Dr. Kathryn Sampeck is the first from Illinois State University to receive the nearly $1 million award from the British Academy. She will lead a team recentering the study of chocolate with an Indigenous Mezoamerican perspective.
Registration is open to all students enrolled at the University in the spring semester and engaged in scholarship, research, or creative activity under the direction of a faculty mentor.
President Terri Goss Kinzy announced the appointment of Dr. Byron Craig as the chair and faculty fellow for the new subcommittee on LGBTQIA+ Policies and Initiatives within the President’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Dinner, featuring Dr. Yusef Salaam, is sold out.
Illinois State University will hold a Listening Circle on December 2 to help process recent anti-LGBTQIA2+ incidents, including the tragic shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs.
John Blakeman and Myoung Kim, MCN, coauthored “The Lay Public’s Knowledge of the Most Common Acute Coronary Syndrome Symptoms Experienced by Women and Men,” in the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. Willard Bohn, LAN emeritus, published One Hundred Years of Surrealist Poetry: Theory and Practice (Bloomsbury Press). Amelia Buragas, POL, authored the chapter, “Medical Battery” in
The Office of the President is hosting a retirement reception honoring Administrative Assistant to the President Dave Bentlin. The University community is invited to attend.
Honor staff members with nominations for the Strand Diversity Achievement Award, the Environmental Stewardship Award, Team Excellence Award, and distinguished service and leadership awards. Nominations are open until December 9.
The Illinois State University Planetarium will offer its holiday show Season of Light, running weekends from December 2 through December 17.
Distinguished Alum Donald F. McHenry ’57, a native of East St. Louis and a career diplomat, who was a member of President Jimmy Carter’s Cabinet and served as ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations, was the speaker for the Adlai E. Stevenson II Memorial Lecture Series at the Center for the Performing Arts on November 17.
