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Joan A. Mullin
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After an extensive national search, the College has appointed Joan A. Mullin as the new chair of the Department of English. Mullin, currently a professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, will assume the post in late summer. Mullin’s recent work examines student and faculty mentoring processes that foster the acquisition of disciplinary knowledge, and emerges from her research and administration in writing centers and writing across the curriculum programs. Collaborations across disciplines have also produced publications on the intersections between the visual and written, the use of peer learning in pharmacy, and, most recently, disciplinary constructions of intellectual property and their relationship to student plagiarism. A research grant with colleagues at the University of London School of the Arts indicates her growing involvement in the communication of research across borders, and she has participated in the construction of writing programs throughout Europe and Turkey.
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John C. Shields
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John C. Shields, Distinguished Professor of English, will deliver the Distinguished Professorship Lecture on Monday, April 28 at 7 p.m. in the Prairie Room of the Bone Student Center. Free and open to the public, his talk, “Notes toward a Thirty-one Year Love Affair,” will center on his ongoing fascination with and study of eighteenth century African-American poet, Phillis Wheatley.
Shields received his PhD in English from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. In 1979, he joined Illinois State University’s English Department faculty. Since then, he has published more than one hundred books and articles, served on three national literary boards, received four NEH Fellowships, an NEH Conference Grant, and a fellowship in Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities. In 2001, Shields published “The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self,” which earned two national awards. His “Phillis Wheatley’s Poetics of Liberation: Backgrounds and Contexts” is due to appear in June.
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Diane Johnston, Sara Riehl, Michael Chambers, Megan Devlin-Petty, and Jennifer McDade
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More than 900 listeners donated $104,590 dollars to public radio station WGLT during the most recent fund raising campaign, which concluded Saturday, April 12. This is the third consecutive fund drive during which GLT surpassed its goal of raising $100,000 in listener contributions. The station also expects an additional $100,000 in financial support from area businesses who participated in the campaign. All of the money raised during this campaign will help pay for programming expenses, including dues to National Public Radio, American Public Media, and Public Radio International as well as costs related to GLT’s local music and award-winning news services.
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Tom Gerschick
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Tom Gerschick, associate professor in the department of sociology and anthropology, has been named the Registered Student Organization Advisor of the Year for his work with ISU Habitat for Humanity. The RSO Advisor of the Year Award was developed to honor those advisors who contribute their time, energy, and dedication to an RSO at ISU. It recognizes that without the support and knowledge of this individual, the accomplishments and advancement of the RSO would not be possible. Gerschick has been the ISU Habitat for Humanity chapter advisor for six years and has been instrumental in the success of the chapter. The ISU chapter has the distinction of being the second largest collegiate chapter in the United States based on the number of houses they have built and the amount of funds raised for building projects. The chapter completed their thirteenth house on April 18.
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Just Plain Data Analysis
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Gary Klass, associate professor of politics and government, has recently published a new book, Just Plain Data Analysis. The book is designed to teach students statistical literacy skills that they can use to evaluate and construct arguments about public affairs issues grounded in numerical evidence. Students will learn to find, interpret, and present commonly used social indicators, the quantitative measures of the performance of societies' institutions. Although critical for careful social science research, these skills are not often covered in either qualitative or quantitative research methods and statistics texts. Clear, concise, and readable, Just Plain Data Analysis will support students' work in a variety of courses, stimulate critical thinking, and be a helpful reference in future careers.
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TV-10 Award Winners
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Students from Illinois State University’s TV-10 News have won two scholarships and five awards from the Illinois News Broadcasters Association. Senior Christy Stelzer and junior Jacob Long won two of the four scholarships INBA offers each year. The $1100 awards are highly competitive, with applicants from nine Illinois colleges and universities. TV-10 students won five awards, including three first places, in the Student-Illinois News Broadcasters Association (S-INBA) competition. First Place in the Outstanding Hard TV Program category went to a TV-10 News Special Report “The 33rd Comes Home.”
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Brian Clark
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Brian K. Clark, professor of physics, is both an experimental and computational physicist. His current research interests include the origin of the genetic code, the role of genetic organization, structure and dynamics in a population's response to evolutionary pressure, and complex systems. One of his principal goals is to improve our understanding of the role various mechanisms that lead to changes in genetic content play in an evolutionary response. Clark is also developing a realistic model of the surface and electronic structure of self-assembled monolayers on roughened metal surfaces.
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April 28 - ISU Distinguished Professorship Lecture, Dr. John Shields, Distinguished Professor of English, “Notes toward a Thirty-One Year Love Affair,” 7 p.m., Prairie Room, Bone Student Center
April 29 - Department of Physics Colloquium, Dr. Craig Gatto, ISU, "Deciphering the Molecular Mechanism of Active Transport via P-type ATPases," 4:00 p.m., 214 Moulton Hall
April 29 - College of Arts and Sciences Spring Lecture, Dr. Ron Fortune, Professor of English, "Scattered Impostures: Writing and the Work of Literary Forgery," 7:30 p.m., Old Main Room, Bone Student Center
May 1 - Department of Biological Sciences Seminar, Charitha Galva, Mockford Fellow, ISU, "AtEB1s Interact with SPR1 and Formins to Link Microtubule Plus Ends and Cell Expansion to the Actin Cytoskeleton in Arabidopsis," 4 p.m. 210 Moulton Hall
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