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Sally E. Parry
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Dr. Sally E. Parry, Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Student Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences, will receive the Administrative/Professional Council’s University Distinguished Service Award during the Founders Day Convocation at 2 p.m. on Thursday, February 19 in the Brown Ballroom. Parry, who joined the ISU staff in 1988, first served as academic advisor and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of English. She was named Associate Dean in 2005. Nominees for the Distinguished University Award are selected on the basis of exemplary job performance, successful relations with other university employees and the general public, and university service outside his or her area of direct job assignment. “Dr. Parry is a talented teacher and administrator,” said Dean Olson. “Her work in coordinating ISU’s general education program directly impacts everyone at ISU, and I am pleased that the Council is honoring her with this award.”
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Lucinda McCray Beier, Professor of History, has published For Their Own Good: The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970 (Ohio State University Press, 2008). Beier examines the connections between working-class health culture and official provision of health services and medical care in three English communities between 1880 and 1970. For Their Own Good is a case study that is based on oral history interviews of laypeople and annual public health reports. The book considers the roles of gender, class, political, economic, and cultural aspects of the mid-twentieth-century shift in responsibility for illness, birth, and death from the domestic sphere to professional authorities.
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Mary Ryder
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Mary Ryder, Department of English, has published an essay titled “Those Two or Three Human Stories: Willa Cather, Classical Myth, and the New World Epic,” in American Women and Classical Myths, edited by Gregory Staley and published by Baylor University Press (2008). According to the Press, the book is a collection of essays exploring the contradictory attitudes women have held in the United States over two centuries. “I was delighted to write on this subject because I have long had an interest in women’s issues in American society,” Ryder said. She is a Distinguished Professor of English Emerita at South Dakota State University, retiring in 2007.
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Former Undergraduate Student Denise Colby Using a Spectrometer
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The Department of Chemistry will host an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, February 18 to celebrate the dedication of its newly-upgraded nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) facility. NMR has had a major impact on the chemical sciences and is considered by many to be the single most important analytical tool for the characterization and study of new compounds. Thanks to a $551,500 Major Research Instrumentation Grant from the National Science Foundation, ISU was able to purchase a new NMR instrument and upgrade its existing 400 MHz instrument. There will be a brief program in the Dr. Sol Shulman Atrium of the Science Laboratory Building at 2:15 p.m., and tours of the facility will be provided. All interested persons are invited to attend.
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The ISU Planetarium
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The Planetarium will present the family program “Larry Cat in Space,” on weekends beginning Friday, February 6 and running through Saturday, May 9. Show times are Fridays at 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. There will be no presentations scheduled for March 6 through March 14. The show follows the inquisitive Larry the Cat as he stows away in his owner’s baggage and becomes the first cat on the moon. Admission to Planetarium shows is $4 for adults, $3 for children ages 5-12 and seniors and $2 for children ages 3-4. “This is a fun and entertaining opportunity for children of all ages to explore space in an engaging way,” Planetarium Director Tom Willmitch said.
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Greg Harris
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ISU alumnus Dr. Greg Harris ’93, public policy officer for KnowledgeWorks Foundation in Cincinnati, Ohio, was appointed to the Cincinnati City Council last month. He has had a successful career in education and public policy and taught for six years at Miami University, where he earned his MA and PhD. “I’m delighted that Greg has received this well-deserved appointment. Greg has been a tremendous asset to KnowledgeWorks’ public policy team and I believe that he will be an excellent public servant,” said KnowledgeWorks Foundation President and CEO Chad P. Wick, in congratulating Harris on his appointment to the Council.
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ISU Debate Team Members
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The Illinois State debate team enjoyed success in a recent tournament hosted by Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. The team advanced to the final round in both the novice and junior varsity divisions. Amanda Ams (Junior, Communication Education) and Justin Lange (Freshman, Biological Sciences) advanced to the finals in the novice division, while Marlon Harris (Freshman, Business) and Scott Siebert (Sophomore, Political Science) advanced to the finals in the junior varisity division. Seniors Alex Berger (Philosophy) and Robert Kosic (Political Science) also notched wins during the competition. Illinois State was the only university at the tournament to advance teams to the final round in multiple divisions. This year the students are debating the United States federal government’s support of agricultural programs.
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Mary Trouille
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Mary Trouille, Professor of French and Women’s Studies, earned her PhD in French literature from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois in 1988. Her research interests range across literature, social history, legal history, and gender studies. Her specialization in eighteenth-century French literature and women’s studies earned her a place on the ISU faculty in 1993. She has taught a wide variety of courses in French language, literature, and culture, often with a focus on gender issues. Twelve years ago, she developed “Perspectives on Gender in the Humanities,” a middle-core course for the General Education program which she has taught regularly since then. She recently published Wife-Abuse in Eighteenth-Century France with the Voltaire Foundation in the series Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. In addition to her book on spousal abuse, Trouille is the author of Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment: Women Writers Read Rousseau (SUNY, 1997) as well as a number of articles on women writers and gender issues in eighteenth-century society.
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