A Purdue University Fort Wayne faculty member whose specialties include linguistic anthropology received the institution’s Outstanding Research Award, a news release said.
Shannon Bischoff was chosen for the honor by a committee of past recipients and his peers, the release said. He chairs the university’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
“My goal is always to serve students as best I can,” Bischoff said in a statement. “My goal is to keep building opportunities for our students to be more successful in their own personal and professional lives.”
Sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, the award honors tenured, full-time faculty members for outstanding performance in research, scholarly activity or creative endeavor, the release said.
Honorees must have achieved an exceptional record of contributions to the body of knowledge or creative works in their discipline, and they must have had success communicating that information to a wide audience.
Bischoff – who also specializes in language policy and planning, educational linguistics, computational linguistics, formal linguistics, linguistic rights and human rights – has secured more than $2 million in funding for his work, the release said.
That includes seven National Science Foundation grants, one National Endowment for the Humanities grant and two grants from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.
A member of several scholarly societies, Bischoff has presented at places including the United Nations, the British Council and Cambridge University, the release said.
It noted his work has been cited in multiple publications, including The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, the Routledge Handbook of Linguistics and the Handbook of Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity.
“Everything I do is connected,” Bischoff said, “and there’s only one project – to be a good person. You should be kind; you should be nice; and if you have resources and opportunities, you serve others.”
Ivy Tech
Ivy Tech Community College Fort Wayne and Warsaw will offer free classes to students in grades nine through 12 this summer. These courses may be used for exploration and earning an Ivy Tech certification or degree. Courses selected may be transferred to any Indiana four-year public university. The summer term begins June 3. Visit ivytech.edu/freeclasses for information.
Manchester
Manchester University will offer five remote courses during its summer sessions for high school students wanting to earn college credit. Introduction to psychology, medical terminology and introduction to clinical and rehab sciences will be offered during the first summer session, which will be May 28 to July 5. The courses offered during the second session – from July 8 to Aug. 16 – are foundations of human communication and developmental psychology. All courses are online and asynchronous. Registration will close May 1. Visit www.manchester.edu/manchester-early-college-experience for information.
PFW
Purdue University Fort Wayne announced the 2024-25 Chapman Scholars include Jeanelly Hernandez of South Side High School and Sophia Sicoe of Carroll High School. Chapman Scholars receive tuition, fees, room and board and textbooks for four years.
Joshua Roper of Snider High School was named the Doermer Distinguished Scholar. The program provides a four-year, merit-based scholarship to an incoming freshman majoring in business, and it allows the recipient to have networking opportunities with the local business community, work with mentors and participate in internships.
Recognition
The following school boards were among those the Indiana School Boards Association honored through its Exemplary Governance Awards program: Bluffton-Harrison Metropolitan School District, East Allen County Schools, Fort Wayne Community Schools, Norwell Community Schools, Southwest Allen County Schools, Tippecanoe Valley School Corp., Wabash City Schools, Warsaw Community Schools and Whitley County Consolidated Schools.
Individual honorees of the Indiana School Boards Association A award program included Valerie Armstrong of DeKalb County Central United School District; Sherri Strock and Richard Musser of DeKalb County Eastern Community School District; Ron Turpin, Jenny Blackburn and Todd Buckmaster of East Allen County Schools; Dave Pine and Jennifer Blackman of East Noble School Corp.; Noah Smith, Anne Duff, Rohli Booker, Jennifer Matthias, Julie Hollingsworth and Maria Norman of Fort Wayne Community Schools; Zac Burnau of Fremont Community Schools; Luke Ice of Garrett-Keyser-Butler Community School District; J. Ryan Wall of Huntington County Community School Corp.; Liz Hathaway of Northwest Allen County Schools; Chad Kline and Angie Topp of Norwell Community Schools; Kim Moppert and Jennifer Bennett of Southwest Allen County Schools; Tom Bauters, Aaron Zolman, Adam Heckaman and Todd Hoffman of Tippecanoe Valley School Corp.; Jason Fry, Rhonda Hipskind and Rod Kelsheimer of Wabash City Schools; Randy Polston and Brad Johnson of Warsaw Community Schools; Joe Saggars of West Noble School Corp.; and Mary Ann Schaefer and David Smith of Whitley County Consolidated Schools.
Indiana Tech was again named a Military Friendly School by Viqtory, a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business that connects the military community to civilian employment, educational and entrepreneurial opportunities. The university was also recognized as a Top 10 Gold Level institution among graduate programs, placing third in the category.
The Auburn Arts Commission Inc. announced the winners of the 2024 Snowbound Writers’ Contest were Laura Chase, Mary Burris and Toni Sangillo in the prose/fiction category, and Karen Rieke, Dee Wilhem and Cassandra Baliga in the poetry category. Angela Green of Fort Wayne received a special recognition award. The contest honors creative writers in DeKalb County with monetary prizes and recognition.
SACS
The Southwest Allen County Schools board on May 7 approved a donation of $699 to Lafayette Meadows Elementary School. The money, which will be used to buy a Buddy Bench, was from Sarah Hartman on behalf of Sloan Mattingly’s family to honor the girl’s memory. Sloan was a first grader at Lafayette Meadows who died in February while on vacation with her family in Florida.
Scholarships
Tessa Tonkel of Columbia City and Harrison Brooks of Fort Wayne each received $1,000 college scholarships from Northeastern REMC, a member-owned electric cooperative that serves six counties in northeast Indiana.
Trine
Kennedy Jester of Fort Wayne was inducted into Trine University’s chapter of the Hispanic Honor Society, Sigma Delta Pi.
Trine’s Department of Humanities and Communication recognized outstanding students during an April ceremony. Honorees included Lauren Banks of Angola, Lydia Roop of Decatur, Aowyn Myers of Hudson and Penny Fish of Fremont.
