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College Outstanding Service
Award winners from left:
Sabine Loew and Gary Klass.
Pictured below: Janice Neuleib | Three faculty members have won the College Outstanding Service Award for their extraordinary service accomplishments. The College Council announced the selection of Gary Klass, Associate Professor of Politics and Government; Sabine Loew, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences; and Janice Neuleib, Professor of English, as the 2005 winners. Each year the committee selects one winner from each of the College's three divisions: humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Winners of the award are eligible to be nominated in future years for the Outstanding University Service Award. "All of the portfolios that the committee read were impressive," said Maria Pao, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Chair of the College Council Service Award Committee. "But the award winners demonstrated a level of generosity and dedication to their students, university, profession, and community which we found really exceptional and worthy of recognition."
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| Dr. Sue Sprecher | Sue Sprecher, Professor of Sociology, has received an award for exceptional merit by the SSTAR (Society for Sex Therapy and Research) Health Professional Book Award Committee. The Committee recently announced the winners of its first book awards, which will be presented at the SSTAR 2006 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Sprecher's book, The Handbook of Sexuality in Close Relationships, which is co-edited by John H. Harvey and Amy Wenzel,covers sexuality in relation to age, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, among other factors. According to SSTAR in its media release announcing the award, "Rather than focusing only on relationship issues in sexuality, the book covers clinical applications.
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| Tyson Mohr | Tyson Mohr, a senior Philosophy major, was recently named the Illinois Philosophical Association’s essay contest winner for his paper titled, “Locke and the Contemporary Situation: Would Locke be a Libertarian?” Mohr was the only undergraduate student to present a paper at the Association’s conference held November 4-5 at Eastern Illinois University. In addition to this achievement, Mohr has also had papers accepted at two other academic conferences. He recently presented his paper “Locke and Libertarianism” at the 5th Annual Steven Humphrey Student Philosophy Colloquium at the University of Louisville, and he will also be presenting a paper at the 16th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy and Religion Conference at Truman State University later this month. "Tyson has proven that ISU students are among the very best trained philosophy undergraduates in the state," said James Swindler, Chair of the Department of Philosophy. "He has worked closely on his research projects with philosophy faculty, and we are very proud of the results."
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| CASNews | Subscriptions to CASNews recently topped 4,200, and CASNews on the web has received 1.5 million hits as readership of the College’s weekly electronic newsletter continues to grow. Since it was launched in September 2004 as a mechanism to facilitate College transparency and openness, 48 issues of CASNews have been published containing over 300 stories chronicling College successes. CASNews is sent out weekly to College faculty, staff, students, and alumni as well as to University administrators, the Board of Trustees, and the College’s three advisory boards.
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| Paul S. Anderson | Paul S. Anderson came to ISU’s Department of Geography-Geology in 1982 after six years in Australia (Ph.D. and first faculty employment) and then nearly five years in Brazil. A native of St. Charles, he returned to Illinois to raise his family and he taught at ISU for 21 years. His courses mainly were in General Education (World Geography and Geography of Latin America), plus map and photo interpretation courses. While at ISU, he received two Fulbright grants and two Rotary International Teacher Grants, working a total of 2 ½ years in Brazil and Mozambique. During this period he saw the need to improve living conditions of families in developing countries, and from these experiences his current interest in the cooking stove project materialized.
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