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Gregory M. Ferrence
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The Office of the Provost has announced that nine faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences are the winners of three Outstanding University Teacher Awards, two University Teaching Initiative Awards, and four Outstanding University Graduate Student Teaching Awards. Gregory M. Ferrence, Department of Chemistry, and Stephen K. Hunt, School of Communication, are both winners of the Outstanding Teacher Award—Category I, which recognizes tenure track faculty whose teaching accomplishments are exceptionally significant and meritorious among their colleagues across campus. Winners of the Outstanding University Teacher Award have also previously received the College Outstanding Teaching Award. Laura Trendle Polus, also a faculty member in the School of Communication, won the Outstanding University Teacher Award—Category II, which recognizes full or part-time teachers with non-tenure track appointments. Click Read More for More Photos.
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David Williams and Lynn Worsham
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The CAS College Council has announced the selection of the Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecturers: Professor Lynn Worsham, Department of English, and Professor David Williams, Department of Biological Sciences. Worsham is a noted rhetorical and feminist theorist. Williams is a scientist whose research focus is on the human parasite schistosoma mansoni, an agent which triggers the devastating disease known as schistosomiasis or bilharzia. “Being named an Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecturer is one of the highest honors the College can bestow on a faculty member,” said Nancy Lind, Professor of Politics and Government and Chair of the College Council. “The distinction recognizes the high degrees of scholarship and teaching among our colleagues in the College of Arts and Sciences, and it is indeed one of the most competitive of all College awards. All those who are nominated are noteworthy scholar-teachers, and it is a difficult task selecting only two each year.”
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Steve Hunt and Cheri Simonds
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Stephen K. Hunt and Cheri Simonds, faculty members in the School of Communication, are the recipients of the 2008 Stan and Sandy Rives Excellence in Undergraduate Education Award. The award recognizes demonstrated commitment to excellence in undergraduate education by enhancing the quality of the undergraduate experience, and specifically to the first-year experience, through a focus on each student as an individual with unique educational needs and potential. “Cheri and I are proud to work at a university where general education really matters,” said Hunt. “From the School of Communication, through the College office, and higher administration, we have worked with a number of colleagues who care deeply about what students are learning at ISU.”
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Nobuko Adachi, Assistant Professor Anthropology, and James Stanlaw, Professor of Anthropology, have translated, edited, and annotated a new book offering insight into some issues universal to women. I'm Married to your Company! Everyday Voices of Japanese Women, authored by Masako Itoh, offers a unique window into Japanese culture and language. Highlighting the world of the housewives and mothers who are the mainstay of Japanese society, this work tells the stories of ordinary women in their own voices. The volume explores the daily communication of Japanese women and what their words tell us about their relationships and lives in a globablized, postindustrial, yet still often male-dominated Japan. “We hope that students, scholars, and general readers will get a deeper understanding of the conerns of everyday women in Japan, whose voices are often overshadowed by the more exotic stories of feminists, artists, politicians, and other colorful figures,” said Adachi.
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Oguzhan Dincer
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Oguzhan Dincer is a new Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics. He earned his PhD and his MA from the University of Oregon and his BS from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He joined the Illinois State University faculty after spending three years as a Senior Lecturer at Massey University in New Zealand. His research fields are public finance, economic growth and development, and applied econometrics. He is particularly interested in the effects of institutional quality on economic growth, income inequality and poverty.
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