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| Dr. Norma Presmeg | On Thursday evening, Dr. Norma Presmeg, Professor of Mathematics, delivered the 73rd Arts and Sciences Lecture, "Bridging the Arts and Sciences in Mathematics Education Research" to a captive audience. During her lecture, Presmeg focused on her research on visualization. Specifically, Presmeg discussed the instrument she created to determine whether one is a visualizer—a person who uses visual mental images to solve mathematical problems—and how she used that construct to shed light on why visualizers often do not do well in mathematics courses and to develop methods by which teachers might help visualizers succeed in the classroom. "Dr. Presmeg's body of work in mathematics education research establishes her as a leading international scholar," said Dean Olson."Her lecture was insightful and impressive, and I feel honored to serve on the same faculty with Dr. Presmeg."
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Lance Cpl. Christopher E. Zimny
| On March 31, the School of Social Work will work to raise awareness and support for military families with members serving active duty. “Building Community Networks to Support Military Families: A Social Service Response” will explore a community-based social service response to the mental health and family support needs of active-duty soldiers and veterans along with their families. The goal for the day is to identify partnership opportunities intended to build a community’s capacity to deliver an effective social service response to individuals and families who have been called to service and sacrifice as members of our active, National Guard, and Reserve Component military forces. |
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Members of the Mock Trial
Red Team, which qualified for
the National Championship
Tournament | For the third year running, one of ISU’s mock trial teams has qualified to compete in the most prestigious of three national tournaments. The team qualified by placing in the top three in the regional qualifying tournament, which was held in the Will County Court House in Joliet, Illinois. ISU competed against teams from such schools as the University of Illinois, Lewis University, the University of Chicago, DePaul University, Loyola University Chicago, and Eastern Kentucky University. The fourth to seventh place teams at the regional tournament go on to compete in two other "silver" national tournaments. A win in one of those tournaments also qualifies a team for the Championship Tournament. ISU’s second team just missed qualifying to compete in those tournaments. “The fact that this is the third year in a row that we have qualified a team to compete in the National Championship Tournament demonstrates the strength of our mock trial program at ISU,” said Emeritus Professor Tom Eimermann. “This is one of the toughest regions in the country and our students rose to the challenge against some very strong competition.”
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Dr. Laura Vogel (far left) at
Parkside Junior High School | Three ISU faculty and staff in science and technology fields recently served as Career Pen Pals for a Women’s History Month Exhibit Project in an effort to encourage young female students to pursue careers in the sciences and technology. The Career Pen Pals Project and exhibit is sponsored by the ISU Department of Physics, Expanding Your Horizons Through Math, Science and Technology Conference, and the Association for Women in Science-Heart of Illinois Chapter (AWIS-HOI). “Encouraging young people to pursue their interests and aptitudes in the sciences and technology is especially important for young women," said Grace Foote Johns, Assistant to the Chairperson for Physics. "Educational outreach activities such as the EYH Conference and the Women in Science, Math, and Technology Career Pen Pals Project serve to encourage young female students to consider pursuing interesting career options in science and technology fields; provide female role models for students to look up to; and empower educators to foster equitable learning and career mentoring environments in their schools."
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The Japanese National Model
United Nations Delegation | The Japanese National Model United Nations delegation—which consists of eleven college students from universities in Japan,including Waseda University, Keio University, Osaka University, Tsukuba University, Gakushuin University, and the University of Kitakyushu—recently visited Illinois State University and were hosted by their ISU student-counterparts. The team of 13 ISU Model UN students, advised by Dr. Janie Leatherman, Director of International Affairs, organized a number of events for their Japanese teammates’ campus visit. Under the auspices of the Unit for East Asian Studies, which is part of the Office of International Studies and Programs, the Japanese students led discussions of key global issues such as the Asian Tsunami, the future of the Okinawa Base, and the abolition of the death penalty. "The Japanese students' informative presentations broadened our perspectives on concerns that we share across our different cultural and political traditions,” Leatherman said.
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| Dr. Willard Bohn | Willard Bohn, Distinguished Professor of Foreign Languages, has been selected to deliver the Oliver Smithies Lecture Series at Balliol Collegeat Oxford University in England. The series was established to bring distinguished academic visitors from abroad to give University-wide lectures. Bohn, a professor of French and Comparative Literature, will speak on the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who is generally acknowledged as the father of 20th century French poetry. An active scholar with an international reputation, Bohn has lectured on numerous topics in this country and abroad at universities such as Oxford, UCLA, Yale, the University of Illinois, Washington University, and the Sorbonne in Paris. He is a leading authority on visual poetry, Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian Futurism, and the Dada and Surrealist movements.
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