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January 27
All in the family

D3hoops.com ran a story on this year’s on-court sibling rivalry between Forester Danny Nikitas ’18 and his older brother Jamie Nikitas, who attends Lawrence University.
January 26
Multiple offers

Charles “CJ” Black ’16 has landed a prestigious internship with a global trading firm, thanks to skills and a list of professional contacts he is building at Lake Forest.
January 22
Finding the right fit

Hundreds of students stopped in the Mohr Student Center to check out more than 70 clubs and organizations during Forester Fair.
January 20
New student-athlete endowment honors Baracani ’49

The College’s efforts to honor Adolph “Bum” Baracani ’49—a Forester Hall of Fame football player, longtime donor and volunteer—and his eight decades of involvement at Lake Forest are highlighted in an article in the Lake Forester.
January 19
Major gamble

U.S. News & World Report quotes A.B. Dick Professor of Economics and Business Robert Baade in a report on professional sports teams possibly locating in Las Vegas.
January 16
College honored as ‘Community Leader’

Lake Forest College received the 2015 Community Leadership Award from the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Chamber of Commerce.
January 14
Their kind of town

Lake Forest students have settled into their home at Hostelling International in downtown Chicago and kickstarted what will be a semester-long immersion program.
January 13
Mentoring maven

D’Anne Duncan ’04 has a knack for mentoring others. It’s a skill she discovered while majoring in biology at Lake Forest College.
December 22
Poetic license

Associate Professor of English Joshua Corey and Kaisa Cummings ’14 read from their latest published works at the Poetry Foundation’s “Open Door Readings” in Chicago.
December 10
Lake Forest study: birding thrives in Lake County

Lake Forest economics professor and students studied birder habits in Lake County last summer, culminating in a report to the county’s forest preserve district.
December 8
American Foreign Policy at an Age of Retrenchment

President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and former NATO rep, Ivo Daalder, will speak on campus on March 5.
October 8
Women taking charge

Female economics, finance, and business students seeking support in their male-dominant fields shared more than a pizza lunch during an informal meeting of the women in business support group.
August 1
Summer at the Shedd

This summer, Trixie Orozco ’16, participated in a marine biology program with the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. The program included Saturday morning classes on marine biology and culminated in a class trip to the Bahamas.
July 25
Cannabis and rats

Daryn Cass ’10 is credited as the first author in an article—her ninth—published in May by the scientific research journal Molecular Psychiatry.
July 24
In for the long haul

Sometimes, a Richter Scholar research project doesn’t wrap up when the summer program ends.
July 23
Research x 3

Joao Cassamano ’15 is completing his third consecutive summer of research, this time as an intern at a university of science and technology in Germany.
July 22
Conflict in Middle East

Professor of Politics Ghada Talhami was interviewed on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight television show about the recent hostilities between Israel and Hamas.
July 16
For (religion) foodies

Richter Scholar Jessica Chang ’17 is working with Professor Ben Zeller to compile a bibliographic database on the emerging field of religion and food.
July 15
Fruit flies grow fast!

Richter Scholars James Haney ’17 and Lauren Lyon ’17 have spent their summer researching fruit flies alongside Professor Alex Shingleton.
July 15
Protests and potholes

As an intern in the City of Chicago’s 36^th Ward this summer, Kathleen “KC” Stralka ’16 is learning the day-to-day life of a public servant.
July 14
NY Times quotes Applebaum

Lecturer in finance Michelle Applebaum comments on the U.S. steelworkers strike of 1959 as The New York Times revisits the event 55 years later.
July 8
Chicago Trib talks to Odugu

Assistant Professor of Education Desmond Odugu, a Nigerian native, comments on his compatriots’ emotional connection to their national anthem during the FIFA World Cup.
June 29
Personal Finance

Professor Les Dlabay is co-author of the 11^th edition of Personal Finance, a textbook that has been used at more than 900 colleges and universities.
June 25
Thinking globally

Students from the Latin American Global Business Senior Seminar attended two programs presented by the International Trade Association of Greater Chicago.
June 20
What’s best for the fam

Professor Amanda Felkey, who specializes in household economics, offered comments for this WalletHub study examining the best cities for families.
June 20
Woman of the Year

Becky Esrock ’14 of the women’s soccer team was named the Midwest Conference’s Woman of the Year. She double majored in economics and international relations at the College.
June 18
Can you read Portuguese?

Then check out A.B. Dick Professor of Economics and Business Rob Baade’s interview with Estadão about the economic impact of the Olympics in Brazil.
June 14
Lucky seven

Fifteen students engaged in research this summer attended a regional pharmacology meeting and brought home recognition for the seventh straight year.
June 13
Interview with Talhami

Politics professor emerita Ghada Hashem Talhami discussed on Uprising Radio the sexual assaults that followed the inauguration of Egypt’s new President.
June 12
Wave-ing from Scotland

Alyssa Conway ’15, a physics major, is researching gravitational wave physics this summer as part of a competitive internship program through the National Science Foundation.