April 2021 Illinois Professional Digest

Get to know the archaeologists, biologists, chemists, ecologists, geologists, and other scientists and staff of the Prairie Research Institute (PRI)!

Isabelle Lulewicz, zooarchaeologist 

Kristen Ragusa, Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) field scientist 

Curtis Twellmann, Illinois Learn to Hunt regional R3 planner 

Facilities and Services (F&S) employs many hard-working, dedicated, and often extraordinary people who demonstrate exemplary service. The F&S “Employee of the Month” (EOM) and "Team of the Month" (TOM) awards are given monthly to employees who have demonstrated one or more of the guiding principles that are essential to the organization, the university, and the community. To read more, click here. 

Employee of the Month: Josh Rubin, Engineering & Construction Services, construction superintendent

Team of the Month: F&S COVID Classroom Layout Design Team
Damon Brogdon, Kristine Chalifoux (retired), Kristi Cler, Dennis Craig, Brad Ellison, Brian Kearney, Brad Klein, Erika Lee, Zach Leverton, Jim Sims

Eden Haycraft, Associate Director, Graduate Online Programs, has been acknowledged for her work for the School of Labor and Employment Relations. Her hard work has spearheaded a period of rapid growth of the online Master of Human Resources and Industrial Relations program that features both an increase in degree-seeking students and the advent of a certificate program for professionals. To read more, click here. 

Illinois Physics Senior Academic Advisor Merissa Milton has been selected for the University of Illinois 2021 Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising. To read more, click here.