Robert Williams named new police chief

Robert Williams, a Springfield native has been nominated to succeed Ralph Caldwell as chief of the Springfield Police Department. Williams has been serving in the role of assistant chief under Caldwell.

Williams earned a bachelor's degree in social justice from the University of Illinois Springfield.

Williams was featured in an October 23, 2009 article in the State Journal-Register.

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20091023-SJR-Robert-Williams-named.pdf

SSU graduate has received four James Beard Foundation Awards for cookbooks

Former Springfield resident Cheryl Alters Jamison, a cookbook author, has received four of the prestigious James Beard Foundation Awards, considered the "Oscars of the food world."

Jamison is a graduate of Sangamon State University, where she received her M.A. in community arts management in 1977.

Jamison was featured in a June 24, 2009, article in the State Journal-Register.

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20090624-SJR-cookbookjamison.pdf

U of I alum McMillan named to Board of Trustees

Edward McMillan, a 1969 University of Illinois graduate in agricultural science from Greenville, is Gov. Pat Quinn's first nominee for appointment to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees, the governor's office confirmed Monday.

The appointment was written about in a March 17, 2009, article in the Champaign News-Gazette.

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20090317-McMillanBOT.pdf

Alumna featured in Springfield's Own magazine

Nina Harris, who received her bachelors and masters degrees from UIS, was featured in the January/February 2009 issue of Springfield's Own magazine, which is distributed by the State Journal-Register.

Harris is president and CEO of the Springfield Urban League, which is the largest urban league in the state. Most recently, she became a new member of the UIS Campus Alumni Advisory Board.

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20090113-SO-NinaHarris.pdf

Computer Science grads found "Girls Tech"

After listening to a presentation on the dwindling number of women in computer science fields, Nina Milbauer and Lori Kelley, information technology instructors at Madison (Wisconsin) Area Technical College, were inspired to create Girls Tech, a summer camp where girls in grades 6 through 9 learn about the possibilities open to them in a variety of technical professions.

Both Milbauer and Kelley earned master's degrees in UIS' online Computer Science program.

MATC recently hosted its second Girls Tech program and Ted Mims, chair of UIS' Computer Science department, was among the representatives from other institutions who visited Madison to observe. "You could actually see the excitement in (the girls') faces as they learned and they wanted to do more and more," said Mims.

An article in the July 1, 2008, Madison Capital Times profiled the program.

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20080701-MCT-GirlsTech.pdf