Hannah Kim packed up and headed to Savannah, GA this fall to pursue her dream of becoming an artist. She’s now studying sequential art at the Savannah College of Art and Design. We caught up with Hannah to hear how her first year is going, and why she enjoys being a Pullman Scholar What […]
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Even as a child growing up in a tiny New Zealand town, David Hovey (Illinois Institute of Technology ‘67) knew he wanted to become an architect. “There were about 900 people in my hometown, and 100 students in my grade school,” he recalls. “One day, during a parent-teacher conference, the headmaster told my parents that […]
Weronika Rybarska headed to Illinois State University this fall to study business management. She loves campus, but also loves to travel and expand her horizons. Read on to see how her first year is going and what being a Pullman Scholar means to her. What drew you to your college? The one thing that […]
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Taofeeq Rasaki enrolled at the University of Southern California this fall to study mechanical engineering. With a passion for aviation guiding his goals, he is already involved in several engineering clubs on campus and starting to conduct research. We checked in with Taofeeq to see how his first year is going and to ask what […]
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Sherwin Greenblatt enrolled at MIT […]
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Dr. Duick (Knox College ’68) co-founded Kansas Heart Hospital in 1999 […]
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For Julissa Garcia, her family home is more than just the house where she was raised. It’s a symbol of who she is, what she has accomplished, and who she knows she will become. Julissa’s parents grew up in a small farm village in Mexico where they raised livestock and grew agave. Their belief in […]
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When the Peter Stange arrived in Chicago as a refugee, he had little money and struggled with English. Peter exceled academically in high school, earning him a Pullman Foundation Scholarship to attend DePaul University. Now, Dr. Stang is a pioneer of organic chemistry research, earning him the United States National Medal of Science in 2010. […]
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