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College of Arts
and Sciences | The College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University, the core academic college representing approximately one-half of the institution, has just announced that it will vastly expand its summer course offerings, allowing students the opportunity to choose from a wide variety of general education, transfer credit, and academic major course offerings. “Unlike many residential universities where students stay on campus year round,” explained Dean Olson, “Illinois State students have tended to leave for the summer because we offered so few courses. We hope to change the mindset of our students by making available to them the kinds of courses and activities that will encourage them to stay here all year.”
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| Charles Thompson | Charles Thompson, Professor of Biological Sciences, will deliver the College’s Fall Lecture, “Life in Little Wooden Houses on the Prairie: What House Wrens Have Taught Us about the Evolution of Reproductive Tactics,” on Tuesday, November, 15, at 7:30 p.m., in the Bone Student Center Old Main Room. Thompson was selected by a committee of the College Council to speak at the lecture series, whose purpose is to honor Arts and Sciences faculty members who have made outstanding scholarly contributions to the University and their disciplines. Thompson, who has been at Illinois State University since 1978, is the recipient of numerous external research grants, including a current NSF grant for over $600,000, and the author of three edited books and over 75 research papers and abstracts. "Professor Thompson is an accomplished scholar whose description of his field work is sure to be both informative and entertaining," said Dean Olson. "I am looking forward to his lecture on Tuesday night."
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Outstanding College Researchers
from left: Ali Riaz and David Williams.
Not pictured: Roberta Seelinger Trites | The College of Arts and Sciences Research Proposal Review Committee (RPRC) has announced this year's Outstanding College Researchers: Ali Riaz, Associate Professor of Politics and Government; Roberta Seelinger Trites, Professor of English; and David Williams, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences. 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 Researcher Award. "As usual, choosing award winners from an impressive pool of nominees was simultaneously difficult and enjoyable," said Associate Dean Sam Catanzaro. "The RPRC was honored to review the portfolios of all these internationally recognized nominees, and we were reminded once again of how talented and accomplished our colleagues are."
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Moore receiving his check from
the Millken Family Foundation.
Photo courtesy of The Pantagraph | Illinois State University mathematics graduate and Bloomington High School math teacher Drew Moore was awarded $25,000 recently by the Milken Family Foundation—the country’s largest national teacher recognition program—in recognition of his outstanding efforts in the field of education. In just five years since his graduation in 2000, Moore has made a huge impact on students, parents, and his colleagues at Bloomington High School. Described as an innovative, energetic, and enthusiastic teacher, Moore became one of only three Illinois teachers to receive the Milken National Educator Award this year. Unlike most teaching awards, the Milken Educator Awards have no formal nomination or application process.
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From left: Dean Gary Olson,
Stanley Fish, Provost John Presley,
and College Community Board Chair
Chuck Witte | Internationally renowned scholar Stanley Fish presented his lecture, "Three on a Match: Intelligent Design, Holocaust Denial, Postmodernism," to a packed house of over 700 people in the Bone Student Center Ballroom on Thursday, November 10. The crowd—which was so large the event had to be moved to a larger venue—was treated to an hour-long lively talk during which Fish took on intelligent designers, holocaust deniers, and postmodernists. Fish explored the rhetoric and arguments employed by each in making his claim that, oddly enough, it is now the conservative right that is using the rhetoric of postmodern liberalism to gain a hearing for arguments in favor of intelligent design and holocaust denial.
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