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Peace Corps Master's
International Student
Dan Wienecke | This March, Dan Wienecke will depart for training and service in Kazakhstan where he will assist nongovernment organizations in improving organizational operations, gaining access to resources, providing training, facilitating needs assessments, and building partnerships. Wienecke is a student in the Stevenson Center's Peace Corps Master's International Program, which combines graduate school with Peace Corps service. As such, he has started his master's program in the Department of Politics and Government and will now enhance that with his experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kazakhstan. “Dan has shared with Stevenson Center staff how fundamental his training at Illinois State will be to his work in Kazakhstan,” says Frank Beck, Faculty Director of the Stevenson Center and Associate Professor of Sociology. “We, at the Center, and the affiliated faculty of Economics, Politics and Government, and Sociology extend our best wishes to Dan as he begins this next stage of his professional and personal journey.”
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| Young authors in Stevenson Hall | “It’s fun to come to a place where nobody makes fun of you because you like to write.” As soon as she read these words on one of the evaluation forms for the first Young Writers Workshop at ISU, Associate Director of Writing Programs Dr. Claire Lamonica knew the program had achieved its first goal: giving middle school students an opportunity to grow as writers in a safe, supportive, co-curricular environment. Since that first workshop in the winter of 2000, the Department of English and the Illinois State Writing Project (ISWP) have co-sponsored eight more workshops for fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students. The 2005 workshop, Subscribe to Writing, is currently underway, and on Saturday mornings, Stevenson Hall is enlivened by the sounds of a dozen young writers at work and play. "This is a wonderful workshop that benefits children in the community and offers our faculty the opportunity to share their excitement for writing with a young audience," said Dean Olson. "The Writing Project is yet another example of ways in which the College of Arts and Sciences plays an important role in the Bloomington-Normal community."
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| Teaching and research well field | Dr. Stephen Van der Hoven (Geography-Geology) and Dr. William Perry (Biological Sciences) along with students in the new Hydrogeology Masters program are collaborating on research to examine the response of Little Kickapoo Creek to the new wastewater treatment plant for Bloomington-Normal. “The construction of new wastewater treatment plants is a rare event and provides a unique opportunity to study the potential short and long-term effects on streams receiving wastewater effluent,” said Eric Peterson, Assistant Professor of Geology-Geography.
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On Friday, February 4, CAS faculty, staff, and students gathered to celebrate the 2004-2005 accomplishments of the College during the annual awards ceremony. The College of Arts and Sciences Awards Ceremony provides public recognition of faculty, staff, and students in the College for their exemplary academic and scholarly achievements. “Universities are filled with very high achieving people who often prefer to let their accomplishments speak for themselves, and we often do not do enough to recognize the excellence of our faculty, staff, and students,” explained Dean Gary Olson. “But we in the College of Arts and Sciences have many stories of excellence to celebrate, and it is a ceremony such as this one where we can pause and take note of the excellence that we are all a part of.”
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| Dr. Lynn Worsham | Lynn Worsham, Professor of English, is a distinguished scholar of rhetorical theory, critical theory, feminist theory, women’s literature, African American literature, and postcolonial literature. The author of numerous books and articles, Dr. Worsham is also the editor of JAC, a journal publishing scholarship in rhetoric, writing, and culture. Her Ph.D. in Humanities is from the University of Texas at Arlington, and she has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she coordinated the Graduate Program in Rhetoric and Composition Studies (1992-1994) and the Graduate Program in Modern Studies (1994-1996), and at the University of South Florida, where she also coordinated the Graduate Program in Rhetoric and Composition (2003).
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