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Patsy Parker

Women in History Spotlight: Patsy Parker

Patsy Parker graduated from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1968. During her junior year in the spring semester of 1967, she became the first female to be elected student body president at the University of Illinois.

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Alumni Spotlight: Pronoy Rai

Dr. Pronoy Rai (Ph.D. Geography, 2018) GRID Alumnus and 2015 Recipient of the Rita and Arnold Goodman Fellowship is currently an assistant professor at Portland State University. His research interests include human-environment geographies, development and labor migration, gender and masculinities, agro-ecological change and South Asia.