I.M.A.G.I.N.E. Peace Now.”
Invitational exhibition at the Wellington B.
Gray Gallery, East Carolina University in
Greenville, NC. November 9, 2016 - January
16, 2017 and the Society of Arts and Crafts
in Boston, MA, February 25-June 10, 2017.
Her work has been acquired by individuals
from St. Louis, New York, California,
Montana, Massachusetts, and Korea.
ARIANA TRAILL (Classics) received the
Campus Executive Officer Distinguished
Leadership Award in May 2016.
MARA WADE (Germanic Languages and
Literature) received the LAS Dean’s Award
for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
in February 2016. She notes that “CHP
certainly was part of this recognition.
I love teaching your students.”
JAMES WARFIELD (Architectural Studies,
Emeritus) was honored in Spring 2016 in
Shanghai at the official launching ceremony
of China’s new preservation quarterly
Heritage Architecture. In a presentations by
Tongji University President Pei Gang and
President Lin Peng of China Publishing
and Media, Professor Warfield was
acknowledged for his “academic prestige
and profound insight” in establishing
the “Warfield Archives of Vernacular
Architecture” in Shanghai and for 25
years of leadership as head of the Illinois/
China Program, the oldest architecture
study abroad program in the College of
Architecture and Urban Planning. Professor
Warfield was also officially appointed
“Advisory Professor in Architecture” at
Tongji University serving the Academic
Committee of Heritage Architecture and
CAUP. His column in the inaugural issue of
HA entitled “Value in the Vernacular” may
be viewed at http://www.jameswarfield.
us/2/Warfield-Column-in-Journal/.
B. JOSEPH WHITE (Business) let us know
that his book, Boards That Excel: Candid
Insights and Practical Advice for Directors,
which was published by Berrett-Koehler of
San Francisco in August 2014, was named
Governance Book of the Year by Directors
and Boards, a journal aimed at corporate
directors, in 2015. His article, “Better
Board Process for Better Corporate Results”
(with William K. Hall of the University
of Michigan), was published by Directors
and Boards in Volume 40 No. 3 (Second
Quarter 2016). He notes that he “loves
teaching my CHP course, Business as a
Force in American Society, because the
students are so talented and, for many, this
is the only business course they will take
in their undergraduate years. It’s easy to
‘hate business’ or ‘love business’ – but by
the end of the term, I think the students
have a considerably nuanced view of the
good and necessary versus the bad and
ugly of the American private sector.”
INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR ARIANA TR AILL , DEPARTMENT
OF CL ASSICS AND PROFESSOR FOR CHP
By CHARLOTTE HUNT, sophomore, LAS Classics
Professor ARIANA TRAILL’s first experience
with the Campus Honors Program came
during her visit to campus as a prospective
faculty member when she met with the now
Director Emeritus Bruce Michelson. From
the way he spoke about the programme,
Professor Traill knew that the type of
instruction desired by CHP – wherein
professors are given opportunities to
pilot new courses and new teaching
ideas – is one also desired by students.
Following her area of specialisation within
Classics, Professor Traill has taught classes
for CHP about Roman Comedy and its
reception. One of her favourite parts about
teaching CHP is the students – from the
“richness of background and life experiences”
they bring to the table and their willingness
to “engage intellectually and emotionally
with new, strange material,” Professor
Traill’s classes have opened both her and
her students up to a variety of new ways of
thinking about literature. Professor Traill also
writing assignment in which students
adapted themes and characters from
ancient comedy for a new genre. She said
the papers she received from her students
went above and beyond her expectations,
ranging from Broadway-style recreations
to a SNL-style sketch comedy adaptation.
Ariana Traill talks with students at Fall Cook-out
notes her appreciation for the supportive
nature of CHP’s administration. With the
financial backing of the programme, she
has been able to take two of her classes to
see productions at the Krannert Center for
Performing Arts, allowing her to integrate
real, live theatre with ancient comedy.
One memory which Professor Traill finds
representative of her experience with CHP
comes from her Fall 2015 class, The Origins
of Western Literature: Roman Comedy and
its Influence. During this class, Professor
Traill was able to pilot a new creative
Professor Traill involves herself with CHP
outside the classroom too. This last
Fall semester she gave a Power Lunch
about Roman food, in which attendees
learnt about the food typical Romans ate
and also tasted some. Alumni/ae might
also remember a previous Power Lunch
about Roman clothing where they tried
some authentic togas on themselves.
We at CHP, from Honors Student Council
to the wider body of CHP students,
would like to thank Professor Traill for
her impressive work with the programme
and say multas gratias tibi agimus!
35
CAMPUS HONORS PROG R AM
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1205 West Oregon Street
Urbana, IL 61801
CHP 30th
Anniversary
Celebration
S AV E T H E D AT E !
The Campus Honors Program is delighted to announce the CHP 30th Anniversary
Celebration for October 14 – 16, 2016 – please mark your calendars!
There will be an informal gathering on Friday night, tours and CHP open house
hours on Saturday, a Reception on Saturday night, and a Sunday brunch.
More info will come in early Fall 2016 – we look forward to seeing you then!
As always, please send all alumni news to
Elizabeth Rockman at [email protected].
CHP alums Jean He, Ryan and
Jennifer Mokos, and Michael Munie
at 25th Anniversary Reception
CHP alums Dollbaum,
Nadolski, and Homann at
25th Anniversary Brunch
CHP alums and guest at 25th
Anniversary Tea Ceremony
at Japan House
Chancellor’s Scholars and
CHP alums in the Honors
House classroom at 25th
Anniversary Celebration
CHP alums Redeker, Austin,
Donnelly, Ullrich, Dombrowski,
Foreman, and Rivas at
20th Anniversary Brunch

CHP Annual 2016 - Campus Honors Program, University of Illinois

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