Riley Parks, from Fisher, Ill., graduated from Illinois in May with a bachelor’s degree in English along...
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Jonathan Phalen, who graduated in May with degrees in English and secondary education, has accepted a Fulbright/America for Bulgaria Foundation English teaching assistant award. The program aims to...