Showing posts with label CLAS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CLAS. Show all posts
Thursday, June 04, 2020

Photography students shift focus to capture pandemic moments

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UIS Associate Professor of Communication  Kathy Novak , Ph.D., was only a few weeks into  her COM 407 Photojournalism and Photo Docum...
Monday, December 15, 2008

Computer Science grad student wins 2nd in international contest

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By Courtney Westlake Tejesh Morla , a graduate student in Computer Science , recently won second place in the General Students category of ...
Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Professor finds expression through poetry

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By Courtney Westlake While writing may not be the most lucrative of careers, Dr. Nancy Genevieve Perkins , associate professor of English , ...
Monday, November 03, 2008

English course inspires play-writing for Illinois Issues editor

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By Courtney Westlake It was at an alumni event several years ago when Beverley Scobell , projects editor for Illinois Issues magazi...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Professor fosters education of Latino and immigrant issues

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By Courtney Westlake photo Before Dr. Hinda Seif returned to grad school, she spent a number of years doing social justice work, and much o...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Director of first-year programs passes on love of learning

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By Courtney Westlake video photo In 1981, at the age of 41, Dr. Marcellus Leonard was working in retail and found himself out of a job. He d...
Monday, June 30, 2008

Professor spurs academic examination of Bob Dylan

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By Courtney Westlake video College English classes typically focus on works by Shakespeare, Chaucer, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and other ...
Friday, May 02, 2008

Campus guest discusses Creole culture

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By Courtney Westlake video UIS Music hosted guest Dr. Sybil Kein , Creole scholar and composer on Friday, May 2. Kein presented a public le...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Earth Day presenter encourages action for sustainable Future

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By Courtney Westlake video UIS celebrated Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22 with a presentation on "Education and Action for a Sustainabl...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008

UIS celebrates Health Awareness Day

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By Courtney Westlake video The campus community was able to get their health in check on Wednesday, April 2 during Health Awareness Day at ...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Online course receives Humane Society award

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By Courtney Westlake WATCH THE COURSE INTRODUCTION> Throughout history, human beings have defined our humanity primarily in reference to ...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

Graduate student begins novel research with award

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By Courtney Westlake video As if balancing graduate level class work, a teaching assistantship and raising her five-year-old daughter isn’t ...
Monday, February 18, 2008

Professor notes importance of women in history

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By Courtney Westlake video Though there weren't many women in the field, Deborah McGregor decided that she would get her Ph.D. in histo...
Thursday, February 14, 2008

The Prairie Star takes over the radio

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By Courtney Westlake video The brightly shining Prairie Star became radio-active today. With support from the UIS Communication Department ...
Thursday, February 07, 2008

Science continues to fascinate professor

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By Courtney Westlake video Dr. John Martin jokes that, like most children, he became fascinated with outer space when he was four years old...
Monday, January 28, 2008

Couple takes the theatre program by storm

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By Courtney Westlake video Having offices down the hall from each other is no doubt the closest Missy and Eric Thibodeaux-Thompson have eve...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Professor shares philosophical concepts within political science

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By Courtney Westlake video Dr. Richard Gilman-Opalsky was originally interested in philosophy as a career field and obtained both his bache...
Monday, January 07, 2008

Mims has seen tremendous growth in computer science

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By Courtney Westlake photo video Dr. Ted Mims first started out his career in computer science working with paper tape, and then punched ca...
Thursday, January 03, 2008

Wheeler Sees Dedication from Students in PAR Program

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By Courtney Westlake video Charles Wheeler has his lack of baseball skills to thank for his journalism career. "When I tried out for t...
Friday, November 09, 2007

Internationally-known Astronomers Encourage the Sciences at UIS

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By Courtney Westlake video Dr. Roberta Humphreys has high hopes for the future of women in the sciences and encourages women to pursue their...