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Dean Olson
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On April 15, Dean Olson presented the annual College of Arts and Sciences Spring Address in the Old Main Room. Ann Beck, Associate Dean, welcomed those in attendance and provided an introduction of the Dean. “College faculty and staff continue to distinguish themselves nationally and internationally,” Olson noted, “And their efforts are being recognized by their peers and disciplinary organizations far and wide.” 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/addresses.shtml . Click Read More for more photos.
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Ron Fortune
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Ron Fortune, Professor of English, will deliver the spring College of Arts and Sciences Lecture on Tuesday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Old Main Room of the Bone Student Center. His talk, “'Scattered Impostures': Writing and the Work of Literary Forgery,” is free and open to the public. Fortune received his Ph.D. in English from Purdue University in 1977. He served as Associate Director of the Writing Program at The Ohio State University from 1977 until 1981. In 1981, he joined the faculty in the English Department at Illinois State University. In 1992-1993, he served as interim Associate Vice President for Academic Planning and Program Development, and he was the Chair of the English Department from 1993 to 2003. Throughout his career his scholarship and teaching have focused on rhetoric and writing, specifically on both how they are taught and how they are practiced in a variety of circumstances. In recent years, this focus has taken the form of investigations into the relationship between concepts of writing since the Renaissance and textual studies and the relationship between writing and digital technology in the later 20th and early 21st centuries.
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John Sedbrook and Kristin Dykstra
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At the 2008 Spring Address, the Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Civil Service Member, Outstanding Administrative Professional, Outstanding Teaching, and Outstanding Scholarly Achievement were announced. In all, fourteen individuals from the College were honored across the four categories. The winner of the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Civil Service Staff Professional was Patricia L. Franz, School of Communication. Franz was honored for being “an exemplar” of what it is to be “truly outstanding.” Honorable Mention for the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Civil Service Staff was presented to Micaela (Mickey) McCombs, lead staff member in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology. Click Read More for more photos.
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Dean Olson, Charles Vanden Eynden, and George Seelinger
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Over 80 mathematicians and guests from more than twenty colleges and universities participated in the two-day conference “Mathematical Abundance” at ISU (April 18–19). The conference, sponsored jointly by the ISU Department of Mathematics, the ISU College of Arts and Sciences, and the Number Theory Foundation, focused on recent scholarship and research in three distinct areas of mathematics: graph theory, number theory, and design theory. The conference was timed to celebrate ISU Professor Emeritus Charles Vanden Eynden’s 72nd birthday and to honor his lifelong abundant mathematical productivity. Number theory is one of the research areas to which Dr. Vanden Eynden has contributed greatly. In number theory the classical Greek mathematicians called a number abundant when it has so many proper divisors that they add up to more than the number they come from — it happens that the number 72 is an abundant number. Click Read More for more photos.
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Teri Farr-Behnke
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Teri Farr-Behnke, the advisor and assistant to the chair in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, has been selected as the outstanding internship coordinator of the year by the Career Center. Farr-Behnke also serves as undergraduate advisor and as assistant to the chair of the Department. Farr-Behnke was selected for the honor for her creativity, energy, and hard work at developing and facilitating wonderful applied learning experiences for anthropology and sociology students. “Internships are the types of experiences that can be highly instrumental in our graduates being successful in their first job searches once they graduate,” said Diane Zosky, Interim Department Chair. “Many students have reaped the benefits of Teri's hard work in this area of advising.” Farr-Behnke will receive the award at the career center's Employer Advisory Board Meeting on Thursday.
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A.J. Hunter
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Two ISU Broadcasting students have won paid summer internships through the Illinois Broadcasters Association’s Multicultural Internship Program. Seniors A.J. Hunter and Shemeka Smith are two of eight winners selected from colleges and universities around the state. Hunter, a senior journalism major, is in his fourth semester as a sports reporter and anchor/producer at TV-10 News. He will work for eight weeks this summer at WHOI-TV in Peoria. The IBA’s Ken Keller, who interviewed the applicants, said, “A.J. impressed me as a realist... someone who recognizes that he will have to pay some dues before achieving his goal. He should be a tremendous asset to the station and a worthy representative of both IBA and ISU.” Hunter, a Bradley-Bourbonnais native, will graduate in December. Click Read More for more photos.
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Sherrilyn M. Billger
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Sherrilyn M. Billger is an assistant professor of economics whose research focuses on topics in labor economics, education, and econometrics. Her work on single-sex education and on incentive pay for teachers and administrators has been presented before the American Education Finance Association, the Society of Labor Economists, and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. Her research on pay for performance, policy analysis, and economics of education appears in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Labor Research, Industrial Relations, Developments in School Finance, and Applied Economics Letters.
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