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Research Enhancement Award Winners
from left: Dr. Charles Orser,
Dr. Susan Sprecher, Dr. Kevin Edwards,
Dr. Laura Vogel, Dr. Doug Whitman,
and Dr. Rachel Bowden.
Not pictured: Dr. David Borst,
Dr. Paul Garris, Dr. Sabine Loew,
and Dr. William Perry. | Dean Olson announced the recipients of this year’s Research Enhancement Awards (REAs), highly competitive internal grant awards intended to promote high-quality research, scholarship, and creative activity by tenured and tenure-track faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences. The awards provide seed funds for scholarly or creative projects that will produce pilot data or other preliminary work for proposals to be submitted to outside funding agencies, and they fund excellent scholarly or creative activities of a one-time nature (such as completion of a significant book). The awards are funded up to a maximum of $3,000 toward one of two purposes: a course release or student assistants. "I am extremely impressed with the quality of scholarship being done by our faculty," said Dean Olson. "The REA proposals clearly demonstrate that many of our faculty are engaged in exciting, cutting-edge research."
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| Dr. Karen Coats | Professor Karen Coats examines formation of the self in her new book, Looking Glasses and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children’s Literature. Coats provides an introduction to an increasingly influential body of difficult work while claiming that children’s textual encounters are as significant as their existential ones in constituting their subjectivities and giving shape to their desires.She shows how literature has come to define and help children cope with the inevitable losses and separations of childhood and how discourses of race, gender, and desire get written on our bodies, transformus into the subjects we are. As Coats explains, “If you’re looking for an introduction to Lacanian theory complete with humble pigs and little lost bats and articulate spiders, then this is your book.”
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The College Faculty Status Committee has approved the application for the new Dean's Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement—two annual awards of $3,000 each, one for a tenured faculty member and one for an untentured tenure-track faculty member. The awards will be based on a calendar year's research and will join the Arts and Sciences Lecturer Award as the two most prestigious research awards in the College. "I am thrilled to have the guidelines for these awards in place, as it represents just one more step we are taking to recognize people in the College for the truly outstanding work they are doing," said Dean Olson. Since excellence in research can often lead to external funding opportunities, this award is also meant to reward efforts that can ultimately help the College reduce its dependence on state funding.
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| Dr. Heidi Harbers | Dr. Heidi Harbers has earned the Illinois Clinical Achievement Award presented by the Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Harbers, an associate professor of Speech Pathology and Audiology, will be honored at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association national convention on November 18 for her service-learning projects in central-Illinois school districts. Chair Walt Smoski applauds Harbers’ efforts: “This award recognized by both the Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association indicates the scope and depth of the work Dr. Harbers has been doing for the past three years. I know that the information gained from this service-learning project will aid many children with reading problems throughout the United States.
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Dr. Herman Brockman
and Dr. Craig Tomlinson | Dr. Craig Tomlinson (BS 73, MS 78) returned to campus on November 11 to deliver the 2004 Brockman Alumni Seminar in Genetics. The seminar series—established in 1998 by a group of former students to honor Dr. Herman Brockman upon his retirement—showcases Illinois State alumni who have gone on to become leaders in the field of genetics research. "The fine work being done by Dr. Brockman's former students is testament to his talent as a teacher," said Dean Olson. "It is clear that his students not only learned a great deal from him, but that they also developed a strong bond with him that compelled them to honor him with the lecture series and loyally return to campus for the series every year."
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Dr. Lotus Hershberger,
Professor Emeritus of
Mathematics, examines student
artwork in the Art Galleries
following the luncheon. | The College of Arts and Sciences Emeritus Faculty Advisory Board held its inaugural meeting on Monday, November 8th. At the meeting, the members of the Board—23 emeritus faculty—formalized bylaws, and agreed to take on several iniatives including affiliation with the Renaissance Retirees newsletter; sponsorship of a fall retirement reception for all CAS retirees; and the creation of a living history series for the College that will be comprised of audio and video interviews of emeritus faculty. The meeting was followed by a gathering of over 60 people for the 4th Annual CAS Emeritus Faculty luncheon in the University Art Galleries during which President Bowman and Dean Olson addressed the group.
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