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| President Bowman (center) with Visor family members |
President Al Bowman and representatives from the Board of Trustees joined the ISU community in dedicating the Julia N. Visor Academic Center on Friday, February 20. The Visor Center was formerly known as the University Center for Learning Assistance/Minority Student Academic Center, and was renamed in memory of Julia Visor, a powerful advocate for the center. She acted as a tutor and a mentor and had a particular passion for helping first-generation college students make the transition to college life. Visor was also a faculty member of the English Department, where she taught courses in composition and rhetoric and in African American literature, and served as a mentor and advisor for many graduate students.
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President Bowman (left) and President Emeritus Strand (right) present the Diversity Achievement Award to Ricardo Cortez Cruz
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Professor Ricardo Cortez Cruz, Department of English, is the 2009 recipient of the David Strand Diversity Achievement Award. The Award honors faculty and/or staff members who have made extraordinary contributions to curricula or programs that help Illinois State University respond to its commitment to diversity. It was established by David A. Strand and awarded for the first time in 1995. Cruz received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from ISU and also completed all of his coursework toward a PhD at ISU. He has written a number of books including Straight Outta Compton, as well as nonfiction titles including "Welcome to the Land of Freedom," which has received substantial critical attention. He has also created many experimental and innovative publications in print including rap novels that attempt to expose the realities of life for people who have been negatively impacted by racism and poverty.
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Cecil Giscombe
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Famed poet, essayist and editor Cecil Giscombe, Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley, will read at ISU Wednesday March 4 at 7 p.m. in the CVA Gallery in celebration of his latest book, Prairie Style (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008). Copies of Prairie Style will be available for purchase at the reading (a book signing will briefly follow). Professor Giscombe will then meet with interested students and teachers the following day from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the Publications Unit (307 Fairchild Hall) for an "After-Lunch Coffee Session with Cecil." Giscombe was formerly a member of the faculty in the Department of English at ISU.
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The Institute for Geospatial Analysis and Mapping (GEOMAP) is offering a one-day hands-on workshop, Introduction to GIS & Census Data Mapping, on March 13. Participants will learn how to use US Census Bureau data along with the basic functions of ArcGIS 9.2 for community mapping.
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Richard Sullivan
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Dr. Richard Sullivan, assistant professor of sociology, was a guest on Laura Ingraham's nationally syndicated radio program on Tuesday. During the course of the show, Sullivan expressed his ideas about teens and their permanent attachment to cell phones and text messaging. He stated that every new piece of technology takes time to be absorbed into the culture and social norms governing its use are slower to develop than the technology itself.
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Steve Halle, ISU graduate student in English studies, has published his first book of poetry, Map of the Hydrogen World, (Cracked Slab Books, 2008). The press is devoted to publishing innovative writing. “I would say my personality and mind synchronize with the way poems work, structurally,” Halle said. “Poems can and do make rhetorical leaps, use elements of song and rhythm, and allow writers to tinker with ideas in language while paying great attention to detail, compression, and enstrangement (to use Shklovsky's term).”
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Robert Bradley
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Dr. Robert Bradley joined the ISU faculty in 1982 and became a full professor in the Department of Politics and Government in 2005. He received his BA and MA degrees from the University of Akron and his PhD from the University of Kentucky. He has taught primarily law related courses but also teaches courses dealing with American Government, Campaign Politics, and Teaching Citizenship and Governance. He recently developed the Washington, DC Civic Engagement Study Tour course where he takes a select group of undergraduates to the nation’s capital to get an intense behind-the-scenes look at how and why decisions are made. In his research, Dr. Bradley has primarily focused on judicial behavior, civic engagement, and teaching practices. As part of his research, he communicated directly on several occasions with Chief Justice Rehnquist about internal operations of the Supreme Court, and interviewed Justice O’Connor on her views about opinion writing. More recently, he contributed to an amicus brief to a state supreme court which dealt with an application of a specific forensic technique. The brief was the primary reason why the court reversed a trial court’s imposition of the death penalty.
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CASNews will not be published on March 9. Look for the next issue of the newsletter on Monday, March 16, 2009.
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March 3 - Department of Physics Colloquium, Physics Alumni Lecture Series, "From Physicist to Physician," Adam Hall, Resident, Orthopedic Surgery, Fort Wayne Medical Education Program, 210 Moulton Hall, 3:30 p.m.
March 4 - Office of International Studies Seminar, "Illicit Drugs in a Global Economy," Professor Ralph A. Weisheit, Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice Sciences, East Lounge, First Floor, Bone Student Center, noon to 1 p.m. Free lunch provided.
March 5 – College of Arts and Sciences Awards Ceremony, Old Main Room, Bone Student Center, 3:30 p.m.
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