A project to bring information to farmers in rural southeastern Nigeria through the Internet was begun in 2007 with $12,000 in funding from the Emerald Publishing Group in the United Kingdom. The award was the first foreign grant to be received by BGSU.

The project involved an intercontinental collaboration between Dr. Louisa Ha, telecommunications; Primus Igboaka, a BGSU doctoral student in telecommunications, and Dr. Raphael Okigbo of Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Nigeria.

One of the articles they wrote about the project, “Knowledge Creation and Dissemination in Sub-Saharan Africa,” was published in Management Decision. It has been chosen for a Special Commendation for Research of Value to the Developing World among the 2009 Literati Network Awards for Excellence.

Many poor children go to school without breakfast, but studies show that 92 percent of college students—even though most have meal plans—do not eat a morning meal, either. Could that food be donated to those in need?

Dr. Benjamin N. Muego, political science and Asian studies, will be traveling to Vietnam this fall as the first U.S. faculty member to teach at the Hanoi University of Education.

Dr. Emilio Duran, School of Teaching and Learning, is heading an attempt to measure the impact of teacher professional development on student learning in a project that he also helps lead.

Classified staff and friends teed off for another successful Classified Staff Council golf outing June 5.