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| CASNews | Following this issue, CAS News will begin a new summer schedule of monthly publication, with issues published on the third Monday of June, July, and August. Please look for summer issues of CAS News on June 20, July 18, and August 18. Weekly publication will resume with the beginning of fall classes on August 22.
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| Dr. W. Roger Biles | The Department of History has successfully completed its search for a new chair—Dr. W. Roger Biles will assume the role on July 16, 2005. Biles comes to ISU from Illinois University, where he was on a Visiting Professor appointment last year, and East Carolina University where he has served as Professor and Department Chair. “Dr. Biles is an experienced administrator and a respected scholar, and we are fortunate to have attracted him,” said Dean Olson. “As a top-notch administrator who prides himself on recruiting, retaining, and mentoring outstanding teacher-scholars all the while maintaining his own very active research agenda, Dr. Biles will add much to the Department, the College, and the University, and I am pleased to welcome him to ISU.”
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| Dr. Karen Coats |
Karen Coats, Associate Professor of English, has been awarded one of twelve nationally competitive Howard Foundation Fellowships. The award of $20,000 will augment her sabbatical leave. While on sabbatical, Coats will work on a book investigating humor in children’s literature and analyzing how the humor deployed in texts for children functions as a force for development rather than simply passive entertainment or an additive to help instruction go down more smoothly. “I will argue that the use of dramatic irony in children’s picture books develops certain literary and subjective competencies that enable children to negotiate a supple postmodern identity,” said Coats. “I will also be looking at how humor can create affirmative communities, especially among traditionally marginalized and disenfranchised groups, whose members then emerge with the power and confidence to subvert or challenge the hegemony of cool that dominates teen social structures.”
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| Mike Hart, a senior mass communication major from Aurora, Illinois, has been awarded the prestigious College Media Advisers Journalism Internship with the Student Press Law Center in Washington DC for the summer. Since 1974, the Student Press Law Center in Washington, DC, for the summer. Since 1974, the Student Press Law Center has been the nation's only legal assistance agency devoted exclusively to educating high school and college journalists about the rights and responsibilities embodied in the First Amendment and supporting the student news media in its struggle to cover important issues free from censorship. Hart is the first ISU student to earn this highly-coveted position. “This is a Super Bowl type internship,” said Rick Jones, General Manager of the Vidette. “Most of the top journalism programs in the country have top students interested in this internship. Mike's selection says a great deal about the quality of this young man, his academic endeavors, as well as his distinguished service to the Vidette. I believe Mike's participation in the SPLC program further validates the status of The Daily Vidette as a leading collegiate newspaper and underlines the quality of the journalism program now being offered through the Department of Communication.”
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Project SEED mentors from left:
Dr. David Cedeno and
Dr. Craig McLauchlan | Chemistry faculty have received funding to continue Project SEED, a nationwide fellowship program sponsored by the American Chemical Society that encourages economically disadvantaged students to consider pursuing scientific careers. Volunteer faculty will serve as mentors for one or two local high school students during 8 weeks of summer. This will be the third year ISU has taken part in the program. “This program is an important and beautiful way to outreach to our community and is greatly appreciated by the counselors, teachers, and families of the students involved,” said David L. Cedeno, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Project SEED coordinator.
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Members of the "I Ask Why"
PRSSA Team | For the first time in school history, ISU’s Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) chapter placed third in the nation in the annual Bateman National Competition for its "I Ask Why" campaign, which targeted academic honesty on college campuses. In April, the team was informed it was one of three finalists in the prestigious annual competition along with Loyola-New Orleans and Texas State University. On May 2, the team made a final presentation to a group of judges from PRSSA and had a videotape of their performance further evaluated by a team of distinguished public relations experts at the PRSSA national headquarters in New York. "I am very proud of my students," said Dr. Dean Kazoleas, Associate Professor of Communication and PRSSA faculty advisor. "Each year these teams of PRSSA students put in literally hundreds of hours researching, planning, and executing a public relations campaign for the Bateman competition, which is considered the most prestigious public relations competition in the nation for college students. This year, their efforts really paid off and we are proud to bring this honor to ISU."
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