Archives Exhibits | Archives & Special Collections | Illinois Math and Science Academy

In addition to curating collections and providing access to them both physically and digitally, the Archives also creates various exhibits from its collections for engaging with the IMSA community, and it provides programmatic support to the larger community through its popular exhibits at the annual alumni reunion as well as short-term exhibits for special occasions and events.

In 2018, thanks to the generosity of the Hansen-Furnas Foundation, Archives was able to purchase a dedicated display case for sharing its archival collections with the IMSA community. Archives also has access to two other display cases, one for a semi-permanent Lederman display and the other for open storage, making more of the collections visible.

Here then follows a partial record of the Archives’ exhibits and displays.

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INSPIRED T-SHIRTS

Christian D. Nokkentved

Over the years, legions of t-shirts have been designed by Faculty, staff and students. The Archives has a rich collection of IMSA Apparel, as a previous exhibit also shows. The shirts on display in this exhibit were designed by or with student input (except for one).
IMSA Ornament Collection

Christian D. Nøkkentved

Tradition of the IMSA Holiday Ornament
by Dr. Stephanie Pace Marshall

December 12, 2007

When an institution is created "from scratch," there are few stories and no traditions. It quickly became apparent that we needed to both capture the powerful emergent stories of IMSA's courageous creation and ... Read More
High Tech High: Computing in Our Early Days

Christian D. Nøkkentved and Ralph Flickinger

In 1986, when IMSA first opened its doors to students, Plato, NovaNET, MacIntosh Plus and the Dat. Lab, even track paper all played an essential role in connecting IMSA to the emerging digital world. IMSA’s library, for example, boasted digital technology on par with the ... Read More
Archives’ Open Storage

Christian D. Nøkkentved

What a strange exhibit! There appears to be neither rhyme nor reason to what is here. Well, truth be told, this is not an exhibit. What you see here are artifacts or documents or images that are not part of an exhibit, and what is ... Read More
IMSA Royalty: Celebrating Students’ Long History of Inclusion

Christian D. Nøkkentved

From Jenny and Philip (’94), Ola and Sadie (‘96), Natalie and Nate (’06), to so many other royals, IMSA student have elected diverse Homecoming and Prom kings and queens, as this exhibit of yearbook photos illustrates. The exhibit covers most of the years from 1989 to 2014.
Student Voices: Publications from the Archives

Christian D. Nøkkentved

Here we see, among others, copies of The Rice Bowl, The Gender Reader, Minority Report, RYE (a student satire magazine), and, of course The Acronym, in fact the very first issue. Some only had short runs, others lasted for years and the oldest continuing publication ... Read More
IMSA Apparel

Christian D. Nøkkentved

IMSA students exhibit a high degree of creativity when they design tee-shirts, like the one for Harambee, or Jazz Band, or Senior Class club. And then there are sports uniforms. Did you know that one of the early teams had a corduroy baseball cap. All ... Read More
Remember 1994

Christian D. Nøkkentved

In the Summer of 2022, Rich Bergstrom (class of 1994) asked that the Archives store the time capsule that his class had put together before they graduated. Per the plan, the capsule was opened at the 20 – year reunion, a few things were added, ... Read More
Postcards from Abroad

Christian D. Nøkkentved

The postcards came from all corners of the wide, wide world, Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. IMSA students and alumni/ae sent them with pictures of places they were visiting to Dr. Nokkentved, who added them to his collection (now in the Archives). This exhibit ... Read More
In Memory of Dr. Leon Lederman

Christian D. Nøkkentved

Dr. Leon Lederman was born 15 July, 1922 and passed away on 3 October, 2018. Dr. Lederman’s ideas expressed in the Urne Report (digitalcommons.imsa.edu/imsa_history/1/) led to the founding of IMSA in 1985 with the Charter Class arriving on campus in September of 1986.
Leon Lederman, Honoring our Founder

Christian D. Nøkkentved

To honor Dr. Leon Lederman (15 July 1922-3 October 2018), a Nobel Laureate and former Director of Fermi Lab, and most importantly one of the founders of IMSA. After retiring as director of Fermi Lab, Dr. Lederman served as our resident scientist. In that capacity, ... Read More
IMSA and The Wide, Wide World*

Christian D. Nøkkentved

Grace Yang (Class of 2000) and Dr. Christian Nøkkentved standing in front of the special exhibit “IMSA and the Wide, Wide World” at an alumni/ae reunion. Since its very beginning there have been connections between the people of IMSA and the world. Those connections have ... Read More