The College of Arts and Sciences Research Proposal Review Committee (RPRC) has announced this year's Outstanding College Researchers: Professor Karen Coats, Department of English; Professor Rajeev K. Goel, Department of Economics; and Professor Cynthia Langrall, Department of Mathematics. Each year, the committee selects one winner from each of the College's three divisions: sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Winners of the award are eligible to be nominated in future years for the Outstanding University Researcher Award. “Selecting this year's Outstanding College Researchers was extremely difficult due to the range and depth of the work being done by all the nominees,” said Associate Dean Ann Beck. “The researchers selected are truly contributing tremendously to the body of knowledge in their fields.”   

ISU's Actuarial Program will host the presidents of three major American professional actuarial organizations on Friday, November 2. The three will participate in a panel presentation at 10 a.m. in Room 366 of the College of Business Building. The presidents are Christopher Carlson, a fellow and president-elect of the Casualty Actuarial Society; Steven Lehmann, a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries as well as an honorary fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and president of the American Academy of Actuaries; and Bruce Shobel, a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries and president of the Society of Actuaries. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Krzysztof Ostaszewski, Actuarial Program Director and Professor of Mathematics, at actuary@IllinoisState.edu or by telephone at (309) 438-7226. Click Read More for More Photos

TV-10 News Director Laura Trendle Polus served as chair and planner for the 2007 Illinois News Broadcasters Association's fall convention. Eight ISU broadcasting students also attended the convention and participated in sessions focusing on broadcast writing, videography, covering hostage situations and more. “Our students and Laura Trendle Polus continue to be the broadcast news model for all Illinois institutions of higher education and for many others across the country,” said Larry Long, Director of the School of Communication. “We run a quality, theory-based program with professional application.” 

Georgia Tsouvala joins ISU as an Assistant Professor of History. She is completing her PhD at the City University of New York.  She specializes in ancient history, literature and epigraphy. Her current research focuses on Plutarch and the history of Greece during the early Empire, Boiotian inscriptions, and ancient gender studies. Before coming to ISU, Professor Tsouvala taught classics courses at Hunter College and history courses at Western Illinois University. She has co-directed study abroad trips to Greece and Rome in the past and she hopes to continue doing so in the future. Professor Tsouvala enjoys a good book, a movie, time spent with family and friends, and travelling whenever possible.