Storied

Heather Dowdy (GRAINGER ’06), Netflix’s first director of product accessibility, sees a future where accessibility is a fundamental step in achieving equity.

Known as the Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, Ann Thayer Weldy (LAS ’54), helped readers find comfort—and themselves—in her books.

For Coleman Hawkins, Fighting Illini power forward, family is at the heart of everything.

Professor Wendy Rogers and other leading Illinois faculty are using the McKechnie Family LIFE Home to define the future of independent living for all ages and abilities.

The Illinois Commitment scholarship program made an Illinois education possible for Nariah Romero-Rudy (LAS ’23).

As University Laboratory High School, also known as Uni, celebrates its one hundred year anniversary, we take the time to marvel at an enduring tradition.

Barry L. Houser, director of the Marching Illini, answers the Proust Questionnaire.

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.

Vilas Dhar (GRAINGER ’04), president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, believes in investing in technology that can create lasting social change.

To help save our planet, recent Illinois graduate and first-year PhD student Edgar Mejia sees the potential in recycling the impossible.