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Volume 3, Issue 29: April 23, 2007
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Tak Cheung, Janice Neuleib, and Dean Olson at Reception
| On April 18, Dean Olson presented the annual College of Arts and Sciences Spring Address in the Old Main Room. Nancy Lind, Chair of the College Council, welcomed those in attendance and provided an introduction of the Dean. During his address, Dean Olson reported on the state of the College and unveiled new initiatives. “The state of the college is strong, healthy, and growing stronger every day,” said Dean Olson. “We are continuing to find ways to enhance and expand the faculty and staff support programs initiated over the last three years.” To read the full text of the address and view the PowerPoint that accompanied the address, or listen to an audio recording of the address, visit: http://www.cas.ilstu.edu/office/speech.shtm . Click Read More for more photos.
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Volume 3, Issue 29: April 23, 2007
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Shawn Hitchcock and Craig McLauchlan
| At the 2007 Spring Address last week, the Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Civil Service Member, Outstanding Administrative Professional, Outstanding Teaching, and Outstanding Scholarly Achievement were announced. In all, ten individuals from the College were honored across the four categories. “We are fortunate to have many talented, dedicated faculty and staff in the College,” said Dean Olson. “The quality of nominees for this year’s awards was stellar, and all of us in the College of Arts and Sciences applaud their accomplishments.” Mark Hill was honored with the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Civil Service Member. He is the Chief Broadcast Engineer for the College’s two award-winning radio stations—WGLT and WZND—and is responsible for keeping these two stations on the air without interruption. “He so exemplifies dedication to ISU,” said Dean Olson, “That upon arriving at the hospital after a very serious accident, he insisted on first calling his wife in order to explain how some of his unfinished projects might be completed in his absence.” Click Read More for more photos.
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Volume 3, Issue 29: April 23, 2007
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A Pirahã Village Woman | The April edition of the prestigious magazine The New Yorker includes a lengthy article detailing the research of Professor Dan Everett, Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and last week's NPR Weekend Edition aired a detailed story on the same research. Everett has devoted much of his linguistic studies to the language of a remote Amazonian tribe called the Pirahã. His research throws into question assumptions about how humans acquire language that have been commonly accepted by scholars for over half a century. As a result, linguistics scholars throughout the world are engaging in heated debate over Everett's findings. In order to provide a forum for the debate, Everett is organizing a scholarly conference to be held at ISU during the last week of April. Eminent scholars from around the world will attend, some coming from as far as Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, and Great Britain. The conference is cosponsored by Illinois State University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropolgy in Leipzig, Germany.
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Volume 3, Issue 29: April 23, 2007
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Dolores Huerta | Activist Dolores Huerta will visit Illinois State University and will present “Civil Rights and Social Activism: Sharing a Lifetime of Experience” on Thursday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. in 138 Schroeder Hall and “Feminism and Social Activism – Saving the Future with Gender Balance” on Friday, April 27, at 1 p.m. in the University Galleries. Huerta is a Feminist Majority Foundation board member, secretary-treasurer emerita of the United Farm Workers of America and a member of the National Women’s Hall of Fame. She was named one of three Ms. Magazine’s Women of the Year in 1998 and one of the Ladies Home Journal’s 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century and received the U.S. Presidential Eleanor D. Roosevelt Human Rights Award from President Bill Clinton.
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Volume 3, Issue 29: April 23, 2007
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Diane Urey
| A native Oregonian, Distinguished Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Diane Urey spent much of her early years camping, fishing, downhill skiing, and cultivating amateur archaeology. She entered the University of Oregon planning to major in archaeology or math. A summer of study at the University of Madrid and European travel after her first year convinced her to major in Romance Languages in order to pursue her increasing passion for Spanish literature and to return often to Europe. After receiving her BA in Romance Languages from the University of Oregon, she earned her MA and PhD at The Johns Hopkins University and came to Illinois State University in 1981. She served as Chair of the Foreign Languages Department (currently the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) from 1987 to 1990 and was named Distinguished Professor in 1998. The primary focus of Professor Urey’s scholarship is Spanish literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly the work of Galdos, Spain's most renowned novelist after Cervantes.
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