The School of Communication will celebrate Communication Week 2009 from Saturday, April 4 through Thursday, April 9. The week's events will include sixteen panel discussions, seven cultural and social events, and three keynote speakers. Dr. Larry W. Long, executive director of the School of Communication, sees the week as an enhancement to communication education for all students. “Since all students are welcome, COM Week adds value to a degree from Illinois State,” said Long. “It supports the classroom and pre-professional experiences students have here in the School of Communication. It is also a week of continuing networking opportunities for alums, professionals, students, and faculty. We are looking forward to celebrating TV-10’s 35th anniversary as well as honoring our best and brightest with awards and scholarships.”
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Algernon Austin
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Dr. Algernon Austin, director of the Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy program at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC, will speak at ISU on Monday, April 6 at 7 p.m. in 242 Schroeder Hall. Sponsored by the Department of History, his talk, “Anti-Black Discrimination in the Age of Obama,” is free and open to the public. He will discuss research on contemporary discrimination and why allegations of a “culture of failure” among the black poor are more stereotype than fact. Austin is the author of Getting It Wrong: How Black Public Intellectuals Are Failing Black America (2006) and Achieving Blackness: Race, Black Nationalism, and Afrocentrism in the Twentieth Century (2006).
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Marilyn Friedman
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Larry May
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The Department of Philosophy will host two prominent contemporary philosophers—Marilyn Friedman and Larry May—at colloquiums in April. Friedman, a professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, will present a paper titled “How to Blame People Responsibly.” May, also a professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, will present a paper titled “Collective and Individual Intent in Genocide Prosecutions.” Friedman will speak on Thursday, April 9 at 4:00 p.m., and May will speak at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, April 10. Both presentations will be in 401 Stevenson Hall. The colloquiums are free and open to the public.
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Ross Kennedy, associate professor in the Department of History, recently published The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America’s Strategy for Peace and Security (Kent State University Press, 2009). Based on extensive research gleaned from public documents, presidential papers, and periodicals, The Will to Believe departs significantly from existing scholarship, which tends to examine only Wilson or only his critics. Kennedy focuses on three competing groups—pacifists, liberal internationalists, and Atlanticists—and how they addressed national security issues during World War I.
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Josh Hallam
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ISU graduate student Josh Hallam recently won first place in the Missouri University of Science and Technology’s Mathematics and Statistics Student Paper Competition. The university will host an awards luncheon for Hallam, his faculty advisor Dr. Fusun Akman, and other winners on Saturday, April 25 at the Rolla, Missouri campus. Hallam’s paper, "Group algebras and their genetic significance," focused on investigating where certain group algebras fit into a hierarchy of algebras used in population genetic models.
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Andre Cherry
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Audrey Williams
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Two broadcasting students, Andre Cherry and Audrey Williams, have won prestigious summer internships. Andre Cherry, a senior broadcast journalism major from Naperville, has won a paid summer internship through the Illinois Broadcaster’s Association’s (IBA) Multicultural Internship Program. Although his exact placement is not yet set, he will likely be at WSCR (The Score) radio in Chicago. The IBA grants between six and eight internships each summer to outstanding broadcasting students throughout the state. Audrey Williams, a junior broadcast journalism major from Trivoli, has won a competitive summer internship at Country Music Television (CMT) in Nashville. She will work in the Music and Events department and will help with the planning and execution of the CMT Awards.
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Graduate Student Amanda Mason and Executive Associate Dean Catanzaro
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The College of Arts and Sciences was well-represented in the 2009 Illinois State Graduate Research Symposium, showcasing student research, scholarship, and creative achievement. The Symposium, which was held on March 27, allowed graduate students to present their research to a large audience in a professional setting through poster displays, multimedia displays, table displays, and oral presentations by students. Several departments also organized “mini-symposia” of oral presentations in conjunction with the Research Symposium. These departments included Geography-Geology, History, and Languages, Literatures and Cultures. “I always enjoy the Graduate Symposium,” said Executive Associate Dean Sam Catanzaro. “It’s a wonderful professional development opportunity for our graduate students, and it highlights the incredible work they are doing under the guidance of our faculty.”
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Stephen Kinzer
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The 17th Illinois State University Conference for Students of Political Science was held at the Bone Student Center on Friday, March 20. The event, organized by Professor Gary Klass of the Department of Politics and Government, provided an opportunity for more than 50 graduate and undergraduate students from different locations throughout the country to participate. These political science students participated in twelve panels on a variety of topics, including United States foreign policy, Muslim societies and politics, and transnational migration. Best papers for graduate and undergraduate students, respectively, will be selected by a panel of faculty and students for 2009 conference awards and publication in the Fall issue of the department's online student journal, Critique.
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