Arts and Letters Updates | April 2022
Idaho High School Students to Use Distance Learning Technology to Access Health Care Services
Direct Communications recently gifted Idaho State $50,000 to support its INCLUDE 2 program’s mission to use distance learning technology to provide telehealth services to Idaho’s high school students. 
 
The INCLUDE program uses video telecommunications to allow high school students to complete dual enrollment college courses in their high schools. The program is now operating in 10 high schools with plans to expand into more. 
William L. King Legacy Endowment
Idaho State University Professor of Philosophy Dr. William L. King, who was largely responsible for the very existence of the philosophy program at ISU, has been recognized by the University and the community with a legacy endowment in his name.
Annual Be A Bengal Award
Virginia Barnett, Academic Advisor and University Studies Specialist, has been recognized as the recipient of the annual Be A Bengal in the category of Hope.
Idaho State University Mourns the Passing of Bruce Loebs
Bruce Loebs, Professor of Rhetoric and American Public Address, and longtime Chair of the Department of Communication, Media, and Persuasion, died on Saturday April 9. 
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institutes
Dr. Liz Moreno Chuquen will be at the University of Pittsburgh to participate in the Institute on Transnational Dialogues in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies.
Dr. Lauren MacDonald will be in New York City to participate in the Institute on 16th-Century Indigenous Mexican Codices.
APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research
Dr. Edward Kammerer, Department of Political Science, has been awarded the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research grant to assist in the development and publication of his book on Teaching LGBTQ Politics.
ISU Impact: Summer Theatre
Join College of Arts and Letters Dean, Kandi Turley-Ames, as she talks about the 2022 summer theater program with Meg Stover, the Promotions Director and Business Manager of the School of Performing Arts. Hear the perspective of ISU theater student, Harmoni Thompson, as she discusses her involvement as stage manager in the production.
Student Highlight
Victor Curiel, an Idaho State University graduate student in history, successfully defended his thesis: Race Riots in Britain. 
 
Curiel plans to continue his education by earning a PhD, specializing in British Imperial History, Diasporas, and Migratory History. 
 
The history department’s faculty is a “powerhouse” of information, according to Curiel. If interested in European or British History, Curiel suggests taking a course with Dr. Datta or Dr. Stover. 
 
“They taught us how to teach,” said Curiel. “It was more than just good GTA positions, it was pedagogical teachings. The program, he said, was “holistic, intense, and worthwhile.”
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