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Dr. David Malone and
Dr. James Kalmbach | College of Art and Sciences faculty won both of this year'sOutstanding University Teacher Awards, according to an announcement this week from the Office of the Provost. Dr. James Kalmbach (Professor of English) and Dr. David Malone (Chair of the Department of Geography-Geology) have won the Outstanding University Teacher Award, which recognizes tenure track faculty whose teaching accomplishments are exceptionally significant and meritorious among their colleagues across campus, and who also have received previously the Outstanding College Teacher Award. “I want to congratulate all of our winners,” said Dean Olson. “These individuals represent the University’s most talented, innovative, and dedicated teachers who excel at the most important endeavor of this and every university—teaching students.”
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| Dr. William Cupach | Provost Presley has announced that College of Arts and Sciences faculty won one of two Outstanding University Researcher Awards and four University Research Initiative Awards. Dr. William Cupach has won the Outstanding University Researcher Award, which recognizes faculty whose research accomplishments are outstanding among their peers across the entire University and who have established a national and/or international reputation in their field. Cupach's research focuses on the interpersonal communication that supports successful human relationships, and so illuminates the “dark side” of relationships by studying such phenomena as embarrassing predicaments, conflict, and stalking. His theoretical framework on obsessive relational intrusion is the leading conceptual contribution to understanding this phenomenon and is characterized by H. Dan O’Hair, Vice President of the National Communication Association, as “at the cutting edge” and having implications that “will be felt for years to come.”
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| Dr. Curtis White | Professor of English Curtis White confronts the “family disease” of alcoholism in his seventh fiction release, America’s Magic Mountain. This novel follows the enormous success of White’s recent nonfiction book, The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves, which was published by HarperSanFrancisco last year and recently issued in paperback. According to publisher Dalkey Archive, America’s Magic Mountain engages with and rewrites a modernist classic: “A contemporary version of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, Curtis White’s new novel begins with Mann’s ‘unassuming young man,’ Hans Castorp, visiting his cousin at a health retreat.
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| White House | Matthew J. Hornung, a senior Political Science major, has been awarded a highly prestigious White House Internship in Washington,D.C. for the spring semester. The Internship Program selects 100 interns per semester to work in the White House, from thousands of applications. Hornung, a native of Hickory Hills, Illinois, will initially be assigned to the White House Correspondence Office where he will be responsible for reading mail addressed to President Bush and his Cabinet, researching the issues raised in the letters and e-mails, and drafting Presidential responses.
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Dr. Timothy Hunt,
Dr. Kasia Stadnik, and
Dean Olson | Beginning January 1, the English Language Institute (ELI) will become a College-supported unit. Formerly sponsored by the Department of English, ELI provides a special non-degree intensive program in English as a Second Language with equal emphasis on both communicative and academic needs for international students who wish to increase their English proficiency for college-level work or for international students on exchange programs. “Becoming a part of the College will strengthen ELI and ensure its continued success,” said Tim Hunt, chair of the Department of English. “ELI now will have the opportunity to expand its operations and become a genuinely College-wide—even University-wide—service.”
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James Amemasor (center) with
Dr. Gary McGinnis (left) and
Dr. Tony Adedze (right) | Three College of Arts and Sciences graduate students were recently honored at the sixteenth annual Fisher Thesis Award Ceremony. History master’s student James Amemasor was the overall University winner for his thesis, “A Taste of Freedom: The Benjamin Major Collection of Letters from Emancipated American Slaves in Liberia, 1836-1851.” “I’m glad that I came to study at this state university in the land of Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator,” said Amemasor, who came to ISU from Ghana. “As I step out of ISU, I promise to be one of its numerous ambassadors, and receiving this prestigious award is further motivation for me to do more, for no single achievement is final.”
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