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| Mercury I | Mercury I solar race team has accepted the challenge of designing, building, and racing a vehicle powered only by the sun’s radiant energy and will compete in the North American Solar Challenge this summer. Undergraduate Engineering Physics major Vikram Jhaveri became interested in the race and approached Associate Professor of Physics Daniel Holland, who previously worked with NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They enlisted help from Assistant Professor David Thomas Marx, whose interests include novel energy conversion devices, such as solar cells. This collaboration has grown into a multidisciplinary team of more than 25 students, faculty, and alumni from four departments who volunteer time and energy to advance their skills and the promise of renewable energy.
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Samples of what students read
through the reading non-fiction
initiative | In the era of reality television, English graduate students at ISU are engaged in a project that brings reality to the grade-school classroom. Students in Jim Meyer's (Assistant Professor of English) Recent Research in English Language Arts course are engaged in a project to develop innovative ways to incorporate nonfiction texts into lesson plans for local teachers of grades 3 - 8. Teachers at Pepper Ridge Elementary School in BloomingtonTremont Grade School, Tremont Junior High School, and Beverly Manor School in Washington took part in this exclusive project. A grant from ISU’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching supported purchasing the nonfiction books, which covered subjects from ancient Egypt to the weather to extreme sports. Support was also provided by a community literacy grant from the State Fa
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| Model Illinois Government Team | Students from ISU’s Department of Politics and Government competed in the 27th annual Model Illinois Government (MIG) simulation at the Springfield capitol complex earlier this month. The event is a realistic and thrilling opportunity for students to experience the process of democratic government in a setting that allows the student to sit at legislators’ desks and not just use the microphones, voting buttons, and behind-the-scenes meeting rooms, but debate current issues facing the State of IllinoisThis year, students deliberated on such issues as granting illegal immigrants the right to obtain driver’s licenses and designating a Ronald Reagan Day in Illinois.
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Dr. Skip Nelson discusses the
characteristics of the St. Louis
Limestone at Pere Marquette State | The Department of Geography-Geology and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) recenty pledged to continue their partnership for a second year. The partnership involves Department faculty providing continuing education to IEPA personnel in return for a $25,000 contract that supports a number of departmental initiatives, including student summer support, faculty travel, and service contracts for analytical equipment. "The benefits of this partnership are tremendous," said Dave Malone, Department Chair of Geography-Geology.
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| Dr. Laura Berk | Within the labyrinth of corridors of DeGarmo Hall is the fourth floor office of Laura Berk, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Psychology. Although she took early retirement in August, 2001, she continues an active career of research, writing, teaching, and service in child development. Last fall, Berk was appointed to the national board of Jumpstart, a nonprofit organization that delivers early literacy intervention to poverty-stricken preschoolers throughout the nation, with college and university students serving as intervenors. This past fall, she initiated a collaborative effort on the part of the College of Arts and Sciences,the College of Education, and the College of Applied Sciences and Technology to establish an ISU-Jumpstart partnership, with an anticipated startup in Fall 2005.
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| Dale and Judy Marshall | The College of Arts and Sciences Office cordially invites you to join us in saying farewell to Judy Marshall at a reception on March 23rd in Stevenson 401 from 2:00-4:00 p.m.Judy retired at the end of February after working 11 ½ years in the College Office.
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