Two engineering Ph.D.s. One startup. A wedding at Memorial Stadium. And a love story more than a decade in the making. 💙🧡 Samantha Knoll and Alex Kreig met at Illinois, where they studied engineering, launched a company together and began building a future neither could have completely predicted. “The U. of I. has given me a lot—my career, how I think, who I am as a person,” Alex says. “But I always go back to how it gave me my best and favorite gift, which is that I met my best friend who then became my wife.” For #NationalCouplesDay, meet an Illinois couple whose romance really was engineered for success. 🧡 uofigrainger #ILLINOISalumni