“Celebrating the History of Psychology at ISNU/ISU” is the focus of the Department of Psychology’s annual Alumni Day, which it will celebrate on October 16 as part of Illinois State University’s Homecoming celebration. The department will present a History of Psychology Colloquium from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Speaker’s Corner in Milner Library. Dr. Scott Jordan, Interim Chair of the department, will open the colloquium; and President Al Bowman will provide welcoming remarks. Dr. David Barone, psychology professor, and Dr. James Johnson, psychology professor emeritus, will present historical highlights of the department’s development and growth. Dr. John Freed, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, is the colloquium speaker. His presentation is titled, “DeGarmo, Herbartianism, and the Liberal Arts University of 1966.”
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Adlai Stevenson III
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Adlai Stevenson III will discuss The Black Book: American Politics as We Knew It for 5 Generations, Lessons from the American Past, at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, October 7 at Milner Library. Admission is free and open to the public. There will be a book signing following the presentation. The Black Book began about 150 years ago as a brown, loose-leaf binder created by Stevenson's great-grandfather, Adlai Stevenson I (1836-1914), to collect stories, sayings and anecdotes. Stevenson will discuss the book’s origin and evolution in his family.
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| Joan with Sula and Chief |
Joan Brehm, Associate Professor of Sociology, has a special passion for teaching about the complex relationship between humans and the environment. This love extends outside of the classroom and continues with Joan’s dedication to volunteering as a Search and Rescue K-9 Handler. This important work gives people the opportunity to create a special bond with their dogs and gain a better awareness of the environment. Joan and Chief, a Redbone Coonhound/Lab cross, began search and rescue training in 1997. Destined for the shelter, Chief was rescued by Joan and they began a life together as search and rescue partners. Joan spent her first two years training with Missoula County Search and Rescue and Clarkfork Bitterroot Search Dogs in Montana. In 1999, she moved to Logan, Utah and continued working with Weber County Search and Rescue and American Search Dogs. Chief was trained in area search, avalanche, land cadaver, and water recovery, finally retiring from search work at 12 years old in 2009. In 2005 she started to train Sula, a female Redbone Coonhound. Sula is now certified in trailing, land cadaver, and water recovery with the International Police Work Dog Association.
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| Sarah Hochstetler |
Sarah Hochstetler, Assistant Professor of English, has been named a distinguished alumna in residence by the English Department at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. On October 16, she will visit with current students and faculty to share her story of success. Dr. Hochstetler graduated from Grand Valley with a BA in English. She went on to teach in middle school and high school before receiving her PhD in English Education from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Dr. Hochstetler, who teaches courses in English Education methods in the English department, said that “...working in the writing center at Grand Valley was a transformative experience for me because the director encouraged undergraduates to do research and report that research at national conferences.” These experiences have also helped shaped her own research agenda, which focuses on how pre-service students shape their identities as teachers and how teacher inquiry can help maintain that identity once these students move into the classroom.
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Brendan Banaszak and Melissa Block
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Melissa Block, co-host of NPR’s All Things Considered®, will be the featured speaker at WGLT's Radio Faces dinner on Friday, November 6 at the Doubletree Hotel and Conference Center in Bloomington. All Things Considered® is one of the most popular news programs in America, presenting breaking news to more than 12 million people on over 600 radio stations each week. Since its debut in 1971 it has been a leader and innovator in broadcast journalism. Block, along with special guest Brendan Banaszak, Illinois State University alumnus and national producer of All Things Considered®, will discuss traditional radio journalism in this age of instant messaging, Twitter, Facebook, and blogging.
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| Cemetery Walk Particpants |
Todd Wineburner, an alumnus of the Department of English, is portraying Illinois State University Founder Jesse Fell in the McLean County Museum of History’s annual Cemetery Voices from the Past Discovery Walk. In celebration of the 200th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's birth, this year’s walk focuses on persons with connections to Lincoln. Persons portrayed this year include Bloomington resident David Davis, who supported Lincoln in his campaign for President; Simon Malone, a Mississippi slave who settled in Normal; and Alpheus Holden Pike, who was raised in McLean County and served in the Civil War.
The event will be held at the Evergreen Cemetery in Bloomington-Normal on October 10 and 11 at 11 a.m. and again at 2 p.m. The cost is $12 general admission, $10 for museum members, and $4 for students with ID. Tickets are available at the museum, the Garlic Press, and the cemetery. Purchasing tickets in advance is recommended. For more information, visit http://www.mchistory.org/mcmh_prog_cemwalk06.html
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| Duriel Harris |
Duriel E. Harris is a new assistant professor in the English department. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Illinois, her MA from New York University, and her BA from Yale University. Prior to coming to ISU, she was an assistant professor at St. Lawrence University in New York where she taught courses in African American literature and poetry. Harris has research interests in improvisation and black aesthetics, memory and trauma studies, and 18th and 19th century African American literature. Her professional affiliations include the Poetry Society of America and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Harris is a sound artist, poet and performer and a member of Douglas R. Ewart and Inventions free jazz ensemble
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October 6 – School of Biological Sciences BEES Seminar, Ester Dubrovsky, Juliano Lab, “Behavioral Responses of Larval Aedes Mosquitoes to Chemical Cues of Predation: the Role of Food Limitation and Predation Cue Composition,” 121 Science Laboratory Building, 12 noon
October 7 – International Studies Seminar Series, Professor Paul A. Schroeder Rodriguez, Northeastern Illinois University, “The Heresy of Cuban Cinema,” 3rd Floor East Lounge, Bone Student Center, 12 noon to 1 p.m. Free food provided
October 8 – School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Dr. David Kranz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Engineering the Immune System for Improved Targeting of Cancer & Viral Diseases,” 214 Moulton Hall, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
October 9 – Informal Physics Seminar Series, Charlie Schlencker, Radio Station WGLT, “Radio News,” 309 Moulton Hall, 12 noon to 1:00 p.m.
October 9 – Department of Philosophy Colloquium, Dr. Daniel Breyer, ISU, “Knowledge, Credit and Cognitive Agency,” 401A Stevenson Hall, 4:00 p.m.
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