This past summer, undergraduate student Haley Tholen completed an internship on a Caribbean island called Curacao in alignment with Dr. Amy Wagoner Johnson's research for coral reef restoration using additive manufacturing techniques. Before leaving the country for a few months, Haley decided to get certified in scuba diving so that she could see the environment for which she was striving to improve with her own eyes. "It was a dream come true for me," she says. "Not only was

Haley Tholen was one of 750 incredibly lucky Urbana Campus students out of 22,000 applicants to have the opportunity to attend former President Barrack Obama's speech on Friday, Sept. 7th, 2018. Political figures present included Senator Dick Durbin, Governor Candidate J.B. Pritzker, and Lieutenant Governor Candidate Juliana Stratton. Haley met and had a photo Robert J. Jones, the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Timothy Kileen, President of the U