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Robert Broad
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The Office of the Provost has announced that eight members of the College of Arts and Sciences are the winners of two Outstanding University Teacher Awards, two University Teaching Initiative Awards, and four Outstanding University Graduate Student Teaching Awards. Dr. Robert Broad, Department of English, and Dr. Lisa Szczepura, Department of Chemistry, 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. Click Read More for more photos.
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James V. Koch
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James V. Koch, President Emeritus of Old Dominion University and a former faculty member and chair of the Department of Economics at Illinois State University, will receive an honorary doctoral degree during Illinois State’s Founders Day Convocation on February 19. Koch, currently the Board of Visitors Professor of Economics at Old Dominion, holds a BA from Illinois State and a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University. He currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the ISU Department of Economics.
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Anne M. Semlak
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The Women’s and Gender Studies Program will award the inaugural Anne M. Semlak Memorial Scholarship this year at the Women’s and Gender Studies Symposium to be held on April 3 in the University Galleries. This scholarship fund was established in loving memory of Anne Marie Semlak. Anne grew up and lived her young life in Bloomington-Normal, where she attended Normal Community High School and Illinois State University. At ISU, Anne was very active in the Woman’s Studies Program and graduated with a degree in political science with minors in both Women’s Studies and Peace Studies.
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Dr. Kass Fleisher, Department of English, recently published Talking out of School: Memoir of an Educated Woman (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008). An excerpt of the book has already been published in the December 4 issue of Inside Higher Education and will also be featured in a future edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education.. Steve Tomasula, University of Notre Dame, notes, “Calling this book a feminist critique of higher ed would be to read the book too narrowly given the discussions of class and race. Should be required reading for everyone in academia.”
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Sandra Steingraber
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Two College of Arts and Sciences alumni are the recipients of the ISU Alumni Association's 2009 Alumni Achievement Awards: Dr. David M. Kranz (BS ’75, MS ’76, Biological Science) and Sandra Steingraber (MS ’82, English). Kranz is a professor of biochemistry at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and Steingraber is an environmental writer at Ithaca College in Trumansburg, New York. Click Read More for more photos.
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Krystal Montesdeoca
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Krystal Montesdeoca was recently awarded a $25,000 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to study and carry out community service abroad next year. Montesdeoca, who is a graduate of Illinois State University’s Metcalf and University High lab schools, is a student in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. She is a Spanish major and Japanese minor. She speaks English, Spanish, and Japanese fluently, and is semi-fluent in Portuguese. She has also studied German while at Illinois State.
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Rachel Parish (ISU), Angie Dunk ISU), and Kyler Wilkins (Cornell)
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The ISU Speech Team landed in second place after a commanding performance at this month’s competition co-hosted by Bradley University and the University of Texas on the Bradley campus. Forty-one colleges and universities participated in the tournament, with Illinois State taking top honors over Northwestern, New York University, Ohio University, the University of Nebraska, the University of Wisconsin, and Cornell. Nineteen of the team’s competitors advanced to semifinal and final rounds across the two days.
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Ann Beck
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Dr. Ann Beck, Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, joined the Illinois State University faculty in 1992 as an assistant professor and was promoted to full professor in 2003. During her time at ISU, she has served as Director of the Eckelmann-Taylor Speech and Hearing Clinic, and she currently serves as Senior Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her responsibilities in the College include research support, technology, and facilities. Beck holds a BS and MS from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and earned her PhD from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
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