Jeff Link

Chicago

Journalist and Writer at Freelance

Senior Editor at Toptal

Senior editor @toptal. Journalist and former contributor @fastcompany @WIRED @architect @dwell. He/him.

Articles

Loyola graduating Class of 2025 called to be ‘diligent dreamers’

6 days ago | news.luc.edu | Jeff Link

Cameras flashed and hollers erupted in Gentile Arena on Wednesday afternoon as Loyola University Chicago graduates in black and maroon gowns and tasseled caps strode across the podium to receive their diplomas, crossing a symbolic threshold to the next chapter in their lives.
After Pope Francis’s death, reflections turn toward a pivotal conclave

1 week ago | news.luc.edu | Jeff Link

Some 250,000 mourners flooded St. Peter’s Square on Saturday morning to bid farewell to Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pontiff, known for his humility and inclusive pastoral vision. Among them was Natalie Dominguez (BA ’27), a sophomore taking Italian Baroque art, film, and philosophy classes at the John Felice Rome Center.
Regina Conway-Phillips (MSN ’94, PhD ’11) reflects on a career of service

2 weeks ago | news.luc.edu | Jeff Link

When 73-year-old Regina Conway-Phillips (MSN ’94, PhD ’11) was in kindergarten, her teacher told the class to draw pictures showing what they wanted to be when they grew up. With little hesitation, she drew a stick figure wearing a white dress and a nursing cap, a prescient self-portrait of a girl who found her calling at an early age.
Ramblers reflect and prepare for new horizons

3 weeks ago | news.luc.edu | Jeff Link

A.J. Dan (BS ’25)College of Arts and Sciences Majors: Criminal Justice and CriminologyHometown: Saint Paul, MinnesotaTwo memories jump out to A.J. Dan (BS ’25), a criminal justice and criminology major, when reflecting on his time as a student at Loyola. His first is serving meals to the hungry at the St. Thomas of Canterbury Soup Kitchen in Uptown on Friday nights through Loyola’s Community Service in Action program.
How a Loyola alum built the world's first touch-sensing bionic hand

3 weeks ago | news.luc.edu | Jeff Link

In summer 2014, Aadeel Akhtar (BS ’07, MS ’08) arrived in Quito, Ecuador, for his first test of a bionic hand prototype on an amputee. In partnership with the Range of Motion Project, a nonprofit that provides prosthetic devices to people who can’t afford them, Akhtar and a fellow researcher embarked on the trip to test the device on Juan Suquillo, a former soldier in the Ecuadorian Army, who, in 1989, had lost his left hand in a landmine explosion.
Tornado researcher Karen Kosiba (BS '99) has her eye on the storm

1 month ago | news.luc.edu | Jeff Link

“You want to be semi in the path of a tornado, a couple of kilometers away,” explains Karen Kosiba (BS ’99), managing director of the FARM (flexible array of radars and mesonets) research facility at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. “There’s something called the hook, and the tornado forms at the bottom of that.
Alum's business Bookclub brings underground music to the masses

1 month ago | news.luc.edu | Jeff Link

By artists, for artistsStacey’s time as a student at Loyola’s Quinlan School of Business has played a role in the business decisions he has had to make to get Bookclub off the ground. But even more important to his evolution as a musical entrepreneur was “the programming that I was able to enjoy beyond Quinlan that inspired me to figure out what the heck I was going to do after graduating,” he says.
At Volkswagen, Pablo Di Si (BA ’94) paved the way for a greener future

1 month ago | news.luc.edu | Jeff Link

This past fall, Pablo Di Si (BA ’94) led the U.S. rollout of the Volkswagen I.D. Buzz, an electrified update of the iconic VW Bus that became a symbol of 1960s American counterculture, transporting a generation of outsiders and activists to Grateful Dead shows, protest rallies, and polling stations. But the transformational work of the charismatic Loyola finance major extends beyond advancing the legacy automaker toward a decarbonized future.
Match Day: Class of 2025 opens envelopes that change their lives

1 month ago | news.luc.edu | Jeff Link

On Friday, March 1, cheers erupted in the Loyola Center for Fitness as fourth-year medical students at the Stritch School of Medicine tore open envelopes containing letters that would change their lives. As maroon and gold balloons fell from the rafters, classmates, family members, and friends embraced, clinked champagne flutes, wept, and quite literally, jumped for joy.
How ESPN's Shams Charania (BA '17) became the NBA's scoop king

1 month ago | news.luc.edu | Jeff Link

Just after 11:00 p.m. Central Time on Feb. 1, Shams Charania (BA ’17) got a tip that the Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Lakers were making a trade. He confirmed the details with five sources. By 11:12 p.m., the 30-year-old ESPN Senior NBA Insider was ready to take the story to X. “BREAKING,” he wrote. “The Dallas Mavericks are trading Luka Dončić, Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round pick, sources tell ESPN.