Election Day is fast approach.

Greetings! Here are some important updates and announcements from the UIS Office of Human Resources:

New Employees in HR and AEO

With less than three weeks until Election Day, our TVs, mobile screens and U.S. mailboxes have been bombarded with advertising messages from political candidates and the organizations who support them.

Congratulations to Dylan Thompson, who has been accepted into the School of Medicine at Southern Illinois University. Dylan is a senior majoring in Biology with a pre-medical concentration here at UIS and will start the medical doctor program this fall. As Aristotle once said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Dylan credits UIS's guidance and support in helping him cultivate the habits of excellence that led to his acceptance to medical school.

Leanne Brecklin is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She is from Freeport, Illinois. She began teaching at UIS in the fall of 2002.

Where did you go to University?

I went to DePaul University for undergrad and graduate school at UIC.

What was your undergraduate major?

I double majored in sociology and psychology.

What was your concentration for graduate school?