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Goel Awarded University Research Honors
Rajeev Goel was named a recipient of the 2011 Outstanding University Researcher Award. His work in industrial organization and applied microeconomics of technology, tobacco, and corruption appears in numerous outlets including the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Managerial and Decision Economics, and Public Choice.
Call for archives
The University Archives needs your help! Do you still have your old sports jerseys? All of those buttons, pens, and other giveaways from campus events? How about a scrapbook you made of your time here or the scrapbook you made for your club or organization? Or even piles of photographs, home movies, pamphlets, postcards, and booklets?
New COB director of marketing
It is with great pleasure that we announce Stephen Vandiver ’86 as the director of marketing for the College of Business. He assumed his duties on July 1, 2012. Vandiver was the director of marketing for Richland Community College in Decatur. He received a B.S. in marketing from Illinois State University. In his recent role
The Illinois State University’s National Board Resource Center (NBRC) is now offering an online graduate course for National Board candidates
The nation has almost 100,000 National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) and 5,153 of them are in the state of Illinois. This is due to the commitment to teacher quality by a diverse group of support providers (among them, state agencies, business and educational leaders, parents) and the efforts of a university-based resource center. The National
The Center for the Study of Education Policy receives $390,000 McCormick grant to evaluate and improve the preparation of P–12 principals and preK–3 teachers
The Robert R. McCormick Foundation will be providing nearly $5 million in grants over two years to support a system of quality early care and education initiatives, including public policy and advocacy focusing on adequate funding and quality standards, and support for quality infrastructure, including principal preparation and early math. Read the full story.
SMART Boards for visually impaired
A project, headed by Illinois State University staff and Laboratory School teachers, is working to make SMART Boards accessible to visually impaired children. The project, titled SMARTer Boards: Girls Solve Visual Accessibility Issues, will provide suggestions to educators and pre-service teachers, encouraging them to incorporate interactive features of the SMART Boards used in classrooms. “We’re talking
College of Education scholarships program grows
For FY13, the College of Education awarded scholarships to 123 education majors, totaling $312,538. Both the number of scholarships and total dollar amount awarded are the largest to date. In FY12, the COE awarded 22 more scholarships. The financial support these scholarships provide in an era of crisis in financial aid programs is essential. However,
Loving life at 95
Age has not deterred Marjorie Wilson’s appreciation for each person she meets and the moments she shares with them. Although she retired years ago, she will never stop teaching that important lesson. Meade moved to Minooka in 1939, a fresh graduate from Normal University. Read the full story.
2012 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Alvin Roth (Harvard University) and Lloyd Shapley (UCLA) were awarded this year’s prize for their separate but related work on stable matching of different agents. Examples of matching problems addressed by this work include the assignment of new doctors to hospitals, student applicants to schools, and human organs for transplant to recipients.
