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Volume 3, Issue 18: January 29, 2007
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Dr. Kyle E. Ciani | Dr. Kyle E. Ciani, Department of History, has been named this year’s recipient of the Stan and Sandy Rives Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education. This award recognizes outstanding teaching or any significant contribution to the undergraduate experience, with special attention given to the first-year experience. “It’s no surprise that Kyle Ciani has received this award,” said Dr. Roger Biles, Chair of the Department of History. “She is a terrific teacher whose dedication to her students is legendary in the History Department.”
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Volume 3, Issue 18: January 29, 2007
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Dr. James Skibo | Dr. James Skibo of the Anthropology Department recently published his seventh book, “Bear Cave Hill.” The book takes place in a remote northern Michigan mining town in the year 1968. In this memoir dedicated to his father, Skibo tells the story of an 8-year-old boy named Jimmy, who is struggling to grow up in a rough-and-tumble mining village in remote northern Michigan.
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Volume 3, Issue 18: January 29, 2007
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Eliane Elias | The 5th Annual GLT Jazz Masters Concert, featuring pianist/singer/songwriter Eliane Elias, will be held February 3rd at 8 p.m. Elias is a Brazilian bossa nova artist who started studying music at the age of seven. By the time she was 17, she had taught piano at one of Brazil’s most prestigious schools of music and worked with songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim, one of the most influential figures in bossa nova. Elias has also worked with Brazilian singer/songwriter Toquinho and poet Vinicius de Moraes during the course of her career.
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Volume 3, Issue 18: January 29, 2007
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Dr. Felissa Lashley | Dr. Felissa Lashley, CAS Hall of Fame member and Dean of Rutgers College of Nursing, was one of four panelists in the New Jersey Public Television special, “Remaking American Nursing.” The half-hour program addresses both the nursing shortage and the nursing faculty shortage. “The nursing faculty shortage is important,” Dr. Lashley stated, “because without nursing faculty to teach nursing students, there will be no nurses.” The shortage of nursing faculty can be attributed to the discrepancy in salary difference between nurses in the field and nurses that work for colleges and universities. The special aired on Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 6:30 p.m. and encore broadcasts were aired Sunday, Oct. 22 at 12 noon and Saturday, Nov. 4 at 12 noon. The program can be viewed online at http://www.njn.net/community/specialinterest/health/remakingnursing/ .
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Volume 3, Issue 18: January 29, 2007
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PRSSA Members | Members of the Illinois State University Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) recently won three awards at the National Public Relations Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. The ISU chapter was awarded the first-ever Ethics Advocacy Award. In addition, a team of five members was recognized for a fifth place finish in the National Bateman Campaign Competition, and the student-run firm Progressive Image was recognized for becoming nationally affiliated. Lawrence Vanderwall, President of the Illinois State University Chapter said, “I was and still am stunned that the ISU Chapter of PRSSA was recognized for so many accomplishments. The recognition solidifies our worth of each of our members.” The Chapter received a plaque and a $1,000 dollar award for its accomplishment with ethics advocacy.
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Volume 3, Issue 18: January 29, 2007
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Dr. Dagmar Budikova | Dr. Dagmar Budikova, Department of Geography-Geology, received her Ph.D. in Climatology from the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In addition to her teaching duties, she also serves as the coordinator of the Hydrogeology Graduate Program and the Geographic Information System (GIS) Services here at Illinois State University, as well as the Honors Director of the Climate Specialty Group with the Association of American Geographers. Her major area of research is climatology. Dr. Budikova’s work has contributed to our knowledge of inter-annual and decadal scale climate variability and change in North America. She has also published several papers in Climate Research, The Canadian Geographer, Physical Geography, and The Professional Geographer. “Working at Illinois State University provides me with an opportunity to balance my research interests with teaching and mentoring students,” said Dr. Budikova.
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