Madhu Viswanathan
Champaign-Urbana International Humanitarian Awards

Three area professionals and a civic club will be honored at the Champaign-Urbana International Humanitarian Awards dinner. Madhu Viswanathan, Associate Professor of Business Administration, talks about how companies can market to poor consumers without being seen as exploiting them, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal's Erin White.
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Ann Abbott
2008 Distinguished Teacher/Scholar

The Teaching Advancement Board recently selected Annie Abbott, a professor and director of the Spanish & Illinois program in the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, as its Distinguished Teacher/Scholar for the 2008-2009 academic year. The program recognizes outstanding faculty members who actively enhance teaching and learning on campus and supports innovative projects that recipients develop as part of the selection process. Award recipients serve as consultants and mentors to other faculty members and departments seeking to explore new instructional methods and revitalize their teaching programs.
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Anne Villamil and Stefan Krasa
Running models on the TeraGrid, economics researchers gain better understanding of entrepreneurship.

Economists have long debated entrepreneurial success: Are entrepreneurs uniquely optimistic and more willing to assume risks, or are environmental factors--like bankruptcy laws and the availability of credit-more significant?
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Joseph Squier
Art and Innovation: Claiming a New and Larger Role in the Modern Academy

So this is the task at hand for those of us who produce culture and also work within the Academy: to articulate and model a form of artistic practice that situates itself increasingly at the center of modern academic culture. It is time, and increasingly within our reach, to lay claim to and redefine some of the terms that have currency on university campuses. I am thinking here of the terms entrepreneurship , inquiry, and research .
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