Honors
The American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) will honor the Illinois State University Department of Physics with the “The 5+ Club” award. The award, honoring those institutions that have graduated five or more physics teachers in a year, aims to recognize those who are combating the physics teacher shortage.
Willard Bohn, LAN Emeritus, will become the first English-speaking member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico in Rome. Bohn has been studying Giorgio de Chirico, the inventor of metaphysical art, for more than 40 years.
Presentations
Yoon Jin Ma, FCS, presented Implementation of the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act in the Apparel Industry and Industry Expectations of Newly Graduating College Students in the Fashion Businesses at the International Textile and Apparel Association. She was also the winner of the ESRAB (Educators for Socially Responsible Apparel Business) Research Award.
Patrice Olsen, HIS, presented I Will Return and I Will Be Millions: Vernacular and State-Sponsored Memorials to Argentina’s Desaparecidos at the American Historical Association annual conference in New York City.
Sarah French, Milner Library, presented Brains in Chains: An Examination of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Young Adult Fiction at the Young Adult Literature Symposium in Austin, Texas.
Publications
Roy Magnuson released a new work Innsmouth, Massachusetts – 1927 on the NAXOS CD label. The music, inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s work, was recorded by the Illinois State University Wind Symphony with Dan Belongia conducting.
Barry Blinderman published the essay Everything Must Go: A Remembrance of Martin Wong in Taiping Tianguo: A History of Possible Encounters: Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong in New York.
Kathryn Sampeck, SOA, and Jonathan Thayn, GEO, co-wrote Geographic Information System Modeling of De Soto’s Route from Joara to Chiaha: Archaeology and Anthropology of Southeastern Road Networks in the Sixteenth Century. Sampeck will also be presenting the results of this research this March in Florida as part of the lecture series of the Archaeological Institute of America.
Cynthia Huff, ENG, published Framing Canine Memoirs in a/b:Auto/Biography Studies.
