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Jay D. Bergman and David Marx
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Trustee Jay D. Bergman toured the College of Arts and Sciences on Monday, April 6. Through their participation in ISU’s Trustee in Residence program, members of the Board of Trustees spend a day each semester visiting one of the university’s six colleges. Trustee Bergman began the day with a visit to the Department of Geography-Geology facilitated by Dave Malone, Chair, and John Kostelnick, Associate Director of the Institute for Geospatial Analysis and Mapping. Joseph Smaldino, Chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, provided Bergman with a tour of the Eckelmann-Taylor Speech and Hearing Clinic.
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Dr. Geoffrey J. Martin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography at Connecticut State University, will present the 2009 Distinguished Geographer Lecture on Thursday April 16, at 4:00 p.m. in the Circus Room of the Bone Student Center. His lecture, “History of American Geography: 1870-1960,” is sponsored by the Department of Geography-Geology. It is free and open to the public.
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Michael Joyce
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The English Studies Lecture Series will feature Michael Joyce, hypertext and fiction author, innovative digital artist, and co-chair of Vassar College's English department, on Friday, April 17 at 7 p.m. in the University Galleries, Center for the Visual Arts. Joyce’s presentation is titled "Authorship as Re-placement," and in it he will take a meditative look at literary Romanticism, modernist architecture, and music before considering how the internet and cyberspace affect our understanding of authorship and copyright, culminating in a vision of possibility and poetry rather than one of policy, where authorship is reconceived as "a conscious and energizing submission to an echoing life of shifting contexts." The event is free and open to the public.
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Susan Sprecher, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, has co-edited The Encyclopedia of Human Relationships, which will be distributed to college and university libraries across the country this month. Sprecher and Dr. Harry Reis of the University of Rochester began their work in early 2007, first to identify their topics, from A (Abortion) to W (Workplace Relationships), and then to identify and invite authors to contribute. Sprecher and Reis began receiving drafts of entries in the fall of 2007. Much of their work centered on reviewing and editing Encyclopedia entries, often working on one or more entries a day. After months of work, the project was completed in record time, accord to the Sage Publishing Company, which published the volumes.
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Professor Alan Lessoff, Department of History, recently co-authored with Catherine Cocks and Peter Holloran the Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era (Scarecrow Press, 2009). The authors use chronology, essays, bibliography, appendices, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the key events, people, organizations, and ideas of the period to make The Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era one of the most comprehensive and coherent reference works on the Progressive Era. The Progressive Era (1898-1917) was a time of great social, political, and industrial change in the United States.
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| Syed Gohar Taqi Kazimi |
Syed Gohar Taqi Kazimi, a lecturer on the faculty of Pakistan's Sargodha University, is visiting bioinorganic chemistry Professor Frank Shaw’s laboratory for six months to carry out research as a visiting scholar. Kazimi is working toward his PhD, which he is pursuing through the University of Lahore in Pakistan. He is pursuing studies of gold-based anti-arthritic drugs and some of the potential metabolites with sulfur compounds that can react with them in the body. Prescription drugs that are used to treat rheumatoid arthritis in the U.S. use two different gold-based compounds. One, called Auranofin, is a pill taken orally, and the other, called Gold Thiomalate, is injected. On a daily basis, Kazimi uses three different instruments as part of his research. The UV Spectrophotometer allows the operator to run reactions and monitor changes while trying to model metabolism that occurs in the body. The Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer allows chemists to deduce what kind of chemical structure that a compound has. The Mass Spectrometer separates electrically charged compounds with different molecular masses in order to determine what chemicals are in a solution.
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| Undergraduate Student Panel Participants |
The English Department and the Lambda Delta Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta presented the Twelfth Annual Undergraduate English Studies Symposium on March 26. This year’s Symposium featured a joint faculty keynote speech by Dr. Susan Kim and Dr. Aaron Smith and an event celebrating literacy titled “Everybody has a literacy story…tell us yours!” The Symposium began with two student panels, each featuring research in various areas of English Studies, including pedagogy, literary analysis, and gender studies.
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Edward L. Mockford
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Dr. Edward L. Mockford, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, joined the ISU faculty in 1960, was promoted to full professor in 1966, and named Distinguished Professor in 1984. For nearly 50 years, he has actively contributed to scholarship and teaching at ISU. His special interests in systematics and phylogeny of insects, particularly psocids, or bark lice, have made him an invaluable resource for students concerning the onset and evolutionary role of parthenogenesis in psocids. He has collaborated with colleagues at other institutions on the study of parthenogenesis and the recent discovery that bacteria of the genus Wolbachia can produce parthenogenesis in females of ordinarily sexual species of insects, including some psocids.
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