tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:42:38 +0000Local excellence, global impacthttp://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/noreply@blogger.com (UIS Web Services)Blogger206125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-528891362485969550Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:16:00 +00002009-11-06T19:42:38.556-06:00universitycollege of public affairs and administrationfacultyUniversity of Illinois Springfield Professor of Political Science Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr. was recently honored during the annual symposium and lecture that bears his name. The event was held on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi.Dr. Holden is the first Wepner Distinguished Professor in Political Science at UIS and is a nationally recognized expert on http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/11/third-annual-dr-matthew-holden-jr.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-3053347351351545458Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:05:00 +00002009-11-06T13:28:05.098-06:00studentsawardsUniversity of Illinois Springfield senior Priyanka Deo will be honored with the Student Laureate Award during a ceremony at the Old State Capitol in Springfield on November 7, 2009. Deo is the only recipient chosen to speak at the ceremony out of a group of more than 50 students.Each year an outstanding senior from each of the four-year degree-granting institutions of higher learning in Illinois http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/11/priyanka-deo-honored-with-student.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-3394872404408784491Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:00:00 +00002009-10-27T11:07:15.876-05:00studentsVideostudent lifeartsThe “Off University Drive Players”, a new student organization on the UIS campus recently held a Halloween makeup workshop to share theatre tricks.“The goal for the Halloween workshop is to create a good cute monster so people can learn how to do this on their own” said member “Lucy Black”.Black says it’s best to practice what you’re going to do in advance, so you know how long it will take and http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/10/students-hold-halloween-makeup-workshop.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-1311736753369941171Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:08:00 +00002009-10-19T11:27:54.257-05:00College of Liberal Arts and SciencesfacultyDr. Stefano Longo, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, will be speaking at an International Day of Climate Action event in Springfield. It will take place on October 24, 2009 at 11:30 a.m. on the Old State Capitol plaza.Springfield, along with others cities in 111 countries, is trying to attract awareness to the severity of the issue of climate change. Dr. Longo will address this from http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/10/environmental-studies-faculty-member-to.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-6607497807692472080Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:44:00 +00002009-10-21T09:14:51.135-05:00VideoCenter for State Policy and LeadershiphistoryfacultyThe University of Illinois Springfield continues its dominance as a leading institution in the study of the life of President Abraham Lincoln. The 2009 Lincoln Legacy Lecture series was held on October 15, 2009 focusing on “Lincoln and the Environment”.Dr. Mark Fiege, associate professor of History at Colorado State University, Ft. Collins talked about how Lincoln’s views on the environment were http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/10/uis-continues-lincoln-legacy.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-4249482505689733732Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:30:00 +00002009-10-09T09:44:21.301-05:00College of Liberal Arts and SciencesfacultyDr. Boria Sax, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UIS, is having his article “The Magic of Animals: English Animal Familiars in the Perspective of Folklore” published in the next issue of The Journal Anthrozoos.In the article he argues that witch trials profoundly changed human-animal relations in England and ultimately the world by demonizing the animal sages, guides, and protectors http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/10/uis-adjunct-assistant-professor-has.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-2166539626980788763Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:16:00 +00002009-10-09T11:38:42.779-05:00College of Business and ManagementfacultyDr. Baker Siddiquee, economics faculty at UIS, was one of the four panelists on the Voice of America (VOA-Bangla)’s hour-long international call in show on the “Prospects of Investment in Bangladesh,” transmitted world-wide on October 8, 2009 from Washington, D.C.The program is recorded in Bengali and can be listened here: http://www.voanews.com/bangla/2009-10-08-voa1.cfm.The other three http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/10/uis-economics-associate-professor.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-2781079722149070397Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:35:00 +00002009-09-25T09:52:28.318-05:00studentsCollege of Liberal Arts and SciencesscienceThe American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has selected Christopher Crockett from the University of Illinois Springfield as a 2009 award recipient of the ASM Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship (ASM-UTF).This fellowship is aimed at highly motivated and competitive students who are interested in a career as an elementary or secondary school science teacher. Students will have the opportunity to http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/09/uis-student-honored-with-undergraduate.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-7692569918509961475Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:09:00 +00002009-09-23T10:24:23.996-05:00universityCollege of Liberal Arts and SciencesfacultyscienceThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development grant to the University of Illinois Springfield.The $216,150 grant will help Assistant Professor of Biology Rebecca Landsberg, Ph.D. continue her research into the region of the brain known as the brain stem, which is involved in regulating sleep, breathing,http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/09/assistant-professor-of-biology-receives.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-2345668418607367433Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:06:00 +00002009-09-23T10:36:04.049-05:00facultyNancy Genevieve Perkins, Associate Professor of English and Past Chair of the English Department, 2003-2005, who publishes and conducts creative readings under her first two names, Nancy Genevieve, gave a poetry reading at the Vachel Lindsay Home in Springfield on Saturday, August 22, 2009.As Poet in the Parlor, she read from Vachel Lindsay's poems and then from her new work, NYX: Sister of http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/09/associate-professor-of-english-poetry.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-735412424350184970Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:41:00 +00002009-09-16T14:51:03.077-05:00public policyfacultyJason Pierceson, Associate Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies and at the University of Illinois Springfield, has published a book, Moral Argument, Religion, and Same-Sex Marriage: Advancing the Public Good, co-edited with Gordon A. Babst (Chapman University) and Emily R. Gill (Bradley University), with Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield.The book presents arguments http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/09/political-science-chair-co-authors-book.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-8375776174986566157Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:47:00 +00002009-09-15T10:59:10.653-05:00VideostaffWUISAfter 35 years leading the newsroom at WUIS-WIPA/Illinois Public Radio News Director Rich Bradley will anchor his last newscast on September 25, 2009.Bradley has been a part of the radio station since the day it went on the air as WSSR in 1975. Bradley is considered the father of the Illinois Public Radio Network, which he created to allow other public radio stations around the state to http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/09/wuiss-rich-bradley-to-anchor-last.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-1135243431277756173Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:37:00 +00002009-09-15T09:15:42.012-05:00College of Business and ManagementfacultyNancy Scannell, Associate Professor in the College of Business and Management, was invited by the Belarus State University (BSU) to deliver a finance seminar. The US Embassy Minsk supported the associated Teaching Assistant Program intended to internationalize BSU's MBA program.The photo to the above features (left to right) three teaching assistants assigned to Nancy's seminar: Vika, Rodion and http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/09/cbm-associate-professor-invited-to.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-5375609409356104542Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:16:00 +00002009-09-11T10:42:54.321-05:00volunteerstudentsVideohistorypublicStudents from the University of Illinois Springfield’s Volunteer and Civic Engagement Center have put together a video in remembrance of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.Student and staff volunteers traveled around the UIS campus asking students what impact 9/11 had on them, where they were when the attacks happened and if they think it united the country.“It’s probably the defining eventhttp://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/09/student-volunteers-create-911-video.htmlbwood8@uis.edu (Blake Wood)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-3289831637779910646Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:41:00 +00002009-09-01T15:59:24.729-05:00studentsVideostudent affairsBy Courtney WestlakeSnacks, comfortable couches, a big-screen television and a caring staff draw students into the Diversity Center – Student Life Building 22 – whether it be for studying, watching a popular TV show with friends or discussing the need for a particular service with a staff member.“The Diversity Center is a space where students can come and be whoever it is they want to be,” said http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/08/diversity-center-helps-campus-celebrate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Courtney Westlake)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-4799295628521056060Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:06:00 +00002009-08-14T10:42:24.778-05:00universityartsfacultyUIS Assistant Professor of Digital Media Liz Murphy Thomas will be presenting at a Visual Anthropology conference titled "Transcultural Montage" at the Moesgaard Museum at the University of Aarhus in Denmark from August 24 through August 26. The presentation will be a discussion of the Abraham Lincoln video from her series titled "Let Us Praise Famous Men." "Let Us Praise Famous Men" is a series http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/08/professor-to-give-presentation-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Courtney Westlake)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-8845590453206722326Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:11:00 +00002009-08-10T09:16:45.977-05:00universityrecreationpublicDr. Clarice Ford, director of the UIS Diversity Center, will be a speaker at the 90th Anniversary Banquet for Calvary Baptist Church and the East Springfield Nehemiah Project for urban renewal. The event will be held August 23 at the Northfield Inn Conference Center at 2 p.m.The Nehemiah Project built 25 affordable home new homes last summer. Thirty more are planned this summer.Banquet tickets http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/08/clarice-ford-will-speak-at-springfield.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Courtney Westlake)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-6520808998356992584Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:26:00 +00002009-08-11T14:57:54.526-05:00VideoCollege of Liberal Arts and SciencesfacultyBy Courtney WestlakeWhen the History Channel decided to produce a series called “Life After People,” Dr. Matt Evans, assistant professor of biology at UIS, was one of the international experts they contacted for the show.“They were hypothetically examining what the world would look like tomorrow, a year from now, a hundred years from now, a thousand years from now, without humans – if humans werehttp://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/07/professor-utilizes-ecology-background.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Courtney Westlake)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-5128311648077165926Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:17:00 +00002009-07-02T12:34:39.121-05:00studentsCollege of Liberal Arts and SciencesawardsalumniGreg Bishop, 2009 graduate of UIS with a degree in Communication, was recently awarded an Illinois Broadcasters Association Silver Dome Award in the category of Medium Market Radio for Best Use of New Media. Bishop is a producer, director and editor at WMAY-AM Radio.The award ceremony, which was sponsored by the Illinois National Guard, was held on July 17 in Peoria. Bishop was one of several http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/07/uis-graduate-receives-award-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Courtney Westlake)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-7330009118674027842Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:32:00 +00002009-07-01T11:37:54.058-05:00College of Business and ManagementfacultybusinessNancy Scannell, Associate Professor in the College of Business and Management, was invited by the President of Chonnam National University (CNU) in South Korea to teach Financial Economics for the University's inaugural "International Summer Semester." CNU's initiative is intended to expose Korean students to international faculty. The photo features the two teaching assistants, Chul-hi and Yourihttp://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/07/professor-teaches-economics-in-south.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Courtney Westlake)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-3694408922918639220Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:10:00 +00002009-06-24T09:11:50.757-05:00College of Liberal Arts and SciencesartsfacultyNancy Genevieve Perkins, Associate Professor of English, read at the Walden Pond Poetry Series on June 21 in celebration of the Summer Solstice. The poets read their works on this longest day of the year to honor and celebrate the beauty of our natural world.This group meets in the tradition of poet Henry David Thoreau, whose work is always read at this venue.The readings were followed by a mealhttp://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/06/english-professor-reads-poetry-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Courtney Westlake)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-7099057783865209048Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:44:00 +00002009-06-03T17:03:53.477-05:00College of Liberal Arts and SciencesartsfacultyNancy Genevieve Perkins, Associate Professor of English and Past Chair of the English Department, presented two papers at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, which met in East Lansing, Michigan, from May 7 to May 9.One of Perkins’ papers was selected to be presented in the MidAmerican Award winner’s panel. The topic of the panel was “More than Regional: http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/06/english-professor-presents-papers-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Courtney Westlake)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-8018750271110725564Tue, 19 May 2009 15:32:00 +00002009-08-11T11:43:46.641-05:00studentsVideouniversityfacultycommencementUIS' 38th Commencement Ceremony was filled with emotional and celebratory moments as hundreds of students received their diplomas on Saturday, May 16, 2009.http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/05/commencement-moments-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Courtney Westlake)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-2438222713465577228Tue, 12 May 2009 14:29:00 +00002009-05-12T09:34:06.478-05:00studentsuniversityartsAt the beginning of May, UIS Forensics participated in the American Readers Theatre Association National Championship Tournament at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California.Hilary Holmes, Niesa Patton and Samarth Rajendra performed an original Readers Theatre titled "Dream On," documenting the development of the American Dream throughout the country’s history. The UIS theatre was one of a http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/05/uis-forensics-participates-in-readers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Courtney Westlake)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10441311.post-1646795670995354659Mon, 11 May 2009 18:30:00 +00002009-08-11T11:54:06.423-05:00Videouniversitystaffstudent affairsBy Courtney WestlakeMore and more college students today are looking to go beyond the borders of their native countries to study abroad, and that has become a positive thing for United States and for UIS.Though facts like the U.S. is one of the most expensive countries in the world when it comes to education can sometimes deter students from other countries from seeking to study here, http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/people/2009/05/new-admissions-counselor-focuses-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Courtney Westlake)