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Bill
Bloemer, Dean of the College of
Liberal Arts and
Sciences welcomes these new faculty members:
Barbara
Burkhardt joins the faculty of the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences in the English Department.
She holds a B.A. in Rhetoric and Music from UIUC,
a Masters in English from SSU, and a Ph.D. in English
from UIUC. Her previous experience includes part time
teaching at UIUC, LLCC and UIS and work with the University
of Illinois Foundation. She was named to the incomplete
list of Excellent Teachers at UIUC. She is the author
of a book on William Maxwell, which was recognized
this summer with the Lincoln Library Writer of the
Year Award in nonfiction.
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Wayne
Gade joins the faculty of the College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences as an assistant professor of Clinical
Laboratory Science. He earned the B.S. in Psychology
and Chemistry at the University of Northern Colorado
and the Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of
Colorado. He has been a certified medical technologist,
a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota,
a senior research scientist for Meridian Diagnostics,
and an assistant professor of Medical Technology at
the University of Wyoming. He is also the author of
more than 25 manuscripts, numerous grants, and research
awards.
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Sharon
Graf, assistant professor of sociology/anthropology
in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will teach
in the new music program. She holds two B.A.'s from
the University of Wyoming -- one in Music with a German
minor and one in Anthropology -- and an M.A. from Kent
State in Ethnomusicology. She earned her Ph.D. in Musicology/Ethnomusicology
at Michigan State, where her dissertation dealt with
"Traditionalization at the National Oldtime Fiddler's
Contest: Politics, Power, and Authenticity." Graf
has performed with the University of Wyoming Chamber
and Symphony orchestras as well as at the National Oldtime
Fiddler's Contest.
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Jennifer
Haytock joins the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
faculty as an assistant professor of English. She earned
the B.A. with honors from Haverford College, and the
M.A and Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina -
Chapel Hill. Her major area of study was 20th-century
American Literature with a minor in the novel and her
dissertation was titled "At Home, At War: American
Domestic Literature and the First World War." The
author of several publications and conference presentations,
she served as senior teaching fellow at UNC-CH and was
one of three selected for teaching excellence. She previously
spent a year as visiting assistant professor at John
Carroll University, Cleveland.
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Mark
Lovik is a visiting instructor of Computer Science.
He holds the bachelor of Music from the University of
Iowa with a minor in Chemistry and the Ph.D. from the
University of Illinois in Analytical Chemistry, where
his dissertation was titled “Quasi Elastic Light
Scattering for a High Voltage Discharge.” He previously
worked at Dickey-John Corporation, developing near IR
instrumentation, and spent three years as an application
software engineer at Bio-Rad Digilab Division, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Returning to Dickey-John as an analytical/chemist
and software engineer, he began teaching part time for
UIS and Lincoln Land Community College and has now returned
to the classroom full time in the College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences.
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Ted
Matula joins UIS as assistant professor of Communication
in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He earned
the B.A. in English Composition and Communication at Dominican
University and the M.S. in Communication from Illinois
State. His Ph.D. is in Communication from The Ohio State
University, where his dissertation was “A Rhetorical
Schema for Studying Popular Music.” He has been a
lecturer in the Institute for Human Communication, California
State University - Monterey Bay and a visiting assistant
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Phil
Paludan, joins the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
as a professor of History. He is a distinguished Civil
War scholar and holds the first Chancellor Naomi B.
Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies. Paludan
earned the B.A. and M.A. at Occidental College and the
Ph.D. at the U of I. He comes to UIS from the University
of Kansas, where he has enjoyed a distinguished career
as a teacher and a scholar. He has also been a Liberal
Arts Fellow in Law and History at Harvard Law School,
and is the author of four books on the Civil War Era.
He received numerous teaching awards in the ’70s,
’80s, and ’90s and was named Distinguished
Lecturer, Western Civilization at UK for 2001-2003.
A more formal and extensive celebration of his career
will be held on November 7 when he will be invested
as UIS’ first distinguished chair.
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Lucia
Vasquez, assistant professor of Biology in the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, earned the B.S. magna cum
laude in Biology at National University of Mexico and
the Ph.D. in Plant Biology at Cornell, where she majored
in Plant Systematics with minors in Evolutionary Biology
and Plant Ecology. She received the first place award
for Best Bachelor’s Thesis in Botany from 1990-93
presented by the National Congress of Botany, Mexico.
She is the author of a monograph on a group of red oaks
endemic to Mexico and Central America. |
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Sue
Weber joins the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
as an assistant professor of Communication. She earned
the B.A. in Speech Communication at Moorhead State University
in Minnesota, the M.A. at Kansas State University, and
the Ph.D. in rhetoric, with a minor in Women’s
Studies, at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation
critiques the rhetoric of the prevalent “Men are
from Mars, Women are From Venus”self-help discourse
in a post-feminist age. She has worked as a speech and
debate coach with high school teams in three states.
While in the Speech Department at Minnesota, she won
the Old Buffalo Award.
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Jingyu
Zhang joins the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
as an assistant professor of Computer Science. He earned
the B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science at Shanghai University
of Technology and the Ph.D. in Computer Science at Texas
A&M. He has been a visiting instructor and postdoctoral
research associate in the Department of Computer Science
at the University of Iowa. His research interests include
parallel algorithms for computing eigenvalues of real
symmetric tridiagonal matrices on multiprocessor supercomputers. |
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