Honors 
R.C. McBride, WGLT, was elected to the NPR Board of Directors. 

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ American Democracy Project (ADP) announced the Extending Empathy Project will join the cohort of Civic Fellows for 2022-2023. The series of interdisciplinary instructional colloquia for faculty will turn into a national, eight-part symposium that explores how to spark compassion. The team is from Illinois State University and includes Nathan Carpenter, Byron Craig, Stephen Hunt, and J. Scott Jordan

Publications 
Jason Cieslik, POL, authored the article, “A New Approach to Felony Murder in Illinois” in the Northern Illinois Law Review (2022). 

Adam Peck, Student Affairs, co-authored the article, “Defining and addressing professional burnout in campus activities” in the Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship.   

Ali Riaz, POL, authored a book chapter titled “Bangladesh in the midst of vaccine diplomacy,” in The Covid-19 Crisis in South Asia: Coping with the Pandemic (2022). 

Sercan Şengün, CVA, coauthored the article, “How Does Varying the Number of Personas Affect User Perceptions and Behavior? Challenging the ‘Small Personas’ Hypothesis!” In the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (2022).