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Ira W. Lieberman
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Ira W. Lieberman will deliver the second annual Hoon Mok Chung Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, February 26 in the Old Main Room of the Bone Student Center. The title of his talk is "The Commercialization of Microfinance Is Here to Stay—Is it an Unmixed Blessing?” Lieberman, an expert in microfinance and global structural adjustment, has had a long, diverse, and distinguished career in the private sector, at the World Bank, and in the not-for-profit sector. For over 30 years, he has advised the leaders of numerous governments, corporations and non-governmental organizations. This event is free and open to the public.
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President Emeritus Watkins, President Bowman, and President Emeritus Strand
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The College of Arts and Sciences participated in numerous events on Thursday as Founders Day marked the conclusion of ISU's year-long sesquicentennial celebration. The day began with a bell-ringing ceremony in the Brown Ballroom. CAS faculty, staff, and students were among the 151 persons who helped the university ring in its 151st year. Bell ringers included Dr. Lloyd Watkins, the 13th President of ISU; Dr. David Strand, the 15th President of ISU; and Dr. Al Bowman, the 17th President of ISU.
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Patricia Franz, Douglas Jennings, and Patricia Foltz
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Three staff members in the College of Arts and Sciences received awards for outstanding service at the Founders Day Convocation on February 14. Patricia Foltz (Department of Psychology) and Patricia Franz (School of Communication) received Outstanding Service Awards from the Civil Service Council, and Douglas Jennings (School of Communication) received a Distinguished Service Award from the Administrative/Professional Council. “I'm as excited about having received this award as I am about having a job that I dearly love,” said Franz. “I would also like to thank everyone who had anything at all to do with my having received this award.” “It is a great honor to receive this award,” added Foltz. “I'm privileged to work among University staff who go the extra mile every day.”
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Stanley R. Ommen
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Trustee Stanley R. Ommen toured the College of Arts and Sciences on Tuesday. Through their participation in ISU’s Trustee in Residence program, members of the Board of Trustees spend a day each semester visiting one of the university’s six colleges. Trustee Ommen began the day with a tour of the Eckelmann-Taylor Speech and Hearing Clinic provided by Joseph Smaldino, Chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. He also spoke with students working at ISU’s student radio and television stations, WZND and TV-10. Director Tom Willmitch presented a portion of the planetarium’s current production, “Northern Lights,” and tours of laboratories in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry were given by Professor David Williams and Professor Shawn Hitchcock. Station Director Bruce Bergethon escorted Trustee Ommen through ISU’s award-winning public radio station, WGLT. The morning ended with a visit to the Department of Geography-Geology, followed by lunch with the college staff. “We are delighted to have an opportunity to share the fine work being done throughout the college with members of the Board of Trustees, and we appreciate the time they spend with us,” said Dean Olson.
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William Philpott
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Bill Philpott, assistant professor in the Department of History, is fascinated by the idea that the ordinary places we inhabit every day can open surprisingly vivid windows onto the past. It is the idea at the heart of his current book project, Vacation Land, which explores how tourist development after 1945 transformed the landscape of the Colorado high country, and with it the environmental values of people living, working, and vacationing there. Philpott is also co-author and co-editor of a forthcoming guide to the historical buildings and built landscapes of Wisconsin. Among his other publications, his first book, a study in nineteenth-century labor history titled The Lessons of Leadville, or, Why the Western Federation of Miners Turned Left, won the LeRoy Hafen Award from the Colorado Historical Society.
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