Hometown: Adel, IowaMajor: MarketingFuture Plans: Career in marketing

Madison Siefken enjoys the small campus environment and valuable opportunities at the University of Illinois Springfield. Siefken is a member of the UIS Volleyball team and works as a content creator for the UIS Office of Media Strategy. She chose UIS because of the location and the athletics program. After graduation, Siefken plans to start her career in the marketing field.

Leadership is lived at UIS. Every Day.

The University of Illinois Springfield has been named a Voter Friendly Campus for 2025-26 by the Fair Elections Center’s Campus Vote Project and NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. This marks the third time UIS has earned the designation.

Aden Marucco of Taylorville, Illinois, has been admitted to the University of Illinois Springfield for the fall semester of 2025 and awarded a $16,000 Star Scholar Award for tuition over four years. At UIS, he will major in political science.

The scholarship is awarded based on high school GPA and can be renewed if the student maintains college GPA requirements.

In high school, he was involved in FFA and worked as the school’s greenhouse manager.  

3.24.25

Happy Monday, UIS—