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Biological Sciences doctoral
student Tracie Ivy in the lab. | College of Arts and Sciences faculty were awarded close to $2 million in National Science Foundation (NSF) grants in 2004, almost double the amount awarded in 2003, and the College is poised to generate even more grant funding this year. In only the first three months of the present academic year, College researchers have already been awarded $343,489 in NSF grants. With several grants pending, and the grant application season just getting under way, the College office is expecting another record-breaking year for NSF grant awards. According to Associate Dean Sam Catanzaro, "The NSF is the government agency given the mission to support and promote science, and it is one of the most respected scientific organizations in the world. Because NSF funding is so competitive, the growing success of CAS faculty in securing NSF funding highlights the quality of their work, and it constitutes significant recognition from their peers in the scientific community."
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Mathematics students hand out
surveys and at the Watterson
bus stop. | More than four hundred Math students are riding local buses in order to gather data for a study on the services provided by the Bloomington-Normal Transit System. Students are collecting data to help determine if changes would help the Transit System better serve its customers. According to Dr. Mike Plantholt, Professor of Mathematics and co-director of the project, We felt this would be a good opportunity to get students involved for two reasons. First, the students are in MAT 111, Data and Chance, and this a real experience in the gathering of data. Second, the project goal is to help Bloomington-Normal Public Transit better serve its riders, so we feel this is a good opportunity for students and faculty to help the local community.
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| Dr. Jamal Nassar | While the events of September 11, 2001 served as a wake up call for most Americans, terror has been a normal way of life for many people around the world, and it certainly has been a part of Jamal R. Nassar’s life since his birth in Jerusalem in 1946. In his new book, Globalization and Terrorism: The Migration of Dreams and Nightmares, Nassar tackles the issue of terrorism in the context of globalization.
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College Staff from left
Judy Marshall, Peggy Haycraft,
and Sandi Krumtinger | Some of the hardest working professionals in the College—the civil service and administrative professional (A/P) staff—will now be formally recognized by the College for their efforts in helping the College run smoothly. The Council of Chairs has approved the guidelines to institute the CAS Outstanding Staff Awards. The awards are designed to recognize a civil service and an A/P staff member for significant contributions to the College. Two $1,500 awards will be presented at the annual college awards ceremony in February. According to Sandi Krumtinger, business/administrative associate to the Dean, "The staff in the College play an important role and they often do not get the recognition they deserve for enhancing departments' abilities to achieve the their missions. The CAS Outstanding Staff Awards are a good way to recognize that contribution." Krumtinger played a central role in drafting the guidelines for the awards.
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| Amy M. Bloom | Amy M. Bloom joins the Department of Geography-Geology as Assistant Professor of Environmental Geography. She received her B.A. in Geology, with a double minor in Biology and Environmental Studies, from Augustana College and her M.S. in Geography from the University of Utah. Currently, she is in the final stages of completing her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Utah. Bloom's research interests lie in the areas of Quaternary environments, climate and environmental change, paleolimnology, and biogeography. Her dissertation research focuses on the study of lake sediments from alpine lakes in the Sierra Nevada to quantitatively reconstruct a high-resolution record of past climatic and environmental conditions—including drought events—for the region throughout the last 10,000 years.
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