CIA is recruiting Lewis University students and alumni

On Feb. 26, representatives from the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, DC made a presentation on the National Clandestine Service to about 60 students and alumni on the Lewis University main campus in Romeoville. The presentation was the first of its kind at Lewis University, and was offered as a recruiting event for the CIA, sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Office of Career Services at Lewis University. The mission of the CIA is to collect, analyze, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence to assist the U.S. President and senior U.S. government policymakers in making decisions relating to national security. Many units within the CIA are devoted to collecting information that reveals the plans, intentions and capabilities of our adversaries and provides   [MORE]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Guaranteed med-school seats open for Lewis Biology students
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) recently began an early acceptance program with Lewis University. The program offers Lewis University students an opportunity to receive a provisional letter of acceptance to medical, pharmacy or dental  [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Joliet Area Historical Museum exhibit has help from Lewis
Dr. Dennis Cremin, history professor and director of the Lewis University History Center , recently described how Lewis University has partnered with the Joliet Area Historical Museum for the “The Emergence of Modern Joliet: Art, Industry & Urbanization”  [MORE]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Improvised play takes center stage March 11
Lewis University will host the Improvised Shakespeare Company as the third performance of the Spring 2014 Performing Arts Series. The performance will be held at 7:30 p.m. March 11 in the Philip Lynch Theatre on the university’s main campus in Romeoville.  [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Heritage Theatre Company hosts 24-Hour Theatre Festival
Lewis University’s Heritage Theatre Company (HTC) is proud to host a “24 Hour Theatre Festival a.k.a. Black Box Blowout” on Friday and Saturday, March 14 and 15. The new Studio Theatre, nicknamed the “black box,” is a theater with a very simple design,  [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Women's Basketball will face UMSL in NCAA Midwest Regional
The No. 11 Lewis University women's basketball team will make their second-straight appearance in the NCAA Division II Championship Tournament when the second-seeded Flyers take on the seventh-seeded Missouri-St. Louis on Friday (March 14). Top-seeded  [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Brawner-Henley is GLVC Women's Basketball Player of the Year
Lewis University sophomore Mariyah Brawner-Henley (Skokie, Ill./Niles North) has been named the 2014 Great Lakes Valley Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year, the conference announced on Tuesday (March 4). She is the first Flyer since Darcee  [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Lewis University Mock Trial Team gets 14th national bid
The Lewis University Mock Trial Team has earned a bid to the national American Mock Trial Association tournament for the 14th time in less than 20 years. The Lewis team will compete in the Opening Round Championship March 14-16 at Washington University  [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Five students earn nursing scholarships
Lewis University College of Nursing and Health Professions has been selected as one of 52 schools to receive grant funding from the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program (NCIN). During the 2013-2014  [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

International student experience increases in demand
According to Longview Foundation and Asia Society data on www.mappingthenation.net , almost 2 million jobs in Illinois are tied to international trade. That’s a 104 percent increase from 1992. But the global ties don’t end at the workplace in Illinois.  [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Men's Track and Field sends four to NCAA Indoor Championship
The NCAA announced on Tuesday (March 4) that the No. 23 Lewis University men's track and field team will send four student-athletes to compete in five different events at the upcoming NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships. Lewis' qualifiers  [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Two set for NCAA Women's Indoor Track & Field Championships
The NCAA announced on Tuesday (March 4) that Lewis University freshman Amanda Farrough (South Bend, Ind./Clay) and senior Megan Marchildon (Ypsilanti, Mich./Lincoln Consolidated) have both qualified for the NCAA Division II Women's Indoor Track and Field  [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Chronic lung diseases lecture is March 13
Lewis University College of Nursing & Health Professions and Northwestern Memorial Hospital present Dr. Ankit Bharat, thoracic surgeon and assistant professor, for a discussion about the Spectrum of Chronic Lung Diseases in the United States at 7 p.m.  [MORE]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

MYSO concerts are March 19 and March 23
The Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO) will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 19 at the St. Charles Borromeo Chapel on the Lewis University Main Campus in Romeoville. This concert is open to the public and is free. The orchestra will  [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

The Pope Francis impact will be discussed by John Allen Jr.
“The Francis Revolution: Taking Stock of the New Pope at the One-Year Mark” will be presented by John Allen Jr., Vatican correspondent and senior Vatican analyst for CNN. The Twelfth Annual Signum Fidei Lecture at Lewis University begins at 2 p.m. March  [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Men's Track and Field wins 2014 GLVC Indoor Championship
The Lewis University men's track and field team won four events and set three conference records to claim its first Great Lakes Valley Conference Indoor Track and Field Championship in nine years at the University of Indianapolis' Athletics & Recreation  [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Women's Track & Field breezes to GLVC Indoor Championship
For the third time in the last five years, the Lewis University women's track and field team can claim indoor supremacy, as the Flyers won the 2014 Great Lakes Valley Conference Indoor Championships at the University of Indianapolis' Athletics & Recreation  [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Illinois College Press Association honors The Flyer
Editors from The Flyer student newspaper were recognized with six awards by the Illinois College Press Association at the organization’s annual journalism convention Feb. 22 at the Doubletree Hotel in Chicago. Student journalists from four-year colleges  [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Women & Minorities Aviation Spring Conference is April 5
Find out how to launch a career in aviation at the 2014 Women & Minorities Aviation Spring Conference from 10 a.m.-1p.m. Saturday, April 5 in the Lewis University Harold E. White Aviation Center located on the university’s main campus in Romeoville.   [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Computer Science students win programming award
Lewis University Computer Science students continued to earn honors during the annual Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area programming competition on Feb. 22 at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Ill. “We are very proud that Lewis teams  [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Improve your net worth with proper accounting methods
Investors can improve their net worth by selecting the proper accounting methods to manage their investments. Lewis University finance professors Dr. Robert Atra, CFA, and Dr. Yuntaek Pae, CFA, coauthored a study about the benefits from Highest In, First  [MORE]  [COMMENTS(0)] 

Nearly 300 people connect with potential employers at fair
Close to 300 Lewis University students and alumni participated in the Job/Internship Fair on Feb. 21 presented by the university’s Career Services Office. More than 60 employers were on campus to recruit Lewis students and alumni for professional  [MORE]  [PHOTO]  [COMMENTS(0)]