When Luiz Guimaraes ’91 was a student at Illinois College, he never imagined that his education and experiences on the small campus in central Illinois would ignite an engineering career that would take him around the world.

If you attended Illinois College in the last 55 years, there is a very good chance you took at least one class in Crispin Hall.

Dr. Lawrence Zettler, Hitchcock Professor of Biology, and biology student Collin Walter ’20 took the next steps in ongoing research studying orchids and fungi on Palau, a group of islands in the western Pacific Ocean.

For the first time in her career, Dr. Clare Zimmerman ’11 recently helped her patient, a little girl battling cancer, “ring the bell.”

A successful engineer needs more than an expert understanding of scientific and mathematical principles — one has to have the ability to apply knowledge creatively to innovate and solve problems.