Engagement Opportunities
Our alumni often return to campus (in person and virtually) to share their career experiences and advice with students. Opportunities to interact with alumni include at events hosted by the Richard and Leslie Frank Center for Leadership and Innovation in Media as well as our Media Career Night panels.
Watch some of our recent events with Journalism alumni:
The University of Illinois also hosts big names in science as part of campus conferences, workshops, and other events. For example, at a conference on science communication, the Beckman Institute at Illinois hosted Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist for The Atlantic. Watch Yong’s talk on “Why storytelling matters on science” and other videos from the science communication conference:
Sandra Tsing Loh, host of the syndicated daily radio science minute and NPR podcast The Loh Down on Science, presented a science communication workshop on campus. Watch her lecture “Towards Better 60 Second Science.”
Safiya Noble, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumna, UCLA professor, and MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient, discussed the racial, gender, and class politics infused in today’s digital technologies as part of an online lecture series. Hear Noble’s talk “Taking on Big Tech” with insights from her bestselling book, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism.
Liz Neeley, former executive director of The Story Collider podcast, CEO of Liminal and a co-founder of Solving For Science, has also presented at Illinois. Watch her talk on “The Power of Personal Stories about Science.”