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Dr. Charles Thompson | Dr. Charles Thompson and Dr. Q. Charles Su have been named the Fall 2005 and Spring 2006 Arts and Sciences Lecturers. The Arts and Sciences Lecture Series was established by action of the Arts and Sciences Council in 1968 to honor faculty members whose scholarly contributions are particularly noteworthy and to provide a more general audience for faculty research that is too often known only to disciplinary colleagues. “Dr. Thompson and Dr. Su are very deserving of the distinction that comes along with being named an Arts and Sciences Lecturer,” said Dean Olson. “Both have not only reached the heights of scholarly achievement in their respective disciplines, but they also epitomize the values of Illinois State as they maintain an unparalleled commitment to their students.”
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| Dr. Kathryn Wehrmann | Dr. Kathryn Wehrmann, an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work,was recently named a Fulbright Senior Specialist to Romania. The Fulbright Senior Specialist program provides short-term Fulbright grants of two to six weeks to provide U.S. faculty and professionals with opportunities to collaborate with professional counterparts on curriculum and faculty development, institutional planning, and a variety of other activities. Dr. Wehrmann conducted research in Romania on previous Fulbright funded trips in 2000, 2002, and 2004, that has helped Romania move forward with significant child welfare reforms. "Dr. Wehrmann's designation as a Fulbright Senior Specialist is the result of her track record over several years with the child welfare reform system in Romania," said Dr. Barbara Heyl, Interim Chair of the School of Social Work. "This designation establishes Wehrmann as an expert that Romanian government officials can consult when making policy decisions concerning child welfare."
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From left,
Jennifer Mayes (Kankakee, IL),
Mickey Ramirez (Sycamore, IL),
Hans Jin Song (Algonquin, IL),
Annalesa Feiden (Petersburg, IL),
and Daya Shabnam (St. Charles, IL)
in Dong-Ah. | Five students from the Department of Communication are gaining the experience of a lifetime as a result of a longterm partnership between Illinois State University and Dong-Ah (East Asia) College of Broadcasting and Communication in South Korea. Dong-Ah and ISU are in their sixth year of the international exchange program, which sends Korean students to Illinois State, and American students to study in Korea. Dr. Jong Kang, Professor in ISU's Department of Communication, is the Director and founder of the program, which provides ISU students the opportunity to travel and study in Korea for less than the cost of studying at Illinois State. Moreover,Dong-Ah provides cultural education trips for the students at no cost and has even built an international student lounge complete with computers and televisions.
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| Dr. Susan Sprecher | Dr. Susan Sprecher has recently published a handbook on human sexuality in close relationships that will likely become the preeminent source book for those interested in theoretical, methodological, and empirical scholarship on this important topic. Sprecher, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, is a renowned scholar on personal relationships, and the publication of this edited volume represents an important amalgamation of the research on human sexuality and the research on close relationships.Sprecher edited the book with John Harvey (Professor of Psychology at the University of Iowa and Amy Wenzel (currently in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. The volume contains 25 chapters authored by over 50 scholars from multiple disciplines, including sociology, psychology, communication studies, family studies, and psychiatry.
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The College of Arts and Sciences recently co-sponsored a gathering of international scholars for a conference focused on the phenomenon of human consciousness. The conference, entitled “The Concepts of Consciousness: Integrating an Emerging Science,” brought together faculty and graduate students from the ISU cognitive science community—representing five different departments in the College—along with other prominent national and international cognitive science scholars. I was impressed by the intellectual excitement created by this event,” said Associate Dean Sam Catanzaro.“The faculty and students who helped make this happen—especially Scott Jordan and Dawn McBride—deserve an awful lot of credit.It’s a great example of the power of trans-disciplinary conversations.”
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| Dr. Katrin Paehler | Katrin Paehler, a native of the Federal Republic of Germany, is the History Department’s new expert on modern German history. This spring she will be offering for the first time at Illinois State an upper-level course on the Holocaust, thus preparing our students to teach this mandated topic. She obtained her master’s degree from Phillips-Universität in Marburg (the oldest Protestant university in Germany) and just successfully defended her dissertation at American University in Washington. The topic is "Espionage, Ideology, and Personnel Politics: The Making and Unmaking of a Nazi Intelligence Service." This is an especially timely topic because it deals with the misinformation that intelligence services report to their political superiors. Katrin has participated in several summer institutes and workshop at the Holocaust Museum in Washington and at the Holocaust Educational Foundation at Northwestern University. |