2008 COLLEGE of ARTS and SCIENCES ALUMNI HALL OF FAME
Nominations were requested from alumni and friends of SIUE, then the College selected inductees based on pre-determined criteria. Alumni were selected based on outstanding contributions to their profession, community, and/or service to their alma mater. We are pleased to announced the College of Arts and Sciences inaugural members of the SIUE Alumni Hall of Fame:
2008 VAUGHNIE LINDSAY NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD
Dr. Lucian Stone the 2008 Vaughnie Linday New Investigator award. Dr. Stone is an exceptional scholar who has already achieved international recognition for his research on Farid al-Din 'Attar. Dr. Stone came to SIUE in 2005 with an impressive publication record, including a co-edited edition of The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr (2001) to which he contributed a chapter and bibliography. He has published several book chapters and articles in leading publications in the fields of philosophy, intellectual history, and mystical literature.
2008 HOPPE RESEARCH PROFESSOR AWARD
The ninth recipient of the Hoppe Research Professor Award is Dr. Allison Thomason, Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Studies, for her work on ancient Mesopotamian textiles and how they serve in the negotiation of human agency and identity. Professor Thomason's Hoppe award will result in a complete book manuscript about the way that textiles and dress help to create personal and institutional identities in ancient Mesoptomia (roughly the equivalent of modern Iraq). This project continues Professor Thomason's long and active research agenda on objects and identity in ancient Mesopotamia. Whereas her prior research had concentrated on the relationship of Mesopotamian male elites to their material world, this new exploration would converge on two major factors involved in the production and consumption of textiles: gender and class. Professor Thomason hopes that her examination of this topic will bring new understanding to the culture of Mesopotamia--and ultimately to our own modern world of fashion consumption--through new approaches to identity coming from the fields of material culture and dress studies.
2008 ANNETTE AND HENRY BAICH AWARD
Dr. Faith Liebl, Department of Biology, received the 2008 Annette and Henry Baich Award. Faith received her Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the University of Illinois at Chicago where she studied glutamate receptor expression at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction. She went on to do her postdoc examining synaptic patterning of the Drosophila antenna lobe for which she received a NIH Postdoctoral National Research Service Award. Faith is finishing her first year at SIUE. Her lab is interested in learning and memory, specifically the mechanisms that regulate glutamate receptor expression and localization.
TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARDS
The College of Arts & Sciences is very pleased to announce that Dr. Brian Harward, from the Department of Political Science, is the recipient of the 2007-2008 SIUE Teaching Excellence Award. Dr. Harward was selected for his informative, articulate, and engaging style in the classroom, and for his ability to facilitate student discussion.
Dr. Jack Glassman, from the Department of Physics, was the 2007-2008 SIUE Teaching Distinction Award recipient. Dr. Glassman's enthusiasm, passion for the subject, and promotion of critical thinking skills were cited as among his greatest strengths by the selection committee.
Congratulations to two great teachers!
WILLIAM AND MARGARET GOING PROFESSORSHIP
In March 2008 the College of Arts and Sciences announced that the third recipient of the William and Margaret Going Professorship is Dr. David A. Kauzlarich from the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies. Dr. Kauzlarich has had a distinguished career as a sociologist and expands the Going Professorship recipients beyond the humanities to the social sciences. His scholarly record includes three books, some 30 articles (many reprinted in book publications), over 50 presentations at scholarly meetings and, just last year, was an invited speaker at the expert-meeting on supranational criminology at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. Dr. Kauzlarich has been cited in scores of books and articles and his research is respected throughout the United States, the United Kingdom and in Western Europe. In 2005, he received both the “Great Teacher Award” from SIUE’s Alumni Association and the Critical Criminologist of the Year by the American Society of Criminology, Critical Criminology Division.
The William and Margaret Going Professorship is the first endowed professorship for the College. Dr. Going has a strong commitment to faculty, having served as a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature as well as the first Dean of SIUE. He wanted to do something special for faculty. For that reason, the Going Professorship was created to recognize outstanding faculty achievement. The recipient of the Going Professorship will be selected by the Dean upon the recommendation of a committee of College faculty and administrators. In addition to being selected for this great honor, the recipient will receive up to $10,000 added to their regular salary for the year in which they hold the Professorship.
WILLIAM AND MARGARET GOING PROFESSORSHIP - SECOND PUBLIC LECTURE
On February 28, 2008 the second William and Margaret Going Endowed Professorship Public Lecture was delivered by Dr. Margaret A. Simons. The title of Dr. Simons' presentation was the "Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir". The lecture was free and open to the public and was made possible in part by the William and Margaret Going Endowment for the SIUE College of Arts and Sciences. The lecture drew a large audience who enjoyed a lively presentation and question-and-answer session.
