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Stephen Perry
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Dr. Stephen Perry, School of Communication, was re-elected to a second three-year term as Editor of Mass Communication and Society, a well-known quarterly research journal, at the recent annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. His election is especially impressive as editors are permitted only one re-election and no previous editor has ever served two full terms. Additionally, Mass Communication and Society was recently accepted into the ISI Web of Knowledge database, which recognizes high impact journals and provides exposure and usage data. “To be included in this database is an honor within itself,” stated Dr. Perry, “because only 10% of journals are in it.”
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Jonathan Druker, Associate Professor of Italian, is the author of a new book, Primo Levi and Humanism after Auschwitz: Posthumanist Reflections (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). According to the international critical consensus, Holocaust writer Primo Levi experienced and interpreted Auschwitz through the lens of the Enlightenment and secular humanism. Levi, a Holocaust survivor, spent nearly a year in the Auschwitz concentration camp before being liberated by the Russian Army. This book reassesses Levi’s memoirs and essays in light of the posthumanist theories of Adorno, Levinas, Lyotard, and Foucault, four major thinkers that find causal links between certain Enlightenment ideas and the Nazi genocide.
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Daughters of the Stars, a show focusing on legends about the night sky as told by Native Americans from Alaska to Mexico, is being featured through November 21 at the Illinois State University Planetarium. Show times are Friday evenings at 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 2 p.m. There will be no shows on October 23 and 24. Admission is $4 for adults, $3 for children ages 5-12 and seniors, and $2 for children ages 3-4.
The Planetarium is located at the eastern end of Felmley Hall of Science near the intersection of School St. and College Ave. in Normal. Call the Planetarium’s Skyline at (309) 438-5007 or visit www.phy.ilstu.edu/planet.html for more information.
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2009 Noyce Scholarship Recipients with Dr. Hunter
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Eleven students were honored as recipients of prestigious Robert Noyce Teacher Program Scholarships at a banquet in the Brown Ballroom on September 19. The program seeks to encourage students majoring in chemistry, mathematics, and biological sciences to become K-12 teachers in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). Illinois State University has partnered with the CPS to further this initiative. The Noyce Program, funded by the National Science Foundation, provides a minimum of $10,000 a year, in addition to which ISU is waiving tuition and most fees. The university is also providing a $5,000 stipend for students who hold a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, chemistry, or biology and are changing their careers to become teachers. As recipients of this award, they commit to teaching for two years in a CPS upon the successful completion of their teacher certification through ISU.
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Left to right: Joe Cozza, Andrew John, Breck Jones, Stephanie Donjon, Clayton Sanders, and Graduate Assistant Mike Storr
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The Illinois State University speech team had a successful season opener on September 12 at the University of Indianapolis in Indianapolis, Indiana. The team finished fourth overall after a tough day of competition. Senior Clayton Sanders (Belleville) and junior, Joe Cozza (Downers Grove) earned top honors for their work. Sanders took first place in Program Oral Interpretation and third in Dramatic Interpretation, while Cozza won first place in Rhetorical Criticism and third in After Dinner Speaking. Senior Stephanie Donjon (Waterloo), junior Breck Jones (Harrisburg) and freshman Andrew John (Austin, TX) took home trophies in Persuasion, Impromptu, and Rhetorical Criticism, respectively.
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Deneca Winfrey joins Illinois State University as a new assistant professor of social work. She earned a doctorate and a master's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Winfrey also earned a master’s degree in education from the University of Illinois at Chicago and bachelor's degree in social work from Jackson State University. She was an instructor in the Educational Psychology Department and Research Team Leader for the Summer Research Opportunity Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Winfrey is affiliated with the American Educational Research Association and the University Council for Educational Administration. She has conducted individual and group counseling, interactive workshop presentations and has done consulting on least restrictive environment strategies. In her free time, she enjoys watching movies, traveling, and spending time with her family, sorority sisters, and bichon frise.
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