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Jackie Smith
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Dr. Jackie Smith, Associate Professor of Sociology and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, will deliver the 2009 Hibbert R. Roberts Lecture on Thursday, September 24 at 7 p.m. in the Old Main, Bone Student Center. Her talk, "Past, Present, and Futures of Transnational Global Justice Activism" is free and open to the public. The lecture was established in memory of the late Professor Hibbert R. Roberts and promotes the highest academic standards in teaching, scholarship, public service, and the connections we build among them. The event is sponsored by Illinois State's Department of Politics and Government with support from the Alice and Fannie Fell Trust Fund.
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Craig T. Bouchard
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Dean Payne is pleased to announce the establishment of the Executive in Residence Program for the College of Arts and Sciences. The program will provide an opportunity to showcase the College’s Departments and Schools and for the Executives in Residence to share their professional experiences with faculty, students, and residents of Bloomington-Normal. The first Executive in Residence will be Craig T. Bouchard, President and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Esmark, Inc. He will be touring the College on Friday, September 25 and making a presentation from 11 a.m. to noon in the Bone Student Center. His talk is free and open to the public.
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Filmmaker Almudena Carracedo will be attending the screening of her Emmy Award-winning documentary, Made in L.A., during the 4th annual Bloomington-Normal Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration. This groundbreaking film will be shown at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 15, at the Normal Theatre. Carracedo, director and producer of the film, will be available after the show for discussion and commentary. The documentary is in English and Spanish with bilingual subtitles. This event is free and open to the public.
Following the intimate story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops, Made in L.A. puts a human face on the issues of immigration and immigrant workers' rights. Spanning the course of three years, this powerful film shows each woman’s transformation from the victim to the empowered as their lives are turned upside down by their courageous and public fight for basic labor protections. Carracedo, the film’s director, comments, “If Made in L.A. were to accomplish anything, I would hope that it would provide a deeply human window into this immigrants’ struggle, which is repeated around the world regardless of the country of origin or destiny.” The film has received critical acclaim and international awards, including an Emmy Award, a Henry Hampton Award, and a Special Mention of the jury at the Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain.
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Professor Fred H. Smith, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, recently published The Human Lineage with co-author Professor Matt Cartmill of Boston University. Focusing on the last ten million years of human history, the book uses human biological history and the fossil record to explain scientific issues, principles, methods, and history in paleoanthropology. “This book about paleoanthropology has been written for readers at the scholarly end of the spectrum, especially for students who have already had a beginning course in the subject,” explain Cartmill and Smith. “But we have tried to keep it accessible to any educated reader, because we think it is important in today’s political and cultural environment to make a substantial account of human evolution available to anyone who has serious questions about it.” Its publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, notes, “Written by established leaders in the field, providing depth of expertise on evolutionary theory and anatomy through to functional morphology, this textbook is essential reading for all advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students in biological anthropology.”
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| Craig Gatto |
Professor Craig Gatto, School of Biological Sciences, is the recipient of a $400,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH R21 grant is titled "Role of Sodium pump in nucleoplasmic calcium homeostasis" and it aims to investigate a novel role for the sodium pump. Until now, the sodium pump has been thought to exclusively mediate salt movement between the inside and outside of cells. Dr. Gatto has preliminary data to suggest that the sodium pump may also play a separate intracellular role for salt balance. The NIH R21 mechanism is geared at "exploratory" investigations and thus this possible new role for the sodium pump certainly fits within the goals of this granting mechanism.
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Brian Mautz
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The BEES (Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics) Seminar Series in the School of Biological Sciences will celebrate its thirty years of existence by featuring BEES alumni as speakers throughout the year. The seminars will be held on Tuesdays at noon in room 121 of the Science Laboratory Building. The series, established during the 1979-1980 academic year, is designed to give students the practice and guidance they need before embarking on presenting their research in the broader scientific community. The seminars also provide both both students and faculty the opportunity to learn about each other’s research and to provide constructive criticism in the early stages in the development of a research question. Students then have the benefit of the knowledge of other students and faculty who have expertise both close to their own research interests and from faculty of other sub-disciplines. “Over the years, many of our BEES faculty have been told by other scientists that our students give some of the best oral presentations of any students from around the country,” said Dr. Charles Thompson, Research Professor of Biological Sciences.
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| Donald Luman |
Dr. Donald Luman of the Illinois State Geological Survey at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be the featured speaker at a colloquium sponsored by the Department of Geography-Geology Department on Friday, September 11 at 3:00 p.m. in 209 Felmley Hall. His talk, titled “Illinois from Above and the Ground Level: Images of the Great Depression and the New Deal Era,” is free and open to the public.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted a number of reforms and programs during the New Deal Era of the 1930s. Among them were the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) and the Farm Security Administration (FSA), both managed by the US Department of Agriculture. Both aimed to assist farmers, and both engaged in photographically documenting the land and lives of America during the Great Depression. The FSA photographed people and their lives on the ground, capturing the poignant images that have come to visually define the Depression. During the same time period, the AAA collected first-time nationwide aerial photography in order to gain a large-scale perspective on agricultural land-use. These two photography collections, which have been separated from one another for many decades, will be reunited in this presentation.
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| Robert Bradley |
Professor Robert Bradley, Department of Politics and Government, will provide political commentary on WJBC-AM with R.C. McBride every other Tuesday from 3:40 to 4 p.m. The segment has been unofficially titled “All Things Political.” The program will consist of a live on-air discussion of newsworthy current political events at the local, state, and national levels. Professor Bradley, a familiar voice in the local media, views the show as “an excellent opportunity to politically engage listeners and exercise a further dimension of my civic educator role.” Though the show is currently scheduled for a bi-weekly appearance, it is likely go to a weekly format as the campaign season gets closer.
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| Jun-Hyun Kim |
Jun-Hyun Kim is a new assistant professor in the Chemistry department. He earned his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Houston (UH) and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University (NU). His research interests include the syntheses and analyses of nanomaterials, the development of new organic and biological molecules, and polymer-inorganic nanocomposites. Kim taught Chemical Engineering at KeiMyung University in South Korea, Organic Chemistry at UH, and served as a mentor in Research Experiences for Undergraduates at NU. He is a member of several professional organizations including the American Chemical Society and the American Association for Cancer Research. He also has previous military experience as a lieutenant in South Korea and enjoys playing all kinds of sports including tennis, soccer, baseball, and basketball in his free time.
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