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2009-2010 Bone Scholars
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The 2009-2010 winners of the prestigious Robert G. Bone Scholarship have been announced. The College of Arts and Sciences was very well represented in this year’s competition, with seven of the fourteen winners studying in College of Arts and Science Departments. Each Bone Scholar nominee is required to submit a project which they feel represents their best work so far in their college career; these seven students and their projects clearly exhibit the quality of education in ISU’s College of Arts and Sciences and represent a variety of research, service, and educational work being done in the College.
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Marc Loro and Senator Righter
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The ISU Attorneys Advisory Board honored five outstanding pre-law students during its ninth annual Pre-Law Awards Banquet on April 25. Board Chair Judge Scott Drazewski welcomed students, parents, faculty, staff, and alumni to the event, and Board Secretary Marc Loro introduced the evening's keynote speaker, state Senator Dale Righter. Professor Emeritus of Politics and Government Tom Eimermann announced that the Mock Trial Outstanding Attorney Award has been named for Michael A. “Mick” Hall, an attorney and ISU alumnus, in honor of Mick’s many years of service to the ISU Mock Trial Program. Click Read More for more photos.
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Public radio station WGLT has announced its lineup for the 9th annual GLT Summer Concert on Saturday, June 13. GLT will be kicking things off with the traditional Chicago blues of Nora Jean Bruso, whom the Chicago Sun Times described as “show-stopping.” Bruso was recently named one of the ten great women in Chicago blues. The GLT Summer Concert is free and held on the square in downtown Bloomington at the corner of Jefferson and Center Streets. The music begins at 5:00 p.m. and runs to 10:00 p.m. For more information about WGLT and the Summer Concert, visit www.wglt.org
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Jim Browne, Charlie Schlenker and Willis Kern
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The Radio Television News Directors Association has awarded the WGLT News Department a station-record four regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for broadcast excellence. No station in the region has previously won as many as four awards. Last year, WGLT won its third national Murrow Award. Last month, the Illinois Associated Press announced WGLT had won a record nine first and second place awards, more than any other radio station in the state outside of Chicago. Each regional award competes for national honors to be announced this summer. The regional Murrow awards were presented at the annual Illinois News Broadcasters Association convention in Champaign on April 25.
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Grace Johns
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Grace Johns, Assistant to the Chair of the Department of Physics, received the Agent of Change Award from the American Association of University Women of Illinois (AAUW-IL) at its convention in Decatur on April 25. Johns was presented with the award “for expanding AAUW partnerships and visibility through creative mission-driven programming and outreach.” She has been instrumental in developing partnerships between the American Association of University Women of Bloomington-Normal (AAUW-BN), ISU Physics, ISU’s Expanding Your Horizons Conferences, ISU American Democracy Project, AWIS-HOI and the Boys & Girls Club of Bloomington-Normal, and ISU faculty and staff in general.
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TV-10 Award Winners
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TV-10 students won six awards and two scholarships at the Illinois News Broadcasters Association spring convention on April 25. Seniors Jacob Long and Jeff Wagner won two of the four scholarships INBA offers each year. The $1,300 awards are highly competitive, with applicants from numerous Illinois colleges and universities, as well as from graduate students and occasional high school students. This is the third consecutive year that TV-10 students have won two of the four scholarships offered; Jacob Long is now only the fourth student in INBA’s 54-year history to win in multiple years.
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Chris Franciskovich and Steve Suess
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Steve Suess, News and Sports Operations Director at WZND, Illinois State University’s student-run radio station, has won first place in the “Be a Buckle Buddy” Public Service Announcement (PSA) competition. The competition is sponsored by the Children’s Hospital of Illinois and the Illinois Department of Transportation. Chris Franciskovich, Regional Communications Coordinator for the Children’s Hospital, presented Seuss with the award during a press conference on April 29.
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Rachel Edwards, Joanna Styczen, Becky Straple and Tamara Howard
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Four ISU students—Rachel Edwards, Tamara Howard, Rebecca Straple, and Joanna Styczen—have completed a semester-long internship in the CASNews office. Edwards and Straple completed their assignment as part of the requirement of the undergraduate Publishing Studies emphasis in the English Department. Howard and Styczen, seniors majoring in journalism, participated in fulfillment of the requirements for the School of Communication’s field experience program. Working with Assistant Dean Deborah Fox, who edits CASNews, the four interviewed faculty, staff, and students throughout the College and wrote many of the stories that appeared in CASNews. They also took photographs and mastered a number of computer programs as they produced 16 issues of CASNews containing over 100 stories.
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Following this issue, CASNews will begin its summer schedule of monthly publication, with issues published on the last Monday of June and July. Please look for summer issues of CASNews on June 29 and July 27. Weekly publication will resume with the beginning of fall classes on August 17.
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