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Dean Olson cordially invites all faculty, emeritus faculty, staff, students, administrators, and friends to join him in a welcoming ceremony for the College of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame, Class of 2005. The reception will take place on Friday, February 18th from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in the Founder's Suite of the Bone Student Center and is free and open to the public. "Nineteen of the College's most prominent alums will return to campus for induction into our Hall of Fame—the highest honor the College bestows on its alumni," said Dean Olson. "This welcoming reception gives all those in the community who may have associated with one or more of our inductees the opportunity to welcome them back to campus and to congratulate them on this achievement."
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| Faculty members from ISU’s Department of Communication and the College of Education who are working to ensure early career teachers in high-need schools have the training and support they need to be successful were recently honored with a 2005 Broadcast Education Association Award of Excellence. Drs. Steve Hunt, Lance Lippert, and Brent Simonds (Department of Communication) and Drs. Maureen Angell, Penny Kolloff, and Marilyn Moore (College of Education) have worked to re-design and transform the way colleges of education and colleges of arts and sciences prepare graduates to teach in high-need Illinois K-12 schools as part of a $12.5 million, five-year Teacher Quality Enhancement (TQE) grant through the U.S. Department of Education. “We began as a group of faculty members interested in at-risk students and the teachers who teach them,” said Dr. Hunt. “After speaking with some of these teachers who deal with unimaginable situations in the classroom, we were inspired to develop practical teaching tools to prepare teachers before they go into the classroom and to support them once they are in the classroom.”
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Smurlo showing students
a model river system | Kim Smurlo, a senior Geography major, has been awarded a prestigious National Geographic Society Internship in Washington D.C. Smurlo is one of only nine students interning at the National Geographic Society this year, and she was chosen over more than 100 other applicants. Moreover, Smurlo is the fourth student from ISU’s Department of Geography/Geology who has interned at the National Geography Society in the past four years. “My colleagues and I are very pleased that Kim was selected as a National Geographic Society intern this year,” said David Malone,Chair of the Department of Geography-Geology. “It will be a great experience for her, and I am confident that she will represent our Department well.”
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ISU’s Innocence Project, a student organization that investigates inmates’ allegations of wrongful conviction, won the Film Your Issue national college competition for their public service announcement “Judicial Injustice.” Dr. John McHale (Assistant Professor of Communication) and Dr. Dawn Beichner (Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice) serve as advisors to the organization. The PSA is based on Dr. McHale’s award-winning documentary “Picture This: The Battle to Save Joe Amrine,” which was used to free Missouri death row inmate Joe Amrine in 2003. “This honor shows that students have great opportunities in the Department of Communication,” said McHale. “When they take advantage of those opportunities, they do as well as any students anywhere in the world."
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The College has created an “Excellence Fund” that will enable donors to support academic excellence in the College. The fund will be used, for example, to reward exceptional student achievement, to facilitate and acknowledge outstanding faculty teaching and scholarship, and to strengthen the College’s already distinguished academic programs. "The College of Arts and Sciences Excellence Fund will allow us to support initiatives that are central to the College’s mission of providing high-quality educational programs shaped by the scholarly and creative achievements of a nationally-recognized faculty and supported by the commitment of a talented and dedicated staff," said Dean Olson.” The Excellence Fund will also help the College to strengthen its outreach efforts to the local and state community. Donors interested in contributing to the Excellence Fund should contact the College’s development officer, Dorothy Witte (dmwitte@ilstu.edu).
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| Rain Forest Ecology students in Costa Rica |
While most ISU students headed home for holiday break, a select group of biology majors enrolled in Rain Forest Ecology headed for Costa Rica in order to study the natural history of tropical organisms and to conduct investigations as a part of the Biological Sciences International Studies Program. Rain Forest Ecology is a course specifically designed to teach students not only about the structure of rain forests, but also to differentiate rain forests from temperate forests in terms of how they adapt to the wet tropics. “The students universally feel this is a most valuable educational experience,” said Dr. Joseph Armstrong, who led the group along with Dr. Steven Juliano. “They get to see and learn about the natural history of many tropical organisms, and there are lots of pretty cool plants and animals around.”
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