Three members of the ISU Foundation Board of Directors toured the College of Arts and Sciences on March 6 as they participated in the Board’s new Directors on Campus program. Eric Burwell, Gary Gemberling, and James Knecht began the day with a tour of the Eckelmann-Taylor Speech and Hearing Clinic provided by Walt Smoski, Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders. They spoke with students working at ISU’s student radio and television stations, WZND and TV-10. Planetarium Director Tom Willmitch presented a program highlighting the wonders of the stars, and tours of laboratories in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry were given by Professor David Williams and Professor Shawn Hitchcock. The group visited the Institute for Geospatial Analysis and Mapping (GEOMAP) housed in the Department of Geography-Geology. The morning concluded with station director Bruce Bergethon escorting the members through ISU’s award-winning public radio station, WGLT, followed by lunch with Vice-President for Advancement Dianne Ashby and members of the college staff. “I appreciate the time the members of the Foundation Board spent with our students, faculty, and staff,” said Dean Olson.

Julie Jung, associate professor in the Department of English, has been a committed and highly effective teacher since joining the ISU faculty in 1999. As an assistant professor, she was awarded the University's Teaching Initiative Award, and her teaching has continued to develop in range and impact. This year she was named an Outstanding College Teacher. She is a scholar of rhetoric and composition studies, and in recent years has received national recognition and acclaim for her work. Her book, Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist  Pedagogy, and Multigenre Texts, received the W. Ross Winterowd Award in 2005 for the most outstanding book in composition theory. She serves as associate editor of JAC, a quarterly journal for the interdisciplinary study of rhetoric, writing, multiple literacies, and politics.