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P&T
All academia should know what’s P&T, so I will not elaborate further. This announcement has nothing to do with Information Trails research… but I supposed is a good “side effect” of the research?
The following news appeared in the April 8, 2010 edition of Saluki Times:
CARBONDALE, Ill. — The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees, meeting in Edwardsville, today (April 8, 2010) ratified academic promotions and granted tenure for SIUC faculty members. Promotions take effect July 1, while tenure awards are effective Aug. 16.
Following is list of those promoted (grouped by rank, with academic units and places of residence, where available, noted). Those receiving tenure have a “t” in parentheses after their names.
(And about 4 paragraphs down, among the names listed for promotion from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor….)
is moi! [Thank you!]
P.S. I am so glad I don’t have to have a “mid-term crisis” like the guy shown in this movie.
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More Press: Daily Egytian
On March 18, 2010 Daily Egyptian ran a story about a professor who is studying how video game players learn… 
Christian Sebastian Loh turns on his 72-inch liquid plasma, high-definition rear projector TV in order to operate his Alienware 5500 desktop computer to play video games in 3-D.Loh does not play these games himself; he studies the way people play the games. He received a $70,000 grant from the U.S. Army in 2009 to study how video games help people learn.
The grant is called the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program, and allowed Loh to purchase the material necessary to pay for virtual environment equipment that allows him to study people who play video games.
Loh, an assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Services, said when the university found out he was buying an Alienware computer they were a little skeptical. “They asked me, ‘Why are you buying a toy?’” …
Note: It would appear that the 72-inch rear-display Digial Plasma Liquid (DLP) TV is really a crowd-puller! Not only have the 3 local/regional newspapers all reported about the Plasma TV (and the DURIP grant), the local TV and Radio stations have also send reporters to interview me about it. Wow!
V-Lab, 72" 3D-capable DLP and avatars
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More Press: Daily Egytian
On March 18, 2010 Daily Egyptian ran a story about a professor who is studying how video game player…