2000

C. Thomas Ault, for Research
Eileen Glisan, University Professor
Jerry Pickering, for Service

For Research, C. Thomas Ault
In the past eleven years, Dr. C. Thomas Ault has clearly and consistently demonstrated what IUP means by the term “teacher/scholar.”

Dr. Ault’s active professional life includes a Fulbright grant in 1990 and an American Institute of Indian Studies grant in 1996. His work has been published by Theatre Design and Technology and Theatre Survey, both premiere journals in the field, as well as by the 50th Anniversary Edition of Theatre Annual and the Asian Theatre Journal. His book, Gods, Heroes and Villains: The Theater of Rajastan, is in press in New Delhi, India, to be released later this year. He is one of the pioneers in the new science of acoustical archaeology. His work on the Rani Gumpha in northeast India is seminal, in that it has established an almost totally intact acoustical theater of the early first century B.C.

Dr. Ault’s areas of interest also include Italian Renaissance theater through the Baroque period. He has published extensively in this area, and his articles demonstrate that Ferrara, Italy, was the birthplace of modern theater.

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University Professor, Eileen Glisan
Since coming to IUP in 1985, Dr. Eileen W. Glisan has earned a national reputation in the field of foreign language education. She has been repeatedly recognized for her comprehensive achievement, vision, and exemplary service to educating and inspiring foreign language teachers.

Dr. Glisan's articles have appeared in the most prestigious national and international journals, and her textbook, Teacher's Handbook: Contextualized Language Instruction, now in its second edition, is used in methods courses in virtually all undergraduate foreign language programs in the United States. Her intermediate-level, proficiency-based Spanish textbook, Enlaces, also in its second edition, incorporates authentic readings and radio segments from Spanish-speaking countries.

At IUP, Dr. Glisan is highly respected as a teacher, advisor, and curriculum innovator, especially for her creation in 1987 of IUP's Foreign Languages and International Studies for Elementary Education program, which trains majors to become bilingual/immersion Spanish teachers.

A past president of the Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association, she is much sought after as a workshop leader, keynote speaker, and consultant. In 1997, she was selected by the state of Texas as its national consultant on foreign-language teacher education standards.

Currently, Dr. Glisan is a key player in the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language's "New Visions" program to create a national agenda for foreign language education. She also serves on national panels that design on-line teaching methods, new assessment tools, and NCATE-approved standards for teacher education programs in the foreign languages.

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For Service, Jerry Pickering
Dr. Jerry L. Pickering joined Indiana University of Pennsylvania thirty-one years ago as a faculty member in the Department of Biology. Throughout those years, he has served the university and the Indiana community in myriad ways.

Anticipating the increasing role technology would play in education, Dr. Pickering joined several colleagues to create the Instructional Design Center, which promotes the use of technology in the classroom. He also helped to develop a strategic plan to improve teaching and learning through the integration of information technology. His commitment to instructional technology is helping IUP to become a leading university in this emerging field.

Dr. Pickering has served on numerous campus committees, including the Middle States Steering Committee, the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Long-Range Planning Committee, the Liberal Studies Committee, and the Committee on Instructional Technology and Facilities Design.

A recent committee appointment is bringing one of Dr. Pickering's major goals of to fulfillment. For more than thirty years, he and his colleagues have discussed the idea of establishing an IUP Arboretum for scientific, educational, and aesthetic purposes. A proposal for an IUP Arboretum was approved by President Lawrence K. Pettit in January, and Dr. Pickering is currently developing a plan for its creation and continued growth. According to Dr. Pickering, the arboretum "will become a gift of beauty and education to the future….for IUP students and the Indiana Community."

Dr. Pickering has provided tremendous service to students in classrooms and laboratories as well as in campus life activities. He has been a faculty advisor to Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and the Women's Soccer Club. He has coordinated Earth Day and People's Jam celebrations on campus and has served as a panel member and keynote speaker for many programs, including the Six O'Clock and Issues and Answers series.

An active member in the wider community, Dr. Pickering has served in leadership positions with the Bioethics and Institutional Review committees of Indiana Hospital, the Indiana Area Soccer Boosters Club, the Botanical Society of Indiana County; the Indiana County Family Planning Board, the Friends of the Parks, and the First Unitarian Univeralist Church.

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