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I don’ t know Steven Stahl personally, but I admire his work. In response to a readers’ comment on my Profile page of him, I was surprised to find that his name was taken off from the UIUC Ed School faculty list.

The only lead I was able to find was the following book on Janet Gaffney’s web page:

Anderson, R. C., Wang, Q., Gaffney, J. S. (in press). Comprehension research over the past three decades. In K. A. Dougherty Stahl & M. C. McKenna (Eds), Seeking understanding in how to teach reading: Selected works by Steven Stahl and a Memorial Festschrift. New York: Guilford.

The News-Gazette Online

 Steven Stahl

   CHAMPAIGN – Funeral services for Steven Alan Stahl, 52, of Champaign will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Japan House, 2000 S. Lincoln Ave., U. Ron Rothschild will officiate.
   Mittendorf-Calvert Funeral Home, 2400 Galen Drive, C, is in charge of arrangements.
   Mr. Stahl died at 1:10 a.m. Thursday (May 6, 2004) at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana.

[Update: Steve Asher pointed me to this on Inside Illinois

Steven Alan Stahl, 52, died May 6 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Stahl, a UI professor of curriculum and instruction, joined the faculty in 2002. Memorials: Steven A. Stahl Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the International Reading Association, the American Cancer Society or the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance. 

and this on the same issue, in the Achievements section:

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The late Steven A. Stahl, professor of curriculum and instruction, recently was honored by the International Reading Association with the 2004 William S. Gray Citation of Merit in recognition of his significant contributions to reading education. Stahl died May 6.

The award, named for the first president of the association, recognizes a nationally or internationally known scholar for outstanding contributions to the field of reading. Stahl was best known for his research on two elements of the reading process – vocabulary and decoding. He also was widely known for his work in the more general area of early reading instruction.

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