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November 03, 2023
As they raise multilingual families, ʳɫÊÓƵ education faculty and researchers Jayoung Choi and Tuba Angay-Crowder have seen firsthand the work it takes to preserve the languages they grew up speaking before coming to the U.S. Choi, professor of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages in ʳɫÊÓƵ’s Bagwell College of Education, and Angay-Crowder, a postdoctoral researcher, have teamed up with Clemson University education associate Mihaela Gazioglu and HaBilNet, to make it easier on immigrant families in the U.S.
November 01, 2023
ʳɫÊÓƵ senior Benedicte Kalonda’s college career has been a roller-coaster. During her first two semesters, professors and classmates were faces on a computer screen as the University shifted online for safety in the 2020-21 academic year during the coronavirus pandemic. Fast forward to the beginning of her senior year, and she stood in front of thousands of cheering freshmen as the student co-host at First-Year Convocation, the University’s official welcome event for new students.
October 30, 2023
Student teachers face a common challenge in their academic careers – they have limited opportunities to interact with elementary school children prior to their final year of college. To fix this, a ʳɫÊÓƵ researcher is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to give education students lifelike interactions with a virtual student earlier in their training.
October 23, 2023
In what could provide a significant boost for national defense, ʳɫÊÓƵ State associate professor Jianming Wen is working to create a building block of a new form of computing that is faster and more secure than today’s best supercomputers. To help build and equip his laboratory, Wen has received a $796,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to expand study of the physics of quantum computing, making ʳɫÊÓƵ one of 22 universities receiving funds through the NSF’s $38 million ExpandQISE (Expand Quantum Information Science and Engineering) initiative.
October 19, 2023
ʳɫÊÓƵ professor Teresa Raczek and her husband Brian LaRaia loved to travel -- an activity that inspired many of the gourmet dinners LaRaia cooked for the couple during their 25 years together. When LaRaia passed away in April of 2021, Raczek said she and his family were immediately interested in finding ways to honor his memory by helping others explore the world and consider new perspectives. Together, they gifted $50,000 to endow the Brian Olcott LaRaia Traveling Scholarship in the Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2022, and recently, Raczek added a more than $200,000 planned gift to that endowment.
October 16, 2023
Play is the universal language of children. That concept has never been lost on two ʳɫÊÓƵ State professors who also happen to be husband and wife and the parents of a young child with special needs. Ali Keyvanfar, an assistant professor of construction management, and Arezou Shafaghat, a limited-term assistant professor in architecture, had never set foot into the world of early childhood education prior to 2020.
October 13, 2023
A ʳɫÊÓƵ researcher is partnering with a local company to refine and test a new type of prosthetic foot that enhances function for people with long residual limbs. Professor of exercise science Mark Geil received a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to fund the work.
October 11, 2023
When ʳɫÊÓƵ alumnus Grey Drummonds wanted to meet other recent graduates, he made it a do-it-yourself project that now connects more than 2,000 Forever Owls.
October 06, 2023
ʳɫÊÓƵ today launched the public phase of The Campaign for ʳɫÊÓƵ State, the largest, most comprehensive fundraising effort in the University’s history. The announcement was made during a campus event attended by members of the ʳɫÊÓƵ Foundation, donors and community leaders.
October 04, 2023
In many ways, Chris and Debbie Pike feel a kinship with ʳɫÊÓƵ. From the time Chris graduated from then-ʳɫÊÓƵ College in 1984, the couple has watched the University grow from humble beginnings to one of the nation’s largest suburban research institutions, all the while maintaining a mission that closely aligns with their family values.