Updates
Updated on: 6.28.2023
Lanie Cooper Kepler ’12, Brady Kepler ’12 and Bailey Cooper ’18
founded the KASE Project. It is a central Illinois non-profit dedicated to supporting the autism community. They installed a playground communication board at Southwind Park in Springfield for children with limited verbal speech to enjoy the park with their peers.
Births
Updated on: 5.26.2020
Jeremy ’04 and Sarah Strack Briggs ’06,
a daughter, Harper Eleanor, December 11, 2019.
Updates
Updated on: 1.20.2021
Lindley Hanley '02
was a recipient of the JPMorgan Chase National Achiever Award as a top producer in private banking and wealth management. She was previously honored with the award four times while working in Laguna Beach, California.
Updates
Updated on: 8.16.2023
Leslieann Harris ’14
started a new position as first-gen program specialist at Georgia Southern University.
Updates
Updated on: 8.16.2023
Elizabeth (Katie) Bernardi ’14
started a new position as manager of account management with Roundel Media, re-imagined by Target.
Updates
Updated on: 8.16.2023
Will Barefield ’13
started a new position as dean of enrollment management at City Colleges of Chicago, Kennedy-King College.
Updates
Updated on: 8.16.2023
Ryan Blesse ’13
wrapped up his professional certificate in Google Project Management.
Updates
Updated on: 8.16.2023
Carmen Kremitzki Umberger ’13
won the MWACE Diversity Advancement Founders Award for her advocacy and work for first generation students at Bradley University.
Updates
Updated on: 8.16.2023
Djenan (Mouna) Soumahoro ’12
began a Ph.D. program in nuclear engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Updates
Updated on: 8.16.2023
Rachel Macon ’11
obtained a new professional certification, SHRM-CP.
Updates
Updated on: 8.16.2023
Jeremy Hommowun ’11
passed the Certified Technology Specialist exam with AVIXA.
Updates
Updated on: 8.16.2023
Eric Hiatt ’11
was elected national vice president of the JCI USA (U.S. Junior Chamber), and was the 2022 recipient of the Central Illinois Business Magazine Forty Under 40 Award.
Updates
Updated on: 8.16.2023
Joshua Slaughterback ’08
started as an account manager with Electric Power Engineers.
Updates
Updated on: 8.16.2023
Sarah Keller ’07
started a new position as a senior staff accountant at Caterpillar.
Updates
Updated on: 8.16.2023
Julia Legate ’06
earned a Doctorate of Educational Leadership in May 2022. Her dissertation was titled, “Pre-K and Kindergarten Teachers Perceptions of Kindergarten Readiness.”
Updates
Updated on: 8.14.2023
Rebecca Vortman ’05
was promoted to associate department head for the Department of Population Health Nursing Science at University of Illinois Chicago.
Updates
Updated on: 8.14.2023
Ben Tobin ’05
was awarded Best Attorney and his law office, Pratt & Tobin P.C., won the Best Law Office category at the “Best of the Best” event hosted by the two newspapers that serve the Metro East side of St. Louis.
Updates
Updated on: 8.14.2023
Blake Stadel ’05
received the Silver Dome Award for Personality of the Year for medium-sized markets from the Illinois Broadcasters Association. Blake hosts the "DBR Morning Show with DJ Blake" for WDBR-FM in Springfield.
Updates
Updated on: 8.14.2023
Danielle Doerfler ’04
was promoted to director of athletics at Fontbonne University.
Updates
Updated on: 8.14.2023
Michael T. Bendorf ’04
was promoted to director of divisional technology and operations for the division of external relations at Illinois College.
Updates
Updated on: 8.14.2023
Burel Goodin ’02,
professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Psychology, is part of a group that has been awarded $21 million from the National Institute of Health HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) Initiative to establish a new national center aimed at disseminating accurate information about the opioid crisis to the public.
Updates
Updated on: 8.14.2023
Dan Wright ’01,
Sangamon County State’s Attorney, was named to the Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instruction in Criminal Cases.
Updates
Updated on: 8.14.2023
Tim Laffey ’00
performed stand-up comedy in Jacksonville in September in a show produced by Belly Laffs Comedy. He was joined by comedians from the region including St. Louis, Chicago, Springfield and Peoria.