CAS announces Outstanding Teacher Awards

Photo of Outstanding Teacher Award Recipients Marion Willetts and Craig Cullen

The College of Arts and Sciences has announced the winners of the 2016–2017 Outstanding College Teacher Awards: Professor Craig Cullen, Mathematics Department, and Professor Marion Willetts, Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

Main Street College to present on history of chocolate

image of chocolate from Deposit photos

Exploring a staple of Valentine’s Day, the College of Arts and Sciences’ Main Street College will be presenting “How Chocolate Came to Be: An Ecology of Colonial Knowledge and the Genesis of Taste” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, February 21, in room 118 of the Illinois State University Alumni Center.

CAS announces Outstanding College Researchers

Photo of John Sedbrook, Christopher Breu, Maura Toro-Morn.

The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) has announced the 2016-2017 Outstanding College Researchers: Christopher Breu, Department of English; John Sedbrook, School of Biological Sciences; and Maura Toro-Morn, Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

CAS to hold qualifying 3MT competition January 20

Stevenson Hall

The College of Arts and Sciences will hold its first 3MT competition at 3 p.m. January 20, in Stevenson 101. This will be a qualifying round for the university-level 3MT competition that will take place Thursday, February 23.

Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña to headline symposium on women in arts, November 10

An image of one of artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña's works from www.ceciliavicuna.com.

Chilean poet and visual artist Cecilia Vicuña will be the featured speaker at the symposium “Oscillations of Gender and Genre” at Illinois State University. Vicuña will give a keynote performance/talk at 5 p.m. Thursday, November 10, at the University Galleries in Uptown Normal. The author of more than 20 books of poetry, Vicuña exhibits and