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An inspiration to all: Gibson receives 2016 Faculty and Staff Inspiration Award

Senior Lecturer and Meredith Professional-in-Residence Deb Gibson received the 2016 Faculty and Staff Inspiration Award from the Iowa State Alumni Association last spring. Gibson, who’s taught at the school since 2000, said the award and the nominations that led to it mirrored her own experience as an Iowa State journalism major in the late seventies. … Continue reading An inspiration to all: Gibson receives 2016 Faculty and Staff Inspiration Award

So Long, Professor Abbott

Eric Abbott caught the journalism bug at age 5, when he licked envelope stamps and worked with a dog columnist at a newspaper in Osceola, Iowa, where his father was an editor. Fast forward 60-plus years, and Abbott boasts a plumb-full resume, chock-full of 41 years teaching experience, research trips to dozens of countries, numerous … Continue reading So Long, Professor Abbott