CPM Professor Jill Kawalec has received the 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University Teaching Council's prestigious Faculty Recognition Award, which honors KSU faculty members who have made a difference in the life of a student. It is noteworthy that Dr. Kawalec is the first CPM faculty member to receive this coveted award, and what makes it more impressive is that the award is student driven. The best teachers ultimately realize that one of the most rewarding aspects of what they do is to make a significant difference. Dr. Kawalec was nominated by CPM student Laura Jackson. In the early days of the pandemic, wi...
The Reinberger Children’s Library Center at 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University has become the new home of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, assuming the role formerly held by the Center for Children’s Books at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This prestigious honor joins other notable programs at the Reinberger, including the scholarly research resource the Marantz Picturebook Collection for the Study of Picturebook Art and the Jacqueline M. Albers Guest Scholar in Children’s Literature Fellowship. The O’Dell Award is further recognition of the strength of the School of Inform...
Merri Rosen, Ph.D., became just the second director of the Hearing Research Focus Area (RFA) in 2019, when she took over the leadership role from Jeffrey Wenstrup, Ph.D., who had served as director since the creation of the group in 2005. The group studies the neuroscience underlying auditory perception, and dysfunction related to hearing loss and tinnitus. Read More ...
Autism spectrum disorder is a group of neurodevelopmental disabilities characterized by social communication deficits and stereotypic behaviors. Currently, little is known about the cellular and molecular mechanisms of autism spectrum disorder, but the research of Woo-Yang Kim, Ph.D., associate professor in 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ University’s Department of Biological Sciences within the College of Arts and Sciences, might lead to a change. As opposed to diseases, infections or environmental exposures, there is no known factor that causes autism spectrum disorder. Kim’s research started with mice,...