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Carol Sorenson with her parents,
Leland and Mary Sorenson | Carol Sorenson, a senior majoring in actuarial science, has been awarded the prestigious John Culver Wooddy Scholarship by the Actuarial Foundation. Each year, four students in the world receive a Wooddy Scholarship, established by the distinguished actuary’s estate. Eligible applicants for the scholarship, who come from all over the world, must have successfully completed at least one actuarial examination, rank in the top quartile of their class, and be nominated by a professor at their school. “In effect, Carol has been judged to be among the four best students in actuarial science in the class of 2006 in the world,” said Krzysztof M. Ostaszewski, Actuarial Program Director and Professor of Mathematics. “This is the first time any of our students has received this award. Hopefully there will be more such awards in the future.”
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Illinois State University’s Sociology department faculty is one of the nation’s most prolific sources of articles and papers on the teaching of sociology today, and their scholarship is among the most quoted in the nation by other researchers and scholars. A recent study of the most influential sociology departments of American colleges and universities revealed that Illinois State’s Sociology faculty ranks in the top 20 in the nation in terms of producing scholarship on teaching and in the top 10 in terms of citation impact of that work through 2002. “Members of our Sociology faculty represent some of the most accomplished researchers in the University, and the results of this study indicate they are also among the top in the nation,” said Dean Olson. “The work they do on sociology pedagogy sets the national standard and I am extremely proud of their work.”
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Flame Statue in front of
Stevenson Hall | The College has established guidelines for the largest cash award for faculty teaching on campus: the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching. Dean Olson announced the creation of this new teaching award last spring based on input gathered during the strategic planning process. The new award mirrors the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement in that it will comprise two awards of $3,000 each, one for a tenured faculty member and one for a pretenured, tenure-track faculty member. “Multiple recognitions for good and scholarly teaching are important as we have many outstanding teachers on campus who deserve recognition, and good teaching can occur in a number of ways,” said Kathleen McKinney, Cross Endowed Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and Professor of Sociology.
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Joseph Zompetti, Assistant Professor of Communication, recently spent two weeks as one of 28 international trainers for the 11th annual International Debate Education Association (IDEA) Youth Forum held in Struga, Macedonia. The Forum hosted 38 national teams, representing 23 countries. The teams were involved in four preliminary debates, followed by elimination rounds and culminated in a final round held at the Macedonian Parliament in Skopje Selection of international trainers for the IDEA Forum is extremely competitive.
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| Dr. Bruce Burningham | Bruce Burningham joins the Department of Foreign Languages as an assistant professor. Previous to coming to ISU, he served on the faculty at the University of Southern California. With a background in both literature and theatre, Dr. Burningham’s research interests include interdisciplinary approaches to both literary and performance texts, colonial Latin American narrative theatre, and early modern Spanish theatre. He has written on such widely divergent topics as Lope de Vega’s Arte nuevo de hacer comedias and Disney’s Toy Story. He was the recipient of an Andrew E. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship (1996-97) and a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship (2000). Dr. Burningham earned his Ph.D. from Yale University.
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