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Martin Kulak has been nominated to receive the Teacher of the Year Award for 2013-2014 from the Illinois Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Kulak teaches at James B. Conant High School in Hoffman Estates and is the leader of the District 211 Physics Teacher Professional Learning Team. He has worked with a group of colleagues who created a featured application on the iTunes Store, Step2Step Physics: Mechanics, which now has close to 3,000 downloads.

In addition, a member of his team created a Physics iBook on iTunes U that includes Kulak’s notes and lectures, which learners all over the world can download for free. Currently, there are more than 60,000 subscribers to the course.

The ISAAPT Award winner will be announced in March and will be presented during the fall meeting of the Section.

Click the photo to see what exciting memorabilia Meg Miner – University Archivist & Special Collections Librarian – has requested.

Director of Wesleyan Fund Jeff Mavros and wife, Katie, have three kids – 6,5, & 2.

Jaimie Rukstales participated in a flash mob in Park Ridge, Illinois with fellow IWU graduate Wayne Messmer ’72.

Here is a link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ujh71OCjx0&goback=%2Egde_123324_member_5813764512632815616#%21

We Gotta Get Out of This Place (feature film produced by alumni Brian Udovich) made it’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and followed up by winning the Audience Award at AFI Fest in Los Angeles in November. The film will be released theatrically in 2014. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2873214/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Alan W. Shindel, MD is the editor of Sexual Medicine,  an official publication of the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM), which serves the field as the peer-reviewed, open access journal for rapid dissemination of multidisciplinary clinical and basic research in all areas of global sexual medicine.

Dr. Shindel received his bachelor’s degree in biology from Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois, USA. He went on to medical school at Washington University Medical School in Saint Louis and stayed on at Washington University to complete his residency in urology. In 2007, he started a three year fellowship in andrology at the University of California, San Francisco under the auspices of Tom Lue, Ira Sharlip, and Tom Walsh. In 2010 he joined the faculty of urology at the University of California, Davis in Sacramento, California, USA as an assistant professor of Urology and Co-Director of Men’s Health.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2050-1161