Recent Faculty Accomplishments
The Shaw Research and Publication Awards
- Roberta Buhle, Co-Director of the CLIP Project, NCE, has been awarded the Shaw Fund for Literacy 2009 Faculty Research and Scholarship Publication Award (for work accepted for publication in 2008). This award supports NLU Reading and Language Department faculty and students as first authors in the publication of their work related to the Shaw Fund for Literacy areas of focus on improving reading instruction for struggling readers especially for those in urban areas. Buhle was first author on the article "The Assessment Double Play," published in Educational Leadership (2008) with Camille Blachowicz as second author. The article tries to capture their work with literacy coaches related to the support they give teachers to use literacy assessment formatively.
- Victoria Naughton's has been awarded the Shaw Fund for Literacy 2009 Student and Graduate Research and Publication award. This work honors students and graduates of the Reading Program for their first publication of work related to the Shaw Fund for Literacy areas of focus on improving reading instruction for struggling readers especially for those in urban areas. Her work was published in The Reading Teacher (2008). In this article she describes a comprehensive reading strategy called "Picture It!" that uses the elements of story grammar and visualization to promote reading comprehension, to aid vocabulary development, and to stimulate discussion on both a story's meaning and on the details the author uses to create his message.
Also this year:
- Dr. Gail Bush was named a Distinguished Alumna by the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana Graduate School of Library and Information Science and was elected president of the Illinois Library Association.
- Dr. Ruth Quiroa was the recipient of the American Library Free Pass to attend the Feria Internacional Del Libro in Guadalajara, Mexico December 2008. Dr. Quiroa, along with NLU Librarian Barb Evans, purchased more than 300 books originally published in Spanish from South America, Central America, and Mexico.
- Dr. Jennifer Berne, Dr. Sophie Degener, Dr. Sunday Cummins, and Dr. Ruth Quiroa were named the new editors of the Professional Resources column of the Illinois Reading Council Journal.
- Dr. Junko Yokota was the recipient of the 2009 Reading the World Award and was instrumental in having the U.S. Board on Books for Young People secretariat moved to NLU where the IBBY Regional conference will be held October 9, 2009.