ITEST Member Spotlight

This ITEST Member Spotlight series highlights the accomplishments of ITEST members.

Father Frank Budenholzer, SVD

Growing up in the Chicago area, the presumption in our household was that Christian faith and empirical science were mutually supportive. My father was a professor of engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, and my mother is a physical therapist with a background in physiology. During my years of preparation for perpetual vows and priesthood as a member of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD), there was a gradually emerging presumption that I would work as an academic, bringing together religion and science. 

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Alois (Al) Kertz, PhD

My parents were simply the most humble, hardworking, faith-filled people I have known. I grew up the middle of seven children on a small dairy farm near Bloomsdale, Missouri in Ste. Genevieve County. My parents were older, especially in that era, when they married, and it was not unusual at that time that they did not get to go beyond 8th grade schooling. They wanted us to develop our God-given talents to our best – not at the expense of others, but to help others.

Read the rest of Dr. Kertz’ biography below.