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Competing with a “sense of hunger” less than three weeks after disappointing results at a smaller competition, Hailey King and Hailey Struthers topped more than 70 colleges from across the country to claim the coveted National Collegiate Sales Competition championship for Illinois State University. 
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Ruth Burke, an assistant professor of video in the Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts at Illinois State University, is an interdisciplinary artist who collaborates with animals in her creative practice. 
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University Archivist April Anderson-Zorn, incorporated her passion for theme parks into an Honors Exploration course, Theme Parks and the Power of Place, which explored the themes of identity and place using digital archival collections. 

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Watsachol Narongsaksakul, a third-year doctoral student in the School of Teaching and Learning, presented a session titled “Transforming Teacher Preparation Programs with AI Literacy” at the 2025 Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) conference in New Orleans.  

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