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Volume 3, Issue 19: February 5, 2007
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Dr. John Dossey | Emeritus Faculty Advisory Board member John Dossey (B.S. ’65; M.S. ’68, Mathematics) has been named the recipient of this year’s Distinguished Alumni Award from Illinois State University. He will be recognized at the Founders Day Convocation on February 15 and then celebrated later that evening at a special banquet. Dossey was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at Illinois State from 1967 until his retirement in 1998 and is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus. During the 1993-94 academic year, he served as the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point. “I have always been proud to say that I went to school at Illinois State University. Its Mathematics Department has always been known as having an excellent teaching faculty and strong mathematics education program,” stated Dossey. “I have constantly encountered people, all over the world, who know of or who have studied at ISU.”
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Volume 3, Issue 19: February 5, 2007
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Dr. Willard Bohn | Distinguished Professor of French and Comparative Literature Willard Bohn has won a Distinguished Research Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Durham in England. “It is a great honor,” said Bohn. “There was heavy competition, and I am delighted to receive this award.” Though he has previously been a Visiting Research Fellow at Cambridge University (2006), Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University (2001), and Fowler Hamilton Visiting Research Fellow at Christ Church College, Oxford University (1999), this will be Bohn’s first visit to Durham.
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Volume 3, Issue 19: February 5, 2007
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Jamie Brown | Mass Communication major Jamie Brown is the recipient of a 2007-2008 Walter Patterson Scholarship from the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) competition. She is currently the Music Director at WZND and is the deejay for the Indie Rock Show, which airs Tuesday nights from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. She also deejays at WZND from 4:00-7:00 p.m. on Wednesdays and is an intern at Magic 100.7 in Bloomington. "Jamie is wonderful," said WZND Faculty Advisor Deb Lesser. "She is exactly what the radio industry needs." The winners of the competition were selected by the BEA Scholarship Committee at its fall meeting in Washington, D.C. The $1,250 scholarships are awarded for the full academic year at a university where at least one department is a BEA member.
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Volume 3, Issue 19: February 5, 2007
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Dr. Julian at the 1953 Commencement | This week, Public Broadcasting's NOVA will air a feature story on one of the great scientists of the 20th Century: ISU's own Dr. Percy L. Julian. A grandson of slaves, this civil rights pioneer helped break new ground in the chemistry of plants and was one of the first African American chemists admitted to the National Academy. Dr. Julian also addressed the 1948 ISU Honors Day Convocation, delivered the 1953 commencement address, served on the Board of Regents from 1967 to 1973, and was granted an honorary LL.D. by ISU in 1974. Today, Julian Hall is named for this accomplished scholar and teacher. “I feel greatly honored to work in a building named for a man who was not only a fine chemist and teacher,” said Dr. Frank Shaw, ISU Professor of Chemistry, “but who was also a distinguished humanitarian.” Julian's story, "Forgotten Genius," will be aired Tuesday, February 6 at 7 p.m. CST on NOVA. For more information about the show, which can be taped for classroom use, go to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/julian (a Teacher's Guide and classroom activities are also available).
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Volume 3, Issue 19: February 5, 2007
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Dr. Rachel Bowden | Dr. Rachel Bowden, Department of Biological Sciences, received her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Indiana University and joined Illinois State faculty in 2003. During the upcoming Founders Day Convocation on February 15th, Bowden will be recognized for receiving both the University Teaching Initiative Award and the University Research Initiative Award. She will also be honored at the CAS Awards Ceremony on February 28th. “It is very fortunate for the Department that she joined the faculty,” said Dr. Tak Cheung, Chair of the Biological Sciences Department. “Her research on sex determination in turtles has thus far uncovered many intriguing aspects on the evolution of sex. She is gong to be an important contributor in our understanding of the biological mechanism of sex determination.”
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