Craig Russell, head of the Uni math department, is one of only 23 teachers in the U.S. and Canada to win this year's Sliffe Award, the Mathematical Association of America's top honor for high school math teaching. [Audio included]

Uni history teacher Chris Butler has been named one of 30 finalists in the first-ever Golden Apple Central Illinois awards program. Ten winners will be announced in April. If Butler is one of them, he will receive $3,000 as well as a one-semester paid sabbatical at the University of Illinois, a laptop computer, and membership in the Golden Apple Central Illinois Academy of Educators.