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Sam Catanzaro
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The College is moving toward the end of its current five-year strategic plan (2005-2010), so Dean Olson has appointed Executive Associate Dean Sam Catanzaro to chair a task force charged with producing a new five-year plan. Following the precedent begun over four years ago, the College will assemble a committee of broad representation of all the College’s many constituencies. This month, there will be elections for faculty, staff, and student representatives. Recently, the Council of Chairs elected chair representatives, and the Emeritus Faculty Advisory Board elected its own representative. A Community Advisory Board member has been appointed, and the Chicago Advisory Board will elect an alumni representative. “Over four years ago, our faculty and staff embarked on a serious and meaningful strategic planning process, and the plan they created has guided our incredible growth and progress in the intervening years,” said Dean Olson. “Incredibly, it is now time to embark on a process that will produce our next five-year plan. I am very excited about this process, and I predict many great achievements for our truly great faculty and staff.” The planning will build on the success of the current plan and guide the College in achieving its collective goals over the coming years.
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David L. Williams
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Dr. David L. Williams, Associate Professor at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, will deliver the Fall 2008 College of Arts and Sciences Lecture,“Not Neglecting Neglected Diseases: Efforts to Identify New Drugs for the Treatment of Schistosomiasis” on Tuesday, October 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Old Main Room of the Bone Student Center. His research focuses on the biochemistry and molecular biology of Schistosoma mansoni, a causative agent of schistosomiasis (also known as snail fever), an important, neglected tropical disease. The disease affects more than 200 million people and causes more than 250,000 deaths annually in over 70 countries. The widespread use of a single drug, praziquantel, for the treatment of schistosomiasis has raised concerns about the possible evolution of drug resistant parasites. Much of Dr. Williams’ work focuses on the role of research in the development of new drugs for the treatment of schistosomiasis.
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Jorge Chapa
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Jorge Chapa of the University of Illinois will give a lecture entitled “Apple Pie & Enchiladas” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 15 in the Old Main Room of ISU’s Bone Student Center. The lecture is sponsored by Diversity Advocacy and the Latin American and Latino Studies program, and is free and open to the public. Chapa, Director of the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society at the University of Illinois, will describe and assess the current U.S. system of undocumented immigration. He will also discuss the role of employers in encouraging immigration, recent Latino immigration to the rural Midwest, racialized violence against “Mexican” immigrants, and dimensions of current immigration enforcement and reform.
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| Jae Meen Baek |
Jae Meen Baek joins the ISU faculty as an assistant professor of mathematics. Baek holds a PhD from Arizona State University, where she also taught courses in mathematics education for several years. In addition, she also developed several courses include early algebraic reasoning, children’s multiplicative reasoning, and rational numbers and proportions. Baek is involved in a number of professional projects to improve teacher quality and increase pedagogical content knowledge of arithmetic and algebra. She served as the principal investigator for many analysis projects investigating Korean school systems.
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Willard Bohn
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature Willard Bohn was a Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at Durham University in northeast England, spending January, February, and March of this year at the university. Every semester, The Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University hosts ten scholars from the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. The theme for 2007-2008 was “modeling,” and Bohn submitted a proposal to work on visual poetry. Upon acceptance, the Institute furnished airfare to the university, honorarium, housing for Bohn and his wife, and an office located on the Palace Green. Each Fellow was invited to present a public lecture. Bohn’s lecture was titled “Visual Poetry in France after Apollinaire,” hosted by Hatfield College. Additionally, Bohn was invited by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures to give a lecture titled “The Birth of Modern Visual Poetry.”
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ISU Speech Team
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The ISU speech and debate teams launched their seasons last month with wins across the midwest. The debate team participated in its first competition the weekend of September 19-22 at the University of Northern Iowa. The ISU team won the tournament with an overall record of 7-1, which included unanimous decisions in both the semifinals and the finals. The team finished with a 55% overall winning percentage. This year the students are debating about United States federal government support for agricultural programs.
The speech team’s first competition of the season was held at Tennessee State University, where ISU earned third place overall. The team claimed its first victory of the season at a later competition at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.The team has 35 members and is part of the ISU Foresics Union, the oldest and most successful registered student organization on campus. The program is nationally ranked and competes at weekend tournaments around the country in public speaking and oral interpretation events. To obtain general information about the program or information about participating on the Illinois State debate team or speech team, contact Dr. Joseph Zompetti at jpzompe@ilstu.edu
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Amanda (Burke) Wesselmann
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Amanda (Burke) Wesselmann, a Department of Sociology and Anthropology alumna (BS 2001, MS 2004) is currently the Associate Director of the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum in Crawfordsville, Indiana. On October 7, 2008, the museum will receive the National Medal for Museum and Library Service at a White House Ceremony. First Lady Laura Bush will present the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum with the 2008 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation's highest honor for museums and libraries. Each year, the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), in coordination with the White House, presents the National Medal to five museums and five libraries that have helped make their communities better places to live. Each winning institution also receives a $10,000 award.
Amanda received her BS in Anthropology and her MS in Historical Archaeology (James Skibo, Chair) and, according to Amanda, her current position in the museum, “is my dream job and the reason that I got the master's in Historical Archaeology.”
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