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Men's Lacrosse Draws Newberry in NCAA Tournament First Round
After capturing the 2026 Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship, the º£½ÇÉçÇø men's lacrosse team was picked as the fourth overall seed in the South Region in the 2026 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament and will face fifth-seeded Newberry on May 10  in the first round.  Lewis faced Newberry earlier  [MORE]  [PHOTO] 

Women's Golf Qualifies for NCAA Division II East Regional
The º£½ÇÉçÇø women's golf team has qualified for the NCAA Division II East Regional, the NCAA announced April 26. It is the first appearance for the Flyers since 2022.  The regional will take place at Findlay Country Club in Findlay, Ohio, May 4-6. Lewis, which enters as the No. 9 seed, is making  [MORE]  [PHOTO] 

Flyers Claim GLVC Title After Dominant Three-Day Performance
The Flyers capped off a dominant weekend by claiming the 2026 GLVC Outdoor Track & Field Championship, totaling 154 points to narrowly edge Southwest Baptist (150) on the final day of competition. In the field events,  Denise Hernandez  (Naperville, Ill./Naperville North HS)  secured a runner-up finish  [MORE]  [PHOTO] 

Senior Student Art on Display May 7-17
Senior Student Art On Display At Wadsworth Family Gallery Starting May 7 The Senior Capstone Art Exhibition will be on display at the Brent and Jean Wadsworth Family Gallery May 7-17, 2026. This exhibition is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. daily. This biannual art show showcases art  [MORE] 

Lewis Students Earn Awards at National Math Conference
º£½ÇÉçÇø students Luke and Zach Pekol brought home the 2026 Pi Mu Epsilon Student Speaker Award for their exceptional presentations at the largest gathering of mathematicians in the world. The Pekol brothers were among four º£½ÇÉçÇø undergraduate students who recently presented research  [MORE]  [PHOTO] 

History Students Published in Armstrong Journal
Two º£½ÇÉçÇø history majors have recently achieved significant scholarly milestones, by publishing original research in the peer-reviewed Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History . Henry Gilson, a history major at º£½ÇÉçÇø, published an article titled “ Holocaust Memorialization & Memory:  [MORE] 

Women's Golf Collects Team Sportsmanship Award
The regionally ranked º£½ÇÉçÇø women's golf team had two players earn All-Great Lakes Valley Conference accolades  Kendall Farm  (Carol Stream, Ill./West Chicago)  was named an All-GLVC First Team selection and  Kyra Simon  (Rockford, Illinois)  took home All-GLVC Second Team accolades. As a  [MORE]  [PHOTO] 

º£½ÇÉçÇø Hosts and Wins Big at DataFest 2026
Three teams from º£½ÇÉçÇø earned awards during the American Statistical Association DataFest 2026, a 48-hour data science competition that brought together students and faculty from across the region. º£½ÇÉçÇø hosted the event April 9–11 on its Romeoville campus for the undergraduate  [MORE] 

º£½ÇÉçÇø Celebrates Exemplary Employee Service
º£½ÇÉçÇø hosted the 34th Annual Celebration of Service on April 16, recognizing dedicated employees for their years of service on our campus. Employees were recognized for 10, 20, 25, 30, 35, and 40 years of service, as well as retirements from this past year. The Office of Mission & Identity  [MORE] 

Professor Ian Gladding Named Fulbright Specialist
º£½ÇÉçÇø’s Dr. Ian Gladding has been appointed to the Fulbright Specialist Program . This notable honor comes from the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s international educational exchange initiative that matches U.S. academics with institutions abroad for short-term collaborative projects.  [MORE] 

Innovative DNA Research Published by º£½ÇÉçÇø Alumni
The research results of º£½ÇÉçÇø Mathematics Alumni Philiffe Tebalan and Evan Burns were recently published in the Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal . “ Graph Theoretical Modeling of Self-Assembling DNA of the Double Cone Graph ” explores how mathematical modeling can be used to improve  [MORE] 

Bamburac Earns º£½ÇÉçÇø Master’s Degree at Age 15
Benyamin “Beny” Bamburac continues to make academic history as he earns a Master of Science in Computer Science from º£½ÇÉçÇø during the Afternoon Graduate Degree Commencement Ceremony on May 15 for the College of Aviation, Science and Technology. At just 15 years old, Bamburac’s achievement  [MORE]