(May 4, 2010) Lisa Devereux and Julie Herold senior Lyconus, special education, were chosen as Robert g. Bone scholars for the academic year 2010-2011.
Scholars of bone, the highest honor the University-wide students, includes a monetary prize of Endowment bone scholars. Images of the recipients are displayed in the center of student of bone, and their names are engraved on a plaque displayed permanently there.
Fourteen students were selected for the award. New scholars will be introduced to current scholars of bone, bone past scholars and University administrators during an awards dinner held on 11 September.
The scholarship is named in honor of the late Robert g. bone, President of the State of Illinois from 1956 to 1967. Bone scholars are selected through a campus-wide contest strictly on the basis of their scientific achievements and their commitment and leadership in activities in the University community and beyond. Finalists invited with a comprehensive portfolio of several essays and statements, a project and five letters of recommendation.
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Goel joined Illinois State in 1989 after receiving his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Houston. His research interests are applied microeconomics, including economics of technical change, industrial organization, Internet economics, entrepreneurship and tobacco economics. Goel’s current scholastic interests include international trends in tobacco consumption and regulation and determinants of cross-country corruption. His recent contributions to the tobacco economics literature exceed those of virtually every other scholar working on these issues globally, according to Frank Chaloupka, a distinguished professor of economics at the University of Illinois-Chicago and director of the Institute for Health Research and Policy’s Health Policy Center. Goel's contributions to at least three distinct areas of economics have been acknowledged by Paul Gregory, a Hoover Institution Research Fellow, as unusual in the discipline of economics where most researchers typically focus in relatively narrow fields of study. Goel has published two books, 86 articles and several book chapters. His research is heavily cited and routinely appears in prestigious and high-quality peer-reviewed outlets, with the volume of his publications earning him a spot in the top 400 economists in the world. 
Gokhale’s collaborative research has focused on female and minority participation in technical areas within science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Participation by underrepresented groups in these career areas has become a hallmark of her work. Gokhale has had her research disseminated in many diverse engineering and educational research journals such as the International Journal of Science Education, Journal of College Science Teaching, Journal of Information Management, Journal for Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, Journal of the Communications Network and Journal of Environmental Management. She presents regularly at national and international conferences, and her telecommunications textbook is used by more than 20 universities and was recently translated into Chinese. 
Creasey joined the Psychology department in 1989. He has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses; most of his undergraduate students are teacher education majors. Creasey has supervised a number of thesis and dissertation projects and is currently the chairperson of the Illinois State University Urban Teacher Preparation Steering Committee and assistant director of the TEACHER+PLUS grant, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, for which he mentors faculty members as they redesign their courses with an urban education focus, develops strands of classes that can be taken by teacher candidates interested in pursuing urban teaching careers and conducts assessment/evaluation work on the progress of these students. He authored the textbook, Research Methods in Lifespan Development, has received a number of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) grants and has published several papers in SoTL outlets. 
Fredstrom, assistant director of the School of Music, joined the faculty in 2003 after teaching music in the public schools for 10 years. He has taught courses in graduate and undergraduate music education and general education as well as conducted choral ensembles. Fredstrom has served as an academic advisor to choral music education majors, a Presidential Scholar mentor, a residence hall mentor and a faculty advisor to several School of Music student organizations. He believes teaching is at its best when students and faculty learn together and from each other, and where all individuals involved commit to bringing their best preparation and thinking to the community of learners. Fredstom thinks it is critical that teachers expect high levels of achievement from students. From 2006 to 2008, Fredstrom served as Faculty in Residence in the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTLT), where he conducted workshops on instructional effectiveness. He continues to facilitate the Reinvent Your Course workshop each summer for CTLT.
Lind earned her bachelor’s degree in art education and her master’s and doctoral degrees in English Studies from Illinois State. She taught classes in composition while completing her graduate degrees and, upon receiving her doctorate in 2007, began teaching full time as an non-tenure track faculty member in the Department of English. Lind has taught a variety of classes for the department, including British Literature, Introduction to English Studies, Medieval Literature, Growth and Structure of the English language, and Introduction to Literary Genres. 
