As part of community Outreach, the Department was happy to receive Sunday school children from Adonai Gospel Church on April 25, 2024 to take them through our laboratories and the equipment. The aim of this visit was to expose them to the University environment in order to motivate them as they study. Some of them are in high school and majority of them are in lower primary.

Prof. David Huffman grew up in a small farming community in central Illinois and attended college in Greenville, South Carolina.  After college he managed a package plant for biological wastewater treatment.   A volunteer lecture in a high school class led to an enjoyable year teaching science, math, and history courses.  The ease of this experience led him to begin a master’s degree in Inorganic Chemistry at Illinois State University under the direction of Dr. Douglax X.