News & Events

The women’s swimming & diving team ended Grinnell College’s 13-year reign as conference champions, finishing 54 points ahead of the runners-up at the 2012 Midwest Conference Championships over the weekend. Becky Shaak ’13, Sam Gardner ’13, and Head Coach Vadim Tashlitsky ’00 all earned individual conference recognition as well. The Foresters finished the weekend with 21 first-place performances, more than the other eight teams in the league combined. Also, the Forester men placed second behind Grinnell for the third straight season.

Over the weekend, the Forester men’s basketball team clinched the regular-season Midwest Conference championship while also setting the all-time program record for wins in a single season. The Foresters have two games remaining and will host the conference tournament on Feb. 24-25.

The best-selling author of Freakonomics, Steve Levitt, will be the keynote speaker to kick off Homecoming, Reunion, and Family Weekend, October 4-6.

Bilal is the College’s artist-in-residence February 13-16. The opening exhibition is Feb. 16 in the Sonnenschein Gallery on North Campus.

The theme of the 8th Annual Lake Forest Literary Festival is “The New Nature Writing.” We’ll host a bevy of poets and prose writers whose work explores, often from surprising angles, questions of place, the nature of home, and ecology. 

First-year and sophomore students attend the first of several events in February aimed at helping them “find their passion” and start creating an academic and career plan.

A two-week interactive photography event, sponsored by the College’s Islamic World Studies program, asks tough questions of the viewer and his prejudices about the developing world. 

The Lake Forest men’s basketball team victory earlier this week against Illinois College was their 15th consecutive victory, the longest streak in team history. The Foresters are now 15-1 overall and 11-0 in Midwest Conference play. The Foresters hope to extend their winning streak when they host second-place Grinnell College (14-1, 10-1 MWC) Saturday afternoon at 3:00.

More than 50 new students came to Lake Forest College this semester and nearly 100 students returned from their off-campus study adventures, while 75 students headed off campus to spend this semester in New Zealand, China, Italy, Chicago, and elsewhere.

Daniella Brutman `12 and Madhavi Senagolage `12 presented at the national Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting in Washington, DC November 12-16, 2011. 

The economist, anthropologist, and rhetorician join a group of highly accomplished scholars and teachers at Lake Forest.

Leigh Anne (Furgerson) Ihnken ‘04 made the magazine’s list in the category of science for her work at GlaxoSmithKline, where she and a colleague are using synthetic biology to make pharmaceutical chemistry less expensive and less harmful to the environment.

Director of Athletics Jackie Slaats announced that Jim Catanzaro has officially been named the Foresters’ head football coach. Catanzaro had been the program’s interim head coach since April 2009. Under Catanzaro’s direction, the 2011 Foresters scored more points and gained more yards per game than any previous team in program history. Slaats also announced that Heather Noll will be the next head coach of the Forester volleyball team.

Take a look back at some of the newsmakers and experts from Lake Forest College during 2011, including Associate Professor of English Davis Schneiderman, whose essay about fatherhood made the Huff Post.

Dave Beran ‘03 joins a growing list of Foresters who have made names for themselves for their passions and extraordinary achievements. 

Lake Forest College’s Relay For Life was awarded the American Cancer Society’s prestigious Top Net Income Growth and All-Star Awards at the Society’s recent Relay Leadership Summit in Itasca, Ill. 

Lake Forest College junior, Ally Bain, was presented the Lincoln Laureate Award at the Old State Capitol Historic Site in Springfield.

Lake Forest College women’s hockey player Maeve Connelly was named Northern Collegiate Hockey Association Player of the Week on Tuesday after scoring a pair of game-winning goals against UW-Eau Claire over the weekend.

The theater and music department’s recent production of “Pirates of Penzance,” held at the local Gorton Community Center, was a huge hit. One attendee wrote, “…tonight was one of the great entertainments I’ve seen almost ever. The group in front of the curtain, and behind the curtain were just spectacular.” 

Growing numbers of Lake Forest students, faculty, and staff are volunteering in elementary schools in North Chicago, thanks in large part to a collaboration with the Gorter Family Foundation.

The double English and business major’s pieces appear in Alice Blue Review.

The fall Chicago Ambassador trip took place on Sunday, October 23, and this time students had to use some muscle to participate.

On Oct 14, fourteen Lake Forest College students presented biology, neuroscience, psychology, and environmental studies research at the 21st Annual Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics at Argonne National Laboratory. Nearly 300 students, teachers, and scientists attended the symposium, and over 130 students presented original scholarship, from colleges and universities across the nation.

One of Chicago’s premiere Indie bands rocks the Chapel Nov. 5.

Eukaryon, Lake Forest’s scientific research journal, seeks artist to illustrate the cover of its eighth edition.

Amanda Muledy ‘13 is among a handful of transfer students nationwide to be selected for this special honor.

The College welcomes thousands of people to campus this weekend for its homecoming festivities, including alumni reunions and family weekend. Plenty of events for friends and families of all ages are welcome to join. 

Lake Forest College is pleased to announce that this year’s Volwiler lecturer will be Dr. Charles S. Zuker of Columbia University. His lecture titled “From the Tongue to the Brain: The Biology of Mammalian Taste” also serves as the Keynote Address of the 2011 Brain Awareness Week at the college and will take place on Thursday, November 10 in Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel at 8:00 p.m.