VCD:

Jerry Kalback was 1 of 12 illustrators nationally invited to illustrate a month for the 2006 NPR Calendar.

Ken Visocky O'Grady and his wife Jen (our grad) have been featured in HOW Magazine's 2005 Business Annual. Their studio, Enspace, was 1 of 5 profiled in Dec. 2004.

Students in David Middleton's Environmental Graphic Design course will again be participating in an interdisciplinary study with 2 other universities. Design students from Kent, architecture students from IIT and real estate MBA's from DePaul will work in teams with Chicago business leaders and Chicago Public Schools on a housing project for newly graduated student teachers.

VCD grad Marcus Lehto was listed in the Time Magazine, Time 100 selections, 2005, in the category of Artists and Entertainers as one of the 3 developers of the video game HALO. Art director Lehto is responsible for the look of the game.

SLIS:

IMLS grant for more than $350,000 between SLIS, College of Nursing, and the Ohio Literacy Resource Center (KSU)  The grant concerns health information literacy among older adults.

Carolyn Brodie won the Distinguished Teaching Award at KSU.

Carolyn Brodie has been appointed to the Randolf Caldecott Award Committee of the American Library Association.