Profiles
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Working for a better workplace
Labor leader Reuben Soderstrom’s legacy extends beyond the movement to here on campus.
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Child of war, man of peace
Shozo Sato, the founder of Japan House and director emeritus, always paints with a purpose.
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Illinois storytellers: Heather Dowdy
Heather Dowdy (GRAINGER ’06), Netflix’s first director of product accessibility, sees a future where accessibility is a fundamental step in achieving equity.
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Rooted in the game
For Coleman Hawkins, Fighting Illini power forward, family is at the heart of everything.
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Illinois storytellers: Nariah Romero-Rudy
The Illinois Commitment scholarship program made an Illinois education possible for Nariah Romero-Rudy (LAS ’23).
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Terrell Jermaine Starr
Armed with a U.S. passport, an intellectual curiosity, and a willingness to help, journalist Terrell Jermaine Starr (LAS ’09, MEDIA ’09) shares a rarely told perspective of the war in Ukraine.
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The attitude of gratitude
Barry L. Houser, director of the Marching Illini, answers the Proust Questionnaire.
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Curiosities: Series 7
In this seventh installment of Curiosities, we examine our connections to three films regarded by many to be landmark contributions to the entire filmmaking cannon.
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Reporting with an anthropologist’s eye
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism professor Leon Dash answers the Proust Questionnaire.