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Presentations

Jeff Barrett, MAT, presented Building and Validating a Learning Trajectory for Children's Measurement for the Defining and Implementing Learning Trajectories as Research Tools symposium in San Diego, Calif., and presented the poster A Longitudinal Analysis of Unit Iteration Concepts for Length, Area, and Volume (Grades 2–4) and assisted with the posters Assessing the Alignment of Written Curricula and State Standards for Length Measurement, Hypothetical Learning Trajectory for Length in the Early Years and A Comparison of Representations of Units of Length: A Microgenetic Analysis at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Denver, Colo.

John Baur, CHE, presented Chemical Imaging with Microelectrodes for the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Fla.

 

 

Beverly Beyer, Stevenson Center, was a panelist in the Illinois Council for Continuing Education and Training and Illinois Community College Training Resource and Information Network grant panel in Bloomington.

David Cedeño, CHE, presented Recent Chemical Strategies Against Leishmaniasis for the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago.

Jeanne Howard, SWK, presented Narratives of Adopted Women and The Meaning of Search and the Search for Meaning at the International Conference of Adoption Researchers at the University of Leiden in Holland.

Timothy Lash, David Cedeño and Marjorie Jones, CHE, presented Sapphyrins and Heterosapphyrins: Colorful Inhibitors of Leishmania at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia.

Bill McBride, ENG, presented Le Rouge et le Noir and the White/The Funky Cajun Injun Lesson as part of the Niki Hoeky—A Consultation, Celebration and Interrogation of the Boolawee panel for the Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association in New Orleans, La.

Craig McLauchlan, CHE, presented It Takes Two to Tango: Cliché-Riddled Strategies to Get Student to ‘Buy In’ to Student Response Device (aka Clicker) Use at the Conference on Classroom Response Systems: Best Practices and Innovations in Louisville, Ky. and with Marjorie Jones, CHE, presented the poster Effects of Decavanadate on Leishmania tarentolae at the Gordon Research Conference on Metals in Medicine in Andover, N.H.

Publications

James Alstrum, LAN, wrote El Carnero y la trayectoria de la prosa satírica colombiana, which was included in Revista de Estudios Colombianos, Vol. 35.

David Cedeño, Marjorie Jones and Timothy Lash, CHE, co-authored Association of acenaphthoporphyrins to liposomes for the photodynamic treatment of leishmaniasis, which was published in Photochemistry and Photobiology Vol. 86. Lash and Jones wrote Normal and abnormal heme biosynthesis. Part 6. Synthesis and metabolism of a series of monovinylporphyrinogens related to harderoporphyrinogen. Further insights into the oxidative decarboxylation of porphyrinogen substrates by coproporphyrinogen oxidase, which was published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 75.

Tasha Dunn, GEO, wrote Analysis of ordinary chondrites using powder x-ray diffraction: 1. Modal mineral abundances and Analysis of ordinary chondrites using powder X-ray diffraction: 2. Applications to ordinary chondrites parent-body processes, which were published in Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Vol. 45.

Gregory Ferrence and Marjorie Jones, CHE, wrote A New Approach to Teaching Ethics in General Chemistry, which was published in CUR-Quarterly, Vol. 30.

Jon Friesen, CHE, authored Identification of hydrophobic amino acids required for lipid activation of C. elegans CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase, which was published in Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Vol. 492, and Methyl farnesoate synthesis in the mandibular organ: The regulation of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Vol. 155.

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Awards

Darrell Kruger, COE, received the Best College/University Article award from the National Council for Geographic Education for Writing a Successful Fulbright Group Projects Abroad Grant: Voices from a Journey to South Africa.

 

 

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Presentations

Jess Ray, Registrar, presented Transfer 101 and Tools for Transfer Success at the 96th annual meeting of the American Association of Collegiate Registrar and Admissions Officers in New Orleans, La., and The Office of the University Registrar @ Illinois State for the Central Illinois Municipal Clerks organization in Normal.

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Mike Bastion and James Wayne, Campus Recreation Services, presented Special Events and Bastion and Dan Goodwin, Campus Recreation Services, presented One Minute Manager at the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association conference in Anaheim, Calif.

Publications

Jennifer Thome, Student Counseling Services, co-authored Developing Competency in Social Class and Classism in Counseling and Psychotherapy, which was published in the Handbook of Multicultural Counseling Competencies.

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Presentations

Bill Anderson, FCS, presented Assessing the Virtual Child: Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy as a Common Language for Rubric, Goals and Feedback at the annual conference of the Family Science Association in Madison, Ind.

Billy Lim, ITK, presented Geo-Terra: Location-based Learning Using Geo-Tagged Multimedia at the Global Lear Asia Pacific global conference on Learning & Technology in Penang, Malaysia.

Richard Boser, TEC, presented The Integrated Design Process on Paper and In Practice: A Case Study at the Associated Schools of Construction annual conference in Boston, Mass.

 

 

Publications

David Kopsell, AGR, co-authored, Impact of selected cultural practices on seedling growth of Osage orange (Maclura pomifera), which was published in Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science, Vol. 103, and Characterization of nutritionally important carotenoids in bunching onion in HortScience, Vol. 45.

Rob Rhykerd, AGR, co-authored, Influence of different Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) populations on physiological growth indices and yields under intercropping with a fixed sweet potato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] population, which was published in the Journal of Applied Sciences Research, Vol. 6.

 

 

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Presentations

Kathleen Lonbom presented When Visual Meets Verbal: Considering Alternate Access to a Digital Image Collection at the Art Libraries Society of North America 38th Annual Conference in Boston, Mass.

Jean MacDonald presented Libraries’, Librarians’ and Patrons’ Use of Identifiers for Locating Information at the Association of History, Literature, Science and Technology Interdisciplinary conference at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain.