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| Don Schmidt and Carl Wenning |
Don Schmidt (Horticulturist, Department of Biological Sciences) and Carl Wenning (Coordinator, Physics Education Program) recently won this year’s College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award. Schmidt won the Civil Service Award, which is designed to recognize a civil service staff member for significant contributions to the College. Wenning was awarded the Administrative/Professional (AP) Award, which is designed to recognize an AP staff member for significant contributions to the College. “When Dean Olson announced the creation of the Staff Awards, I was very pleased,” said Business Administrative Associate Sandi Krumtinger. “The ability to recognize all the various groups of employees who contribute to the success of the College is extremely important.”
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Dr. Skibo works with
Brazilian graduate students
on pottery analysis | James Skibo (Professor of Anthropology) recently traveled to Brazil on a Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant to participate in a seminar on ethnoarchaeology and archaeology ceramic analysis and to conduct a workshop on pottery use-alteration. 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 body on curriculum and faculty development, institutional planning, and a variety of other activities. “Brazil has extremely diverse and interesting prehistoric ceramics,” said Skibo. “The objective of my visit was to share with them my method for determining pottery function and for understanding the relationship between pottery technology and use.”
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| Staphylococcus aureus | ISU biologists are sick of getting sick. A research team has been working with Kerstin Ehlert and Harald Labischinski from Bayer Healthcare in Germany to study Staphylococcus, the bacterium that causes various staph infections, and its developing resistance to the only antibiotic that is left to fight it.
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| ISU Forensics Team | The ISU Speech Birds had yet another successful first semester as they traveled around the country competing for the University. Notably, the forensics team attended nine tournaments and were awarded four first places finishes, four second place finishes and one third place finish, in an addition to roughly 27 notable individual accomplishments. Additionally, as reported in a previous issue of CAS News the policy debate team also posted a successfull fall semester. “This kind of success is really a testament to the hard-working dedication of our students,” said Dr. Joseph P. Zompetti, Director of Forensics. “With some of the most talented competitors in the country, ISU should be proud of their accomplishments.”
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| College guests at the MLK Banquet | Dean Olson hosted a table of faculty and staff at the ISU Chapter of the NAACP Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Banquet held on Monday, January 24th in the Bone Student Center. Attending the event as guests of the Dean were Dr. Sean Limon (Assistant Professor of Communication), Dr. Epa Rosa (Associate Professor of Physics), Dr. Nancy Tolson (Associate Professor of English), Dr. Lynn Worsham (Professor of English), Dr. Sam Catanzaro (Associate Dean) and Dr. Sarah Diel-Hunt (Assistant to the Dean). "When I heard about the banquet, I knew I wanted to attend, and I thought it would be nice to support the event by hosting a table and inviting a few faculty and staff as thanks for their service to the College this year," said Dean Olson. "It was a truly wonderful celebration of Dr. King's life and I throughly enjoyed the opportunity to share the evening with others in the College."
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| Dr. Richard Sullivan | Richard Sullivan is the newest faculty member to join the Department of Sociology & Anthropology. He recently earned his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he specialized in political sociology, social movements, and labor studies. Sullivan’s dissertation examined the social movement dynamics of labor organizing. He will be teaching Introductory Sociology, Social Movements, and Social Problems for the department in his first year, and in the future he will teach new courses in political sociology and labor studies. Sullivan recently served as faculty mentor for the Office of Student Life’s “Ride to Freedom: Civil Rights Trip” to Memphis, TN. “As a movement scholar and someone personally interested in the struggles of powerless people seeking justice, I thought it would be a great experience,” Sullivan explained. “I also felt, as a new faculty member that this would be a good opportunity to get to know ISU students better by spending time outside the classroom setting.”
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