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Presentations

Mark Babbitt, MUS, performed second trombone in recordings for Naxos Record label on Borodin - Symphonies No. 2 and No. 3 and Brahms/Sheng - Black Swan with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.

Claire Lieberman, ART, had her Jell-O, glass and rubber sculpture artwork featured in Sculpture Magazine, Vol. 30.

Ben Stiers, MUS, traveled to Chia-Yi, Taiwan, with the Xplorium Chamber Ensemble to perform a series of concerts as part of the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles conference and the Chia-Yi International Band Festival.

 

 

Michael Wille, ART, spent two weeks in residence at the Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat in rural Pennsylvania. One of his paintings, Cleveland No. 60, was featured as the cover of the new book, You'd Be a Stranger Too, by Weston Cutter.

Michelle Vought, MUS, was one of three American singers on the world premiere opera recording of Hamlet, for which she sang the role of Ophelia with the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra of Olomouc in the Czech Republic. She also performed as the feature soloist with the Peoria Municipal Band.

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Presentations

B. Andrew Chupp, ECO, presented Cognitive Validity: The Neuroscience of Stated Preference Environmental Value Elicitation at the National Bureau of Economic Research summer institute in Boston, Mass.

 

 

Touré Reed, HIS, presented We Must Learn to Think in Terms of Collective Action: Industrial Democracy and the Civil Rights Establishment of the 1930s at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Lisya Seloni, ENG, presented Ethnolinguistic Diversity and the Writing Centers and Working with Multilingual Writers at the Writing Center: Dispelling Second Language Writing Myths at the International Writing Center Association summer institute in Oklahoma City, Okla.

Roberta Seelinger Trites, ENG, presented Magic Realism and Race in Adolescent Literature at the Children’s Literature Association annual conference in Roanoke Va.

Publications

Joe Amato, ENG, wrote Big Man With a Shovel, which was published by Steerage Press.

B. Andrew Chupp, ECO, wrote Environmental Constituent Interest, Green Electricity Policies, and Legislative Voting, which was published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 62.

Karen Coats, ENG, wrote Review of Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers by Maria Nikolajeva, which was published in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Vol. 36.

Tim Hunt, ENG, wrote the poem In This Photo That Does Not Exist, which was published in Rhino, Vol. 11, Why Redneck Western Poets Write the Way We Do in Cloudbank, Vol. 4, Remembering in Spoon River Poetry Review, Vol. 36, and In This Photo That Does Not Exist . . .#2, YouTube Postings and Sand Painting in Grasslimb, Vol. 9.

 

Julie Jung, ENG, wrote Reflective Writing's Synecdochic Imperative: Process Descriptions Redescribed, which was published in College English, Vol. 73.

Robert McLaughlin, ENG, wrote Pychon's Bequest, a review of Intersections: Essays on Richard Powers, which was published in Pychon Notes, Vol. 56-57.

Shailesh Tipnis and Michael Plantholt, MAT, co-authored A Sufficient Condition for the Existence of an Anti-directed 2-factor in a Directed Graph, which was published in Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 311.

Roberta Seelinger Trites, ENG, co-authored It’s Not ‘All or Nothing’: Modified Homeschooling for a Student with Asperger’s Syndrome, which was included in School Psychology in Illinois, Vol. 32.

Kirstin Zona, ENG, wrote Drift, a chapbook of poetry that was published by Finishing Line Press.

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Honor/Awards

Erin Mikulec, C&I, was elected to the Executive Advisory Board of the International Society for Language Studies.

 

 

 

 

Presentations

Temba Bassoppa-Moyo, C&I, presented Where Are We in eLearning? and The Great Technology Divide in eAfrica: How To Deal With It? at the Central Africa Distance Education Expo in Pretoria, South Africa.

Ellis Hurd, C&I, presented Recipes and Reconnaissance: Lessons Learned from Three Common Planning Time (CPT) Case Studies at the 7th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in Urbana-Champaign.

Steven Mertens and Nancy Latham, C&I, presented Improving the Effects of Teacher Preparation Models on Persistence in Education Employment in Illinois: Evidence from a 15-Year Longitudinal Study at the annual conference of the Illinois Education Research Council in Bloomington.

Erin Mikulec, C&I, presented Developing Identities: A Yearlong Study of Adolescents' Beliefs About Themselves as Readers of a Foreign Language at the International Society for Language Studies bi-annual conference in Oranjestad, Aruba.

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Temba Bassoppa-Moyo and Eurvine Williams, C&I, wrote Handbook for Educators: A Practical Guide to Teaching and Learning with Technology (2nd Edition), which was published by Cognella University Readers. Bassoppa-Moyo also wrote How Computer Science Finally Got It Right for Instructional Technology and Design Specialists, which was included in the International Journal of Instructional Media, Vol. 38.

Thomas Crumpler, Lara Handsfield and Tami Dean, C&I, wrote Constructing Difference Differently in Language and Literacy Professional Development, which was published in Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 46. Handsfield wrote Disruptive Comprehension Instruction: Tools for Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Meaning and New and Critical Perspectives on Reading Comprehension and Strategy Instruction, which were published in Theory Into Practice, Vol. 50, for which she served as a guest editor.

Terry Husband, C&I, wrote I Don't See Color: Challenging Assumptions About Discussing Race With Young Children, which was published in the Early Childhood Education Journal, Vol. 10.

Steven Mertens, C&I, co-authored A National Research Project Revitalizes and Strengthens a SIG’s Membership, Leadership, and the Quality of Research in the Field, which was published in Educational Researcher, Vol. 40.

Roland Schendel, C&I, co-authored 25 Essential Language Arts Strategies to Help Striving Readers Succeed, which was published by Scholastic.