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Governor Pat Quinn at ISU Founders Day Convocation
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College faculty, students, staff, and alumni participated in events throughout the day on February 19 in celebration of ISU’s Founders Day. One of the day's highlights was an appearance by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn at the afternoon Founders Day Convocation. After being welcomed to the podium by President Bowman, Governor Quinn told the audience that he was pleased to be able to be present for the celebration of ISU’s 152nd year of existence. Noting that there are a number of serious issues currently facing the state of Illinois, the governor said, “We are all in this together.” Other events taking place on Thursday were the Old Main Bell Ringing ceremony and an employee recognition reception, where employees with ten to forty years of service were honored. The day’s festivities concluded with a dinner at the new Alumni Center honoring the recipients of the 2009 ISU Alumni Association Awards. Click Read More for More Photos.
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Diane Smith and Charlie Schlenker
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Charlie Schlenker, award-winning WGLT reporter, and Diane Smith, Department of English, are winners of 2009 Distinguished Service Awards from the Civil Service Council. This is the highest honor a staff member can receive at Illinois State. Recipients are judged on three criteria: work, university, and community contributions. The award is based on significant contributions over a period of time and is not typically given for a single contribution. Recipients, who must have been employed at the university for at least five years, receive a $500 cash award and a plaque.
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Provost Everts, President Bowman, and Professor Dykstra
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President Bowman and Provost Everts joined the Department of Chemistry in in dedicating its new nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) facility on Wednesday. Department Chair Clifford Dykstra welcomed guests to the event, and President Bowman, Provost Everts, and Executive Associate Dean Sam Catanzaro addressed the audience. A reception followed, and guided tours of the new facility were provide so that attendees could view the new NMR equipment and learn more about its functions and uses.
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James E. Payne
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James E. Payne, Professor of Economics and Department Chair, was selected as a Teaching Fellow of the Academy of Economics and Finance at the 36th annual conference of the Academy of Economics and Finance held in Pensacola, Florida this month. The Teaching Fellow Award recognizes outstanding achievements in instruction and student engagement. In addition to his excellence as an instructor, Professor Payne was recognized for his breadth of course coverage, having taught nineteen different courses during his career, and his success with faculty-student research collaborations, which have resulted in eighteen co-authored refereed journal articles.
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| Doris "Tanta" Dungey |
An endowed scholarship fund has been established in the name of Doris “Tanta” Dungey, an ISU alumna who was raised in Bloomington-Normal and became a highly influential financial blogger for Calculated Risk. Dungey died on November 30, 2008 of ovarian cancer. She was 47 years old. The annual scholarship will be awarded to a student who has demonstrated financial need, academic achievement, and a passion for journalism. The fund will also be used to place a memorial bench near Milner Library, commemorating Dungey’s love of reading—she graduated from ISU with a bachelor’s degree in English and Philosophy and earned her Master’s degree in English literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Mary Trouille, Professor of French and Women’s Studies, has just published Wife-Abuse in Eighteenth-Century France with the Voltaire Foundation in the series Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. Recent archival research has focused on the material conditions of marriage in eighteenth-century France, providing new insight into the social and judicial contexts of marital violence. Trouille has built on these findings to write the first book on spousal abuse during this period. Her study explores the interconnections between life and literature by comparing incidents of abuse described by actual victims in letters, diaries, and court testimonies and depictions of such incidents in eighteenth-century French fiction.
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Neil Skaggs
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Neil Skaggs, Professor of Economics, joined the ISU faculty in 1979 and was promoted to Professor in 1996. Professor Skaggs' research specialty is the history of monetary economics and his work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Economics, History of Political Economy, The Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Southern Economic Journal, Public Choice, and as book chapters. He has published numerous articles on the development of British monetary theory and policy in the nineteenth century and currently is working on a monograph that traces the influence of the ideas of Henry Thornton from 1800 up to the present.
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