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| Dr.Q Charles Su | Q. Charles Su, Professor of Physics, will deliver the College’s Spring Arts and Sciences Lecture, “Enlightened by Lasers,” on Tuesday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Bone Student Center Old Main Room. Su was selected by a committee of the College Council to speak at the lecture series intended to honor Arts and Sciences faculty members who have made outstanding scholarly contributions to the University and their disciplines. Su, who has been at Illinois State since 1994, was recognized with a 1997 Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Science Award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Most recently, Su, along with his colleague Rainer Grobe, was awarded the prestigious 2006 American Physical Society Prize for research in an undergraduate institution.
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| Dr. Linda Clemmons | Linda Clemmons, Assistant Professor of History, recently won the 2006 Frederick C. Luebke Award for outstanding regional scholarship for her article, “‘We Will Talk of Nothing Else’: Dakota Interpretation of the Treaty of 1837,” published in Great Plains Quarterly in 2005. The award, created by the Center for Great Plains Studies, honors the career of Frederick C. Luebke, a historian at the University of Nebraska and a pioneer in the study of ethnicity and culture in the American West."Linda Clemmons is one of the new Native American historians who apply historiographical and anthropological tools of analysis to the study of Native American history," said Roger Biles, chair of the Department of History. "By rejecting the traditional approach that dealt almost exclusively with federal government policy, these historians have invested the study of American Indians with a new richness and sophistication. “Linda's receipt of the Luebke Award indicates how highly her cutting-edge scholarship is valued by the New Indian historians."
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Sarah Diel-Hunt and University
President Al Bowman | The Civil Service and Administrative Professionals Awards Ceremony, held April 11, recognized Administrative/Professionals and Civil Service staff members who have faithfully served Illinois University. Sarah Diel-Hunt, Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, was honored with the Distinguished Service Award for Administrative/Professionals—the highest non-faculty award given by the University—for her consistent, outstanding contributions to not only the College, but also the University and community. “The whole College is delighted that our own Sarah Diel-Hunt was presented with this prestigious award,” said Dean Olson. "Her dedication to the College and the University is truly extraordinary.”
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| Dr. Lon Carlson |
Lon Carlson, Associate Professor of Economics, can tell you why it may be beneficial to ask students to ponder the following question: What do schoolteachers and summo wrestlers have in common? Carlson, who is the current Undergraduate Program Director for the Department of Economics, has co-authored Freakonomics Instructor’s Guide and Student’s Guide for publisher HarperCollins. The guides are teaching companions for the New York Times Bestseller Freakonomics written by University of Chicago economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonomics is the study of how economic incentives structure human behavior and everyday realities.
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| Dr. David Williams | For as long as he can remember, David Williams, Associate Professor of Parasitology, has been interested in science, but after living in West Africa for three years with the Peace Corps, he became particularly fascinated with the possibility of combining his interests in biochemistry and the field of tropical medicine. Countries in West Africa are severely infected with a parasitic disease known as schistosomiasis. This disease infects 280 million people in 75 countries throughout the world, with 280,000 people dying from this disease every year. “Having lived in West Africa from 1980-1983, I could have become infected with schisto, and at that time there was only one treatment—a drug, developed in 1917, that had to be taken intravenously and resulted in the death of 10% of its recipients,” thus, the inspiration for Williams’ current research to discover and develop new drugs that will provide other forms of treatment for schistosomiasis or even a vaccine.
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