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Trustee Glenn (front right) enjoys
lunch with members of the
Faculty Retention/
Implementation Committee | On Tuesday, April 12, Diane Glenn, a member of ISU's Board of Trustees, visited the College of Arts and Sciences as a part of the Trustee-in-Residence Program. Under this program, Trustees spend a half-day visiting one College on campus each semester to educate themselves on various programs within the College. Trustees rotate their visits so that they visit each College every few years. For this year’s visit, Glenn dined in McAlister's Restaurant with members of the College's Faculty Retention/Implementation Committee; visited the Neuroscience Research Laboratories; engaged in a spontaneous, live interview about her famous uncle on WGLT Radio Station; and enjoyed a viewing of the stars at the Planetarium. "I think Trustee Glenn found her visit to be both informative and entertaining," said Dean Olson. "At lunch, she got to hear about how a group of faculty members on the Retention/Implementation Committee have taken on the issue of improving campus climate for all faculty members. That was followed by a light-hearted visit to WGLT where she got to share her childhood memories of her famous uncle, Johnny Hartman. That was fun for us all."
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Matt Kiesewetter with
Dr. Cheryl Stevenson and
Dr. Richard Reiter | Chemistry graduate student Matt Kiesewetter has been awarded a $121,500 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program grant to fund his Ph.D. work at the university of his choice; he will begin his doctoral program at Stanford University in September. “This is truly an outstanding achievement,” said Dean Olson. “To receive a grant of this magnitude as a student and to be able to use it for doctoral study at one of the finest institutions in the country is quite an accomplishment, and it demonstrates how well our faculty are preparing our students to undertake rigorous work.”
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| Teri Farr | Teri Farr, Undergraduate Advisor for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, has been elected to the national leadership position of Chair of the Advising Adult Learners Commission of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA)—an association of professional advisors, counselors, faculty, administrators, and students working to enhance the educational development of students. Beginning October 2005, Farr will be responsible for providing leadership and direction to the commission regarding its special advising area of interest, promoting participation in commission activities and conference programming, and proposing and facilitating activities and publications to advance the professional development of members. In this role, Farr will be contributing not only to the Association but also to the profession of advising and higher education in general.
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| Dr. James Alstrum | Dr. James Alstrum, Professor of Spanish, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant for residency at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia where he will teach and conduct research, in the Colombian satirical tradition, on poetry and prose. Alstrum is known for his research in the areas of contemporary Spanish American Literature and Colombian Literature from all periods, with two books on Colombian poets or poetry: La sátira y la antipoesía de Luis Carlos López and La generación desencantada de Golpe de Dados. He recently published a book-length translation for the University of North Carolina Press about the metallurgical workers union movement in Peru during the decades of the sixties and seventies entitled, To Be a Worker: Identity & Politics in Peru.
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The Department of Physics, along with the Physics Club, will participate in “Physics Enlightens the World,” an international event recognizing the World Year of Physics 2005, and the 100-year anniversary of Albert Einstein’s discoveries in physics. Beginning Monday, April 18, the Department of Physics and the Physics Club will help send a light signal in a continuous relay around the globe as a part of the event. The light signal will begin in New Jersey and move west before completing its global journey and ending back at its origin of Princeton(where Einstein spent his last years).
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Professor Edris
Cooper-Anifowoshe | On Friday, April 8, the Women’s Studies Program held its 10th Annual Women's Studies Symposium, established by Dr. Sandra Harmon. The day-long event showcased the best in undergraduate and graduate research from students working in gender studies and gave students in Women’s Studies classes the opportunity to present their work in a conference-like setting where they received feedback and support for their projects. Highlights from the conference included panels on women’s autobiography, gender as performance, women in literature, feminist activism, representations of gender and conflict, peacemaking, and women’s health. "The Women's Studies Symposium provides a great opportunity for students to present their work and speak in public," said Dean Olson. "This symposium also allows students to contextualize current gender issues, thus enhancing their classroom experience."
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