If you look closely at the marble staircases in Mumford Hall, you’ll see imprints worn into the stone -- evidence of generations of students passing through, their footsteps leaving a mark. Among those students was Paul Stoddard, now a senior lecturer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Agricultural Consumer and Environmental Sciences. Stoddard’s journey took him from the farm fields of Illinois to the front of a lecture hall, where he has shaped the minds of thousands of students.
From farm fields to lecture halls
Paul Stoddard lectures a hall full of students.





