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Volume 3, Issue 15: December 4, 2006
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Dr. Janice Neuleib | Dr. Janice Neuleib, Professor of English, is this year's recipient of the Illinois State University Outstanding Service Award. This award honors faculty members who have demonstrated a commitment to service as an activity essential to the University mission and to its governance. Dr. Eric Peterson, Assistant Professor of Geology, has been selected for the Illinois State University Service Initiative Award. This award honors faculty members who early in their academic careers demonstrate excellence in service to the University. "I am pleased to be awarded the Service Initiative Award," said Dr. Peterson. "To be recognized by my peers for my work within the University and other organizations is very gratifying." Both of the recipients will be formally recognized at the Founder’s Day celebration on February 15, 2007. "It's nice to be appreciated for work that must be done anyway," said Dr. Neuleib. "We all need to be grateful to one another for gladly serving as well as gladly teaching."
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Volume 3, Issue 15: December 4, 2006
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ISU student admiring "Red Interior" | Five women artists came together to curate an art exhibit entitled, “Shortest Distance Between Two Points.” Although the diversity of concepts is as broad as the backgrounds of the artists, the work connects through the visual solutions that each utilizes. Using two-dimensional organizations of linear elements, all of the work balances between a flattened plane and normative depth. This creates an oscillation of illusionistic structures and space. And beyond the line as simple compositional device, it realizes the chance to become an edge, object, and organizer. The five artists are Katie Creyts, “Red Interior,” Holly DeGrote, “7 for 11 ½,” Diana Gabriel, “Construction Site,” Julia Goos, “Untitled,” and Pamela Shahtaji, “Untitled.” Each of the five women has an extensive background in art. The exhibit is being staged in 233 Rachel Cooper Hall. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and the exhibit will run through January 19, 2007. Click Read More for more photos.
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Volume 3, Issue 15: December 4, 2006
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Dr. Hilary Justice | Cambridge University Press will be the publisher for the Hemingway Letters Project, on which an Illinois State University professor serves as one of the editors. Sandra X. Spanier, Penn State University, is General Editor of the project, “The Complete Letters of Ernest Hemingway.” One volume will be released each year for 12 consecutive years. The first volume will contain letters from Hemingway’s childhood, teen years, and first years in Paris in the 1920s. Each volume will additionally contain the General Editor’s introduction, the volume editor’s introduction for that specific volume, timelines, a Who’s Who for easy reference, annotations and explanatory notes for individual letters. The letters themselves discuss writing, travel, sports, music (popular and classical), art, food, nature, wildlife, politics, reading, business matters, inside jokes (with his friends from Oak Park and River Forest, Illinois), and insightful observations of people, events, and literature. Dr. Hilary Justice, Assistant Professor of English, is currently serving as one of four assistants on Volume 1 and will be one of three co-editors of Volume 2 (1926-1929). “The human elements of Hemingway are a big part of why I’m so compelled by the Project,” stated Dr. Justice, “and why Hemingway continues to be a very popular writer."
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Volume 3, Issue 15: December 4, 2006
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Dr. Martin K. Nickels | Dr. Martin K. Nickels, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, has been selected as the first recipient of the Gabriel W. Lasker Service Award. He will be presented with the award on Friday, March 30, 2007, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This award was established to honor individuals who have an outstanding history of service to the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, its members, and the field of physical anthropology. Nickels was selected as a result of his work as Chair of the Education Committee of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, particularly his development of the annual Teaching Outreach Programs for high school teachers. These programs have provided teachers across the country with valuable information and insight into the teaching of human evolution and variation. “I am to be given this award for work I've done with the Education Committee of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Specifically, for our offering a free half day workshop for local high school teachers in the city in which our association holds its annual meeting,” stated Dr. Nickels. “I am flattered and honored to be the initial recipient of this new award.”
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Volume 3, Issue 15: December 4, 2006
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Dr. Janice Neuleib | Dr. Janice Neuleib, Professor of English, has established a distinguished record of teaching, research, and service over the course of her 36 years at Illinois State University. Neuleib, who spent three years teaching at United Township High School in East Moline, began teaching writing at ISU in 1970. She has served as Director of the Writing Center, Director of the University Center for Learning Assistance, Director of the Writing Program, and is currently Acting Director of English Education. Since 1992, she has also been the Director of the Illinois State Writing Project, which is affiliated with the National Writing Project. In addition, Neuleib is the Executive Secretary of the Illinois Association of Teachers of English, which is housed at ISU, and is the co-editor of its journal. Among the most rewarding aspects of teaching at ISU have been the opportunities to work with students at all levels and to teach a wide range of subjects. When asked what she has valued most about her time at Illinois State, Neuleib responded, “I’m an extremely curious person, and here at ISU there is always something or someone to explore, so my curiosity always has somewhere to go.”
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