Campus Colleagues and Students, Our hearts go out to our Nepali students and faculty members, and their friends and loved ones, who have all been affected by the earthquake that struck Nepal on Saturday. As of today, more than 3,000 have been confirmed dead and thousands more are critically injured or missing.
Molly Strong received a second place award in the oral presentations and Whitney Swanson received second place in the poster competition at the North Central District 3 Beta Beta Beta Meeting held at the University of Iowa. Both students had received Beta Beta Beta Research Scholarships this past fall.
Beta Beta Beta is the National Biological Honor Society. The North Central District 3 Annual Meeting was held at the University of Iowa April 17 and 18, 2015. Four members of the Wallert Cancer Research Team that are Beta Beta Beta members presented at this meeting.
Ximena Suarez-Sousa, School of Teaching and Learning, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association that took place in Chicago.
Dr. Doris Walker-Dalhouse, Professor Emerita, STL, was elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Literacy Educators & Researchers (ALER). Her term will begin in November 2015 and end In November 2018.