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Dr. Frank Shaw, Kathryn Sokolowski,
Leroy Jones, and James Rice at
the Palm Court Jazz Clubmusicians
back to the Big Easy. | The team from Illinois State worked on the homes of two musicians: Lawrence Batiste, a snare drummer for a jazz trio at Riverwalk, and Andrea “Drea” Lee, who sings with the New Orleans Opera Association and works in the Psychology Department at Loyola University. “We are proud to have faculty and students who are willing to spend their free time helping those in need,” said Dean Olson. “While we often praise excellence in teaching and research, the service commitment of our faculty and students is often overlooked, yet it is no less impressive.”
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Sharon Engel, a master's student
in Chemistry, explains her research
to Associate Dean Catanzaro as her
thesis advisor Dr. Greg Ferrence looks on. | The College of Arts and Sciences was well-represented in this year’s Graduate Research Symposium, showcasing student research, scholarship, and creative achievement. Over 80 percent of the nearly 200 participants in the Symposium were from College of Arts and Sciences programs. The Symposium, which was held on March 24, allowed graduate students to present their research to a large audience in a professional setting through poster displays, multimedia displays, table displays, and oral presentation sessions by students. "The Graduate Research Symposium is a perennial highlight of the academic year, because it showcases the great quality and diversity of the work students are doing under the direction of their faculty advisors and mentors,” said Associate Dean Sam Catanzaro. “It was great to see so many different students and faculty from the College represented."
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| Dr.Richard Stivers | Richard Stivers, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, has been invited to deliver three lectures to the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union located in Brussels, Belgium. The Commission is one of three primary institutions holding decision-making powers on behalf of the sovereign member states of the EU and is responsible for managing the day-to-day business of the European Union. Stivers's lectures to the Commission will draw from three of his recent publications: Shades of Loneliness: Pathologies of a Technological Society, published in 2004; “Ethical Individualism and Moral Collectivism in America,” published in Humanitas in 2003; and Technology as Magic: The Triumph of the Irrational, published in 1999. “This is a tremendous honor for Professor Stivers,” said Dean Olson. “The College is proud to have one of Illinois State's finest making significant international contributions."
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| Dr. James Knox | Dr. James Knox, the Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin and the world expert on the Upper Mississippi River Basin, will present the 2006 Distinguished Geography Lecture on March 30. His presentation, “Living with Uncertainty: Changes of Climate, Land Cover, and Floods in the Upper Mississippi Valley,” will focus on research that indicates the upper Mississippi River watershed may be experiencing a modern analogue of past warm episodes. If this is the case, there is a high probability that in the early 21st century, the Upper Mississippi Valley will experience high frequencies of both moderately large floods and droughts. The lecture, which is funded by a generous gift from Professor Emerita E. Joan Miller, will be held on Thursday, March 30, at 3:00 p.m. in the Circus Room at the Bone Student Center.
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| Dr.Maria Pao | In the 1920s, how did the novel experience of riding in a car change people’s conception and understanding of visual perception and language? Maria Pao, Associate Professor of Spanish, once wrote an article exploring the attempts of some Spanish authors to reproduce the experience of traveling by automobile. Pao’s specialty is Spanish Peninsular literature and poetry of the early 20th century, which was a period of immense change and transformation in the Western world and in Spain in particular. “Having lost the remains of its empire in the 1898 war against the United States,Spain was wrestling with identity issues: What happened to its glory days? Where did things go wrong? How should it approach its future? So I’m interested in seeing how the literature of the period reflected those complex, exciting, and also anxiety-producing times," said Pao. "Sometimes the tone of the works is grave and philosophic, but other times it’s playful and silly. What I try to do in my work is to show how texts produce their effect.”
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