Strategic Communications and Marketing News Bureau

Illinois Fire Service Institute’s Brauer to receive award

 

Brian Brauer, the associate director for the Illinois Fire Service Institute, will receive the 2017 Outstanding Dissertation Award on June 21 at Auburn University. Brauer’s doctoral dissertation presented a case study of an Illinois fire department that underwent organizational culture change following a firefighter’s line-of-duty death. 

The University Council for Workforce and Human Resource Education will present the award, which recognizes contributions to the knowledge base of its field. The council is comprised of 19 of the nation’s leading universities.

Brauer received his Ed.D. in Educational Policy and Organizational Leadership Development from Illinois in 2016.

Brauer is responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations relative to facility management at the institute and for providing strategic direction for all capital projects. He has been published in a number of trade publications and has made numerous presentations around the United States. In 2012, he traveled to China to present to the Chinese Peoples Armed Forces Police Academy.

The institute is the statutory state fire academy for Illinois. In addition to training provided at its Champaign campus, the institute offers one-day, hands-on classes for fire departments at regional training centers and local fire stations across the state. Its mission is to help firefighters do their work through training, education, information and research.

Read Next

Life sciences Photo of Michael Ward standing in tall grass on a riverbank.

How are migrating wild birds affected by H5N1 infection in the U.S.?

Each spring, roughly 3.5 billion wild birds migrate from their warm winter havens to their breeding grounds across North America, eating insects, distributing plant seeds and providing a variety of other ecosystem services to stopping sites along the way. Some also carry diseases like avian influenza, a worry for agricultural, environmental and public health authorities. […]

Announcements Marcelo Garcia, professor of civil and environmental engineering at The Grainger College of Engineering.

Illinois faculty member elected to National Academy of Engineering

Champaign, Ill. — Marcelo Garcia, a professor of civil and environmental engineering in The Grainger College of Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Social sciences Male and female student embracing on the quad with flowering redbud tree and the ACES library in the background. Photo by Michelle Hassel

Dating is not broken, but the trajectories of relationships have changed

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — According to some popular culture writers and online posts by discouraged singles lamenting their inability to find romantic partners, dating is “broken,” fractured by the social isolation created by technology, pandemic lockdowns and potential partners’ unrealistic expectations. Yet two studies of college students conducted a decade apart found that their ideas about […]

Strategic Communications and Marketing News Bureau

507 E. Green St
MC-426
Champaign, IL 61820

Email: stratcom@illinois.edu

Phone (217) 333-5010