New members of the Graduate Council will be seated for 3-year terms at the September 2022 Graduate Council meeting.
2022 Graduate Council election results
Topic: Academics
Candidate presentations for the new director of scholarly teaching start April 8
Four candidates will interview for the new position, part of a larger plan to reimagine professional development for instructors and to restructure the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology.
RESCHEDULED: African American Studies talk to explore challenges of diversity management, April 22
Sociologist Dr. Cedrick-Michael Simmons will deliver the talk “The Challenges of Diversity Management” at 2 p.m. Friday, April 15, via Zoom.
ISU authors flip book chapters to Open Access
Read about three book chapters written by ISU faculty and are now available to Open Access, thanks to the deal between Milner Library and IGI.
MCN students practice real-life scenarios in virtual reality
Nursing Simulation Lab Director Joanna Willett said the scenarios are designed to give students a space to be brave in the face of an intense situation that simulates those they will experience as working nurses.
Dr. Kathryn Jasper awarded NEH grant
Associate Professor of History Kathryn Jasper will dedicate the National Endowment for the Humanities funds to finishing a book focusing on reforms in the medieval Catholic Church that ultimately sparked civil war.
Opening reception for Food for Thought exhibit, April 19
The exhibit, curated by Associate Professor Archana Shekara, highlights the work of students to bring cultural understanding through food.
Scholarship memorializes anthropologist and ISU Faculty Emeritus Edward B. Jelks
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology lost one of its most talented and influential members in 2021 with Professor Edward B. Jelks’ passing on the evening of December 22. In his fifteen years as a Professor of Anthropology at Illinois State University, Jelks made enormous contributions to the University and to many of the graduates of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, which Jelks started in 1968.
Day in the Life: Future educator takes on role of Gamma Phi Circus president
Jon Fulton, a member of the Gamma Phi Circus, is a co-act captain for the clown act, one of the heads of the publicity committee, and the president of the nation’s oldest collegiate circus. Follow Fulton through a day in his life.
A homegrown love for science: Graduate student researches, promotes use of cover crops
Illinois State graduate student Emily Hansen, who is from three generations of famers, is researching the potential of pennycress as a cover crop.
