Personality Profiles

Everyone Has a Story- Samples

  • World-Traveled, 42-Year Professor

    The door to finance, insurance, and law in professor Carson Varner’s classroom opens a portal to bygone days. Students are bombarded with historical lectures, whiteboard notes, and physical articles cut from The Wall Street Journal.

    These methods have aced the test of time.

  • LGBT Relationship Resilience

    Semester overload is a breeze compared to the storms sophomore double major Shiann Farrell has weathered.

    Farrell, 19 of Glen Ellyn, has battled family turmoil, depression, and sexuality struggles

  • Documentary Maker Captures Success

    The life of a documentary maker can be plagued by many strikeouts.

    However, School of Communication professor and mass media program director Brent Simonds, of Holdenville, Oklahoma, hit an unforgettable home run with “Sweet Dreams Do Come True.”

  • Youngest Graduate in ISU History Life Update

    At 15, hormones and uncertainty dance in the construction site known as the teenage brain, but not for Isaiah Roberts.

  • International Student Stretches Helping Hand

    Many people are unaware or unconcerned about what happens outside of their backyard. Junior elementary education Hadia Nabulsi, of Willowbrook, views the world through globalized eyes.

  • Path of a Male Nurse

    Male nurses are a rare breed. Fortunately, sophomore nursing major Alex Way realizes that helping others transcends gender norms.