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Volume 3, Issue 27: April 9, 2007
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Joseph Smaldino & Ann Beck
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The Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology has won approval to change its name to the more contemporary Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. “This change not only reflects the nationally recognized name for the discipline, it’s also a better description of the core content in the undergraduate and graduate curricula,” said President Al Bowman, who has been a member of the department since 1978. Audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language and hearing scientists are professionals who evaluate, treat, and conduct research into human communication and its disorders. They provide services to infants, children, adolescents, and adults. “This change will signal the department’s commitment to remaining on the cutting edge of the professions,” said Associate Dean Ann Beck, who is also a member of the department.
The new department name is effective immediately. “This name change comes at a crucial time for the department’s history as it develops its new doctoral program in audiology,” said Dr. Joseph Smaldino, the department’s newly-hired chair. Outgoing department chair Walt Smoski adds that the name change "indicates the broadening of the profession and the broadening of the scope of practice for speech-language pathologists and audiologists."
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Volume 3, Issue 27: April 9, 2007
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Charlie Schlenker & Willis Kern | WGLT has won three first place awards for Journalistic Excellence from the Associated Press—more than any other downstate public radio station, according to Larry Long, Executive Director of the School of Communication. This year's winners are: Charlie Schlenker - Best News Writer; Charlie Schlenker - Best Sports; and Willis Kern - Best Hard News Feature. Schlenker, GLT Assistant News Director, won the honor for his overall news writing for the third time in his career at GLT. Schlenker’s report “Competitive Barbecue” was honored with a first-place award in the Best Sports category. His diverse style of covering sports-related issues has netted Schlenker three other sports awards with stories on archery, yo-yo and skateboarding. Kern, GLT News Director, reported on a faith-based group’s return to a Bloomington hotel to protest against unpaid wages for immigrant workers. His updated story took first place honors in the Hard News Feature category for the second straight year.
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Volume 3, Issue 27: April 9, 2007
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Provost Presley, Rainer Grobe, President Bowman, Dean Olson
| Distinguished Professor Rainer Grobe of the Department of Physics delivered his distinguished professorship lecture, “Destruction of Vacuum and Seeing Through Milk,” on April 4. Grobe, who was named a distinguished professor in 2004, gave an introduction to two entirely different research areas in which computer simulations have had a significant impact. Grobe’s main research interest is the use of computer simulations to investigate a wide variety of areas, including nonlinear chaotic dynamics, optical signal propagation, relativistic atomic interactions, bio-optical imaging in turbid media, and computational quantum field theory. “Rainer has an uncanny ability to approach a new problem, and distill its essence into a tractable model that exposes the heart of the problem” said Richard Martin, Chair of the Department of Physics. For his pioneering contributions to laser science, Grobe became a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2002, a distinction to which only half of one percent of the current members are elected each year. In 2006 he shared the Undergraduate Research Prize with Professor Charles Q. Su, a single award given annually by the American Physical Society to the best physics faculty in the United States.
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Volume 3, Issue 27: April 9, 2007
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David Malone | Dr. David Malone, Department of Geography-Geology, has served as Chair of the department since 2000. He is a structural geologist, some one who is responsible for determining the architecture of the Earth’s crust through geologic mapping. He has conducted field work in Haiti, Illinois, Wisconsin, Wyoming and Alaska. His primary research focuses on trying to understand the origin of and movement along the Heart Mountain Fault in Wyoming’s Absaroka Range. Over the last ten years he has received 30 grants totaling over 1.5 million dollars. In addition, he has won the Illinois State University Outstanding Teacher Award and was the University’s nominee for the CASE Award for Outstanding Teaching. Along with his teaching load, he spends two months in the field working with students. “The most satisfying part of my job is seeing the students that I work with realize their goals and succeed in their careers,” said Malone. “Geology is one of the smallest programs on campus, so I have been fortunate to work with every graduate of our program for the last thirteen years. I hear from at least one of our graduates almost daily, and I am anxious to learn what turn their careers have taken”
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