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🎧 Check out this podcast from the Illinois Leadership® Center.Robb Lindgren discusses being an effective leader while wo...
05/28/2026

🎧 Check out this podcast from the Illinois Leadership® Center.

Robb Lindgren discusses being an effective leader while working with developing technologies on the Made to Lead podcast.

Lindgren Appears on Made to Lead Podcast from Illinois Leadership Center May 19, 2026 3:30 pm by Communications Office Share on Facebook Tweet Email Images Robb Lindgren, associate dean for research, professor C&I and EPSY, recently appeared on the Illinois Leadership Center’s Made to Lead podcast...

Get your popcorn ready 🍿Hannah Haas, a Learning and Education Studies major, is developing a new curriculum on the scien...
05/27/2026

Get your popcorn ready 🍿

Hannah Haas, a Learning and Education Studies major, is developing a new curriculum on the science of growing popcorn alongside Anthony Studer of Illinois Crop Sciences. Haas has developed her own lessons and presented them to students at Thomasboro’s K-8 school earlier this month.

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Popcorn Pedagogy Reaching New Ears by Paige Walk, Office of Communications / May 19, 2026 Interdisciplinary collaboration at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is drawing on Education undergraduates to address societal grand challenges and putting them in unexpected places. "As an educatio...

Congratulations to our faculty members who will serve as Public Engagement Faculty Fellows for 2026-27:🔸 Lin Chen, Educa...
05/27/2026

Congratulations to our faculty members who will serve as Public Engagement Faculty Fellows for 2026-27:

🔸 Lin Chen, Educational Psychology at Illinois
🔹 Devon Hedrick-Shaw, Curriculum & Instruction at Illinois
🔸 Melissa Morgan, Educational Psychology
🔹 Miray Tekkumru-Kisa, Curriculum & Instruction

EPOL postdoctoral researcher Carine Verschueren was recently featured in the educational publication Hechinger Report. T...
05/26/2026

EPOL postdoctoral researcher Carine Verschueren was recently featured in the educational publication Hechinger Report. The newsletter featured Verschueren’s research on school districts that have developed environmental and sustainability policies.

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EPOL Postdoc Featured in Hechinger Report May 13, 2026 9:15 am by Communications Office Share on Facebook Tweet Email Images Carine Verschueren, a post-doctoral researcher in Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, was featured in a recent Hechinger Report newsletter.The newsletter featured re...

Congratulations to our faculty members who were named Hardie Faculty Fellow Award winners:🔸 Kaylin Ratner, Educational P...
05/26/2026

Congratulations to our faculty members who were named Hardie Faculty Fellow Award winners:

🔸 Kaylin Ratner, Educational Psychology at Illinois, Hardie Faculty Fellow
🔹 Stephanie Toliver, Curriculum & Instruction at Illinois, Hardie Distinguished Scholar
🔸 Chris Napolitano, Educational Psychology at Illinois, Hardie Distinguished Scholar

Dean Chrystalla Mouza was proud to present the Dean’s Medallion to Denice Ward Hood at this year’s College Award Ceremon...
05/22/2026

Dean Chrystalla Mouza was proud to present the Dean’s Medallion to Denice Ward Hood at this year’s College Award Ceremony.

Ward Hood dedicated her career to researching culturally responsive evaluation and was a past director of the Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment.

Catherine Corr spent this last year as part of the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute’s Emerging Research Leade...
05/22/2026

Catherine Corr spent this last year as part of the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute’s Emerging Research Leaders Academy. In this profile, she credits the academy for helping to lay the groundwork for a new partnership with the Illinois Department of Early Childhood.

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Corr Reflects on Experience in the Emerging Research Leader Academy May 12, 2026 2:15 pm by Orion Buckingham Share on Facebook Tweet Email Images Catherine Corr, associate professor C&I SPED, was a member of the 2025-26 Emerging Research Leaders Academy (ERLA). In a recent article from the Interdisc...

Congratulations to Dean and professor emeritus James D. Anderson on receiving an honorary doctorate from California Stat...
05/21/2026

Congratulations to Dean and professor emeritus James D. Anderson on receiving an honorary doctorate from California State University, Fullerton .

Anderson received a Doctor of Humane Letters at their College of Education graduation ceremony on May 18.

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Anderson to Receive Honorary Degree from Cal State Fullerton May 12, 2026 12:00 pm by Communications Office Share on Facebook Tweet Email Images James D. Anderson, Gutsgell professor emeritus and dean emeritus, will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from California State University, Fulle...

These six faculty members were honored for their work in the classroom and dedication to their students’ success. Our Ex...
05/21/2026

These six faculty members were honored for their work in the classroom and dedication to their students’ success. Our Excellence in Teaching Awards for 2025-26:

🔸 Michele Schutz: Spitze-Mather Faculty Award for Excellence
🔹 Erica Mason: Outstanding Faculty Award for Public Engagement
🔸 Lynn Burdick: David Zola Distinguished Teaching Career Award
🔹 Jessica Hardy: Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
🔸 Samantha Lindgren: Excellence in Online Teaching Award
🔹 Mari Altshuler: Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award

Congratulations to our staff members who received Distinguished Staff Awards at the College's Awards Ceremony last week....
05/21/2026

Congratulations to our staff members who received Distinguished Staff Awards at the College's Awards Ceremony last week.

🔸 Robin Craig - Council on Teacher Education
🔹 Kimberly Darnell - Bureau of Educational Research
🔸 Julie Kellogg - Educational Psychology at Illinois

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