Online Education

Lan Dong is the Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences. She served as Chair of the Department English and Modern Languages (2017-2019), Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2021-2022), and Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (2022-2023). She was the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Fellow in 2015 and worked on faculty development initiatives, faculty and staff handbooks, student petitions, and international student advising. She was a Center for Online ��ý, Research, and Service Faculty Fellow from 2020 to 2022 and conducted research on accessibility, inclusive pedagogy, and open educational resources.

Awards

Spencer Award for excellence in public and academic community service (2025)
Diversity and Inclusion Award (2024)
Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor Award (2019)
Faculty Excellence Award for career-long achievements in teaching and scholarship (2018)
Pearson Faculty Award for teaching excellence (2012)
University Scholar (2012)
Faculty Excellence Award for Scholarship, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2011)

Office Location

UHB 3050

English and Modern Languages

Phone Number

217-206-8334

Publications

Books

Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters (since 2020)

"Girlhood Reimagined: Malaka Gharib's Graphic Memoirs." Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, 2024.
"Girl Gamers and Digital Activism in Doctorow and Wang's In Real Life." Co-authored with Tena L. Helton. The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, vol. 77, no. 2, 2023.
"Multilingual and Multicultural Childhood: Robin Ha's Almost American Girl." Journal of Literary Multilingualism, vol. 1, no. 2, 2023. Comics Studies Society Article Prize shortlist 2025
"(Un)Masking a Chinese American Superhero: Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew's The Shadow Hero." Beyond the Icon: Asian North American Graphic Narratives, edited by Eleanor Ty, Ohio State University Press, 2022. Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize 2023
"Mapping Social Differences in the Virtual Classroom: Inclusive Multimodal Texts and Learner-Centered Design." A Socially Just Classroom: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Writing across the Humanities, edited by Vuslat Katsanis and Kristin Coffey, Vernon Press, 2022.
"History Meets Literary Imagination: The Making of a Twelfth-Century Woman Warrior." Women's Lives: Self-Representation, Reception, and Appropriation in the Middle Ages, edited by Nahir I. Otano Gracia and Daniel Armenti, University of Wales Press, 2022.
"Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: A Milestone in Asian American Literature." Asian American Literature in Transition: 1965-1996, edited by Asha Nadkarni and Cathy Schlund-Vials, Cambridge University Press, 2021. The collection was named the American Library Association's Choice 2022 Outstanding Academic Title.
"Drawing Childhood and Politics: Malik Sajad's Munnu A Boy from Kashmir." Studies in Comics, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021.
"Drawing Histories, Documenting Experiences: Clement Baloup's Vietnamese Memories." Inks: The Journal of The Comics Studies Society, vol. 5, no. 3, 2021.
"Ambiguity in Parallel: Visualizing History in Boxers and Saints." Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, Oxford University Press, 2020.

ldong4@uis.edu

Teaching

Asian American literature and culture; children's and young adult literature; comics, graphic narratives, & graphic medicine; women writers; world literature

Professor

Jennifer Martin

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Area of Expertise

Dr. Jennifer Martin is an associate professor in the School of Education at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Martin worked in public education for 17 years, 15 of those as the department chair of English at an urban alternative high school for students labeled at-risk for school failure in metropolitan Detroit. She has been the editor of the Journal of Urban ��ý Teaching and Research since 2018. She is the editor of Racial Battle Fatigue: Insights from the Front Lines of Social Justice Advocacy (Recipient of the 2016 AERA Division Bâ¿¿s Outstanding Book Recognition Award), She is the 2019 recipient of the Paula Silver Case Award for Volume Year 2018, UCEA Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership (Volume 21): for â¿¿The Bathroom Case: Creating a Supportive School Environment for Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Students.â¿¿ Her most recent co-authored book is: Mentoring the Mentor: Celebrating the Intersection of ��ý Together, A Reciprocal Journey. In 2021, she was awarded the Burks Oakley II Distinguished Online Teaching Award (University of Illinois at Springfield). She was named University Scholar at UIS for the 2022 â¿¿ 2023 academic year.

Office Location

One University Plaza, MS BRK 330

School of Education

Phone Number

217-206-6682

jmart315@uis.edu

Associate Prof.

Layne Morsch

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Area of Expertise

Chemistry

Teaching

Online Education

Awards and Honors

2024-25 University of Illinois President's Executive Leadership Program

2023-24 Illinois Academy for Leadership and Development

2020-2023 Center for Faculty Excellence Faculty Associate

2019 UIS Pearson Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching

2018 UIS Burks Oakley II Distinguished Online Teaching Award

2017 College of Liberal Arts and Science Excellence in Teaching Award

Apple Distinguished Educator â¿¿ Class of 2015 â¿¿ read the Press Release

Follow me on Twitter, LinkedIn, ResearchGate

Service

Center for Faculty Excellence Faculty Associate (2020-)
Academic Technology Committee (2018-2021)
Faculty Development Advisory Board (2015-2020)
Chair, Department of Chemistry (2016-2019)
Facilitator for Excellence in Teaching and ��ý Fellows (2017-2020)
2017-19 COLRS Senior Faculty Fellow
University Tenure Review Committee (2015-2018)
2014-15 Center for Online ��ý, Research and Service (COLRS) Faculty Fellow
Co-chair UIS StARS (Student Arts & Research Symposium) (2012-2016)
Intercollegiate Athletics Committee (2010-2016)
Faculty mentor for UIS Chemistry Club (2008-2016)

Office Location

BRK 492

Research

My research focuses on how to improve student engagement and learning in organic chemistry. Recent examples include:

inter-institutional collaborative assignments for organic chemistry (A story on our international partnership)
collaborative learning in sciences
flipped learning/active learning
student authored videos to explain chemistry topics
replacing traditional textbooks with the Chemistry LibreTexts (Open Educational Resources)
Video Vignettes - My students create video vignettes to explain topics in organic chemistry. They can be found on YouTube

Office of the Executive Director OPEL

Phone Number

217-206-8487

Publications

Harnessing AI Tools to Improve Academic Integrity, L. Morsch, M. Gribbins, and E. Boles, EvoLLLution: A Modern Campus Illumination, October 24, 2023.
A Framework for Designing Online Collaborative Inquiry, B. McCollum, L. Morsch, M. Wentzel, in volume Taking Stock 2.0: Transforming Teaching and ��ý in Higher Education, Eds. Hughes, J. C., Mighty, J., and Stockley, D., 203-223 STLHE. (2022).
Reading and Relationships in Organic Chemistry, B. McCollum, L. Morsch, in volume Reading Across the Disciplines, Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0253058720 (May 2022).
Teaching Cheminformatics through a Collaborative Intercollegiate Online Chemistry Course (OLCC), S. Kim, E. C Bucholtz, K. Briney, A. P. Cornell, J.Cuadros, K. D. Fulfer, T. Gupta, E. Hepler-Smith, D. H. Johnston, A. S.I.D. Lang, D. Larsen, Y. Li, L. R. McEwen, L. A. Morsch, J. L. Muzyka, and R. E. Belford, Journal of Chemical Education, 2021, 98, 416-425.
Reading and Relationships in Organic Chemistry, McCollum, Morsch, and Wentzel, In Press, May 2020.
Student-generated videos in chemistry education, M. Gallardo-Williams, Morsch, C. Paye, and M. Seery, Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2020, 21, 488-495., January 2020.
The Mechanisms App and Platform: A New Game-based Product for ��ý Curved Arrow Notation, Winter, S. Wegworth, B. DeKorver, L. Morsch, D. DeSutter, L. Goldman and L. Reutenauer, Active ��ý in Organic Chemistry: Implementation and Analysis. ACS Symposium Series, January 1, 2019., 99-115.
Multi-dimensional trust between partners for international online collaborative learning in â¿¿The Third Spaceâ¿¿, Brett McCollum, Layne Morsch, and Michael Wentzel, In Press- International Journal of Students as Partners, April 2019.
Emergence of Different Perspectives of Success in Collaborative ��ý, McCollum, Falcione, Campbell, Chamberlain, Macias, Morsch, and Pinder, In Press â¿¿ Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and ��ý, March 2019.
Inquiry-Based IR Spectroscopy Activity Using iSpartan or Spartan for Introductory-Organic-Chemistry Students , Amy Balija and Layne Morsch, Journal of Chemical Education submitted, March 2019.
Practicing Multi-modal Chemistry Communication through Online Collaborative ��ý, Michael Wentzel, Isaiah Ripley, Layne Morsch and Brett McCollum, Chapter accepted, May 2019.
Overcoming Barriers for Implementing International Online Collaborative Assignments, Brett McCollum, Layne Morsch, Brandon Shokoples and Darlene Skagen, Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and ��ý, 10(1), 2019.
Developing Communication Confidence and Professional Identity in Chemistry through International Online Collaborative ��ý, Darlene Skagen, Brett McCollum, Layne Morsch and Brandon Shokoples, Chemical Education Research and Practice, 2018, 19, 567-582.
Student Authored Video Vignettes in Chemistry, Layne A. Morsch, e-Mentor, 2017, 3, 25-32. DOI: 10.15219/em70.1303
Flipped Teaching in Organic Chemistry Using iPad Devices, Layne A. Morsch, The Flipped Classroom Volume 1: Background and Challenges, Jan 2016, 73-92. DOI:10.1021/bk-2016-1223.ch006

Chancellor Kochâ¿¿s State Journal Register Columns:

Classroom Technology
Teaching Fellows Program
Online ��ý
Engaging Organic Chemistry Students Using ChemDraw for iPad, L.A. Morsch and M. Lewis, Journal of Chemical Education, 2015, 92(8), 1402-1405. DOI 1021/acs.jchemed.5b00054 (June 2015)
Green Aqueous Wittig Reaction: Teaching Green Chemistry in Organic Teaching Laboratories, Layne A. Morsch, Leanne Deak, Dyllan Tiburzi, Harrison Schuster, and Brittney Meyer, Journal of Chemical Education, 2014, 91(4), 611-614. DOI: 10.1021/ed400408k (Feb 2014)

School of Integrated Sciences, Sustainability, and Public Health

lmorsc1@uis.edu

Involvement

Generative Artificial Intelligence, Faculty Development

Lectures

AI AI Oh! Strategies for engaging learners with artificial intelligence while promoting academic integrity, L. Morsch, M. Gribbins, E. Boles, Distance Teaching & ��ý and Summit for Online Leadership and Administration, Madison, WI (July 2023).
Everything DiSC - What is DiSC, What is Your DiSC Style, OPEL Retreat, July 2023.
ChatGPT as a Tool, Not a Solution, L. Morsch, D. Blaum, E. Boles, S. Collins, Oral Presentation at 2023 Faculty Summer Institute, Champaign, IL (May 2023)
Central and Southern Illinois Faculty Development Network - Building Relationships across Illinois while expanding Faculty Development Opportunities, L. Morsch, T. Ambrose, K. Jones, Poster Presentation at 2023 Faculty Summer Institute, Champaign, IL (May 2023)
ChatGPT: How to talk about & use A.I. in classes, Illinois Association of Teachers of English Spring Conference, Millikin University (March 2023)
Reflective Practice, Invited Workshop, UIS Tennis Team (March 2022).
Design for Online Collaborations â¿¿ Beyond the Pandemic, L. Morsch, B. McCollum; M. Wentzel., 2022 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, West Lafayette, IN (August 2022).
What Iâ¿¿m learning about myself: Student meta-reflections in organic chemistry, L. Morsch, B. McCollum; M. Wentzel., 2022 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, West Lafayette, IN (August 2022).
Beyond the pandemic â¿¿ framework for successful online collaborations, L. Morsch, B. McCollum; M. Wentzel., Canadian Chemical Conference and Exhibition, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (June 2022)
What I could have done to get the most of the experience: student metareflections in organic chemistry, L. Morsch, B. McCollum; M. Wentzel., Canadian Chemical Conference and Exhibition, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (June 2022)
Engaging organic chemistry students in multimodal communication practice through online collaborative learning. L. Morsch; B. McCollum; M. Wentzel. Pacifichem 2021, Virtual Conference.Student authored metaphors of online collaborative learning: Is it a platypus or rivers merging?, H. Hollinshead and L. Morsch, Poster presentation, 2019 American Chemical Society Fall National Meeting, San Diego, CA (August 2019).
Faculty perspectives of facilitating an online collaborative learning experience, C. Pinder, D. Skagen and L. Morsch, Poster presentation, 2019 American Chemical Society Fall National Meeting, San Diego, CA (August 2019).
Chemistry communication practice through online collaborative learning, L. Morsch. Poster and oral presentations, 2019 American Chemical Society Fall National Meeting, San Diego, CA (August 2019).
Active learning in organic chemistry integrating LibreTexts OER and flipped instruction, L. Morsch. Poster and oral presentations, 2019 American Chemical Society Fall National Meeting, San Diego, CA (August 2019).
Student metaphors of online collaborative learning from INCLD: International Network for Chemistry Language Development, L. Morsch, B. McCollum, M. Wentzel. Oral Presentation at 2018 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE), South Bend, IN (August 2018)
Growing student confidence in communication from INCLD: International Network for Chemistry Language Development, L. Morsch, B. McCollum, M. Wentzel. Oral Presentation at 2018 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE), South Bend, IN (August 2018)
Emergence of different perspectives of success in collaborative learning, C. Pinder, E. Campbell, S. Falcione, L. Morsch, B. McCollum, J. Chamberlain, M. Macias. Poster Presentation at 2018 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE), South Bend, IN (August 2018)
Exploring the essence of success in collaborative learning using phenomenology, C. Pinder, E. Campbell, S. Falcione, L. Morsch, B. McCollum, J. Chamberlain, M. Macias. Poster Presentation at 2018 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE), South Bend, IN (August 2018)
Studying abroad without leaving your own campus in the International Network for Chemistry Language Development, INCLD, B. Ekwonwa, I. Ripley, A. Roberts, L. Morsch, B. McCollum, M. Wentzel. Poster Presentation at 2018 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE), South Bend, IN (August 2018)
Invited Keynote Address, ICCHE Innovation Award Winner Presentation: Collaborative ��ý Across Borders, ICCHE-ACHE Great Lakes Joint Conference, Chicago, IL (February 2018).
Cross-Border Disciplinary Dialogue Between Peers, L. Morsch and B. McCollum Oral Presentation at International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and ��ý (ISSOTL) 2017, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (October 2017).
Designing an Interinstitutional Collaborative Assignment, Morsch Oral Presentation at 2017 Faculty Summer Institute, Champaign, IL (May 2017).
nterinstitutional Chemistry Communication Practice Part 1: The ins and outs of implementing an international collaboration, L. Morsch and B. McCollum Oral Presentation at 253rd American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting, San Francisco, CA (April 2017).
Interinstitutional Chemistry Communication Practice Part 2: Technological, social, and disciplinary barriers, B. McCollum and L. Morsch Oral Presentation at 253rd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA (April 2017).
Interinstitutional Collaborative Chemistry Assignments, T. Chasteen, B. Shokoples, D. Skagen, B. McCollum and L. Morsch Poster Presentation at 253rd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA (April 2017).

Teaching

Organic Chemistry, Scientific Communication

CHE 267 Organic Chemistry I â¿¿ Check out Organic Chem 1 on Chem 1 on Libre Texts

CHE 268 Organic Chemistry I lab

CHE 269 Organic Chemistry II â¿¿ Check out Organic Chem 2 on Chem 2 on LibreTexts, or Chem 2 on YouTube

CHE 271 Organic Chemistry II lab

CHE/BIO 301 General Seminar

CHE 302 Undergraduate Research

CHE 363 ECCE: Energy & the Environment

CHE 124 General Chemistry for the Health Professions

CHE 151 Survey of Organic and Biochemistry

Associate Provost Faculty Affairs

Professor

Area of Specialization

Organic Chemistry

B.S. Chemistry: Minnesota State University Mankato (1991)

Ph.D. Organic Chemistry: The University of Illinois â¿¿ Chicago (2001)

Peter Boltuc

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Area of Expertise

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Ethics

Machine ��ý (ML)

Management/Administration

Online Education

Philosophy

Poland

SPECIALIZATION: philosophy of AI; machine consciousness

COMPETENCE: philosophy of mind, applied ethics (computer, business, healthcare, environmental), political philosophy, social capital; managemenr theory at the age of AI

SPECIAL INTEREST: cognitive science; e-learning; Artificial General Intelligence

The Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Endowed Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences, a three-year endowed professorship, University of Illinois, Springfield 2013 â¿¿ 2016

Outstanding Service to the University of Illinois Senates Conference, Urbana-Champaign, 2017

Erskine Professor of Philosophy, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, June-August 2016

Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, June-August 2014

Faculty Excellence Award, University of Illinois Springfield, 2011

Academic Leadership Training, University of Illinois Springfield, Fall 2011

Board Member, African American History Museum of Springfield IL, 2003-2014

Member, Committee on Ethics and Human Values at the Memorial Medical Center, Springfield Illinois 1999-2002

Princeton University, Department of Philosophy Fulbright Graduate Fellow, 1991-92

Oxford University, St. Johnsâ¿¿ College, SCR member, Soros, Faculty Fellow, June-July 1988

MAIN EDITORIAL BOARDS

Computation in Neural Systems, Taylor & Francis, Board of Associate Editors, 2021 â¿¿ present

Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness, 2020 board memberâ¿¿ ongoing

APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, Editor, 2007- 2020

E-Mentor, board member, Warsaw School of Economics, 2004 â¿¿ ongoing

International Journal of Machine Consciousness, World Scientific, co-editor NY, 2009 â¿¿ 2014

Polish Journal of Philosophy, board member, 2007 â¿¿ ongoing

Philosophies; MDPI board member, 2016 â¿¿ ongoing

Humanities, MDPI board member, 2012 â¿¿ ongoing

Information, MDPI board member, 2010 â¿¿ ongoing

Philosophy and Science, Polish Academy of Science, 2009â¿¿ ongoing

Dialogue and Universalism, international co-editor, 2001, consulting editor - ongoing,

Office Location

University Hall

Mathematical Sciences and Philosophy

Phone Number

217-206-7422

Publications

MAIN PUBLICATIONS IN AI THEORY'

â¿¿Alien Versus Natural-Like Artificial General Intelligencesâ¿¿ H. Shneider; P..Boltuc: Artificial General Intelligence: proceedings 16th International Conference, AGI 2023, Stockholm, Sweden, June 16â¿¿19, 2023, Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series 2023 Pages 233â¿¿243 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33469-6_24
â¿¿Industry 5.0: Theoretical Limitations and Ethical Chancesâ¿¿ in. J Wielgorska-Leszczynska; M. Matusewicz: 30 Years in the Social Sciences. New Thoughts and Ideas; SGH Press, Warsaw Poland 2023 p.55-74
"Moral Space for Paraconsistent AGI", in Ben Goertzel, Matthew Ikle, Denis Ponomaryov, Alexey Potapov. Artificial General Intelligence Chapter 16 series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 13539, Springer Science, Switzerland p 83-97; 2022
â¿¿The Fourth Space in the Fourth Revolutionâ¿¿ In: Felix Francisco Ramos Corchado and Alexei V. Samsonovich (Eds.). 2022 Annual International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Intelligence: The 13th Annual Meeting of the BICA Society. Procedia Computer Science, Volume 213C, Pages p. 89-95. 2022. ISSN: 1877-0509 Nov. 2022
â¿¿Non-Reductive Physicalism for AGIâ¿¿ Filozofia i Nauka 10 June 2022 p. 33-48 https://filozofiainauka.studiafilozoficzne.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Bo%C5%82tu%C4%87_33.pdf
â¿¿Philosophy and Computing Conference at IS4SI 2021â¿¿ From the Editor Proceedings 2022, 81(1), 149;
â¿¿The Fourth Space as Realityâ¿¿ Proceedings MDPI June 2022, 81(1), 151;
â¿¿Uncanny Robots of Perfectionâ¿¿ (with Thomas P. Connelly), in: (Gudwin R. et al) Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Intelligence: BICA*AI 2020, Springer Science, p. 56-68, 2021
â¿¿BICA for AGIâ¿¿ (with M. I. Boltuc) Cognitive Systems Research vol 62 (August 2020), p. 57-67 [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389041719304863?via%3Dihub]
â¿¿Conscious AI at the Edge of Chaosâ¿¿ Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness Volume 07, Issue 01 (March 2020) p. 25-38
â¿¿Consciousness for AGIâ¿¿ Procedia Computer Science (2019) Postproceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, BICA 2019 (Tenth Annual Meeting of the BICA Society), ed. by A.V. Samsonovich and V.V. Klimov. Procedia Computer Science, 2020, pp. 349-356. ISSN 1877-0509
â¿¿Semantics beyond Languageâ¿¿ (with M. I. Boltuc) in: Samsonovich A. V. (ed.) Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2019 in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 948; Springer Science 2020 p. 36-47
â¿¿Subject is no Objectâ¿¿ in: M. Burgin; Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic (eds) Epistemic Basis of Information, Philosophy of Information, World Scientific 2019 p. 3-39
â¿¿AI Consciousnessâ¿¿ in (ed.) A. Chella, TOCAIS 2019 Towards Conscious AI Systems, AAAI CEUR Springer, 2019 [http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2287/paper3.pdf] 1-8 (no generalized page numbers)
â¿¿Identity Translationâ¿¿ in L. Harmon (ed.) Identity in Translation, Peter Lang (2019) p. 79-91
â¿¿BICA a Reboursâ¿¿ in: A.V. Samsonovich (ed.) Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Springer Aug. 2018 p. 27-43
Strong Semantic Computing, Procedia Computer Science 123 Feb. 2018 p. 98â¿¿103 [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050918300176]
â¿¿Cognitive Agents: Is There a Moral Gap Between Human and Artificial Intelligence?â¿¿ in Tzfestas S. (ed.) Information, Communication and Automation Technology Ethics in the Knowledge Society. NOVA Science Publishers 2018.
â¿¿Church-Turing Lovers.â¿¿ In: Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence; Lin, P., Abney, K., Jenkins, R., Eds.; Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, 2017; p. 214â¿¿228
"The Power of Online Educationâ¿¿ in: (Zacher, L. ed.) Potentials and Power Relations in Digitized Society (Pol.) Poltext, Warsaw Jan. 2018
â¿¿Metacomputableâ¿¿, Entropy, Oct. 2017 [https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/11

Discovery Partners Institute

pbolt1@uis.edu

Involvement

Conference Chair, Philosophy and Computing; Virtual Conference on Zoom, 12-19 September h2021, contributing to the 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) administered from Japan in collaboration with Zoom administered through AGI Laboratory /Uplift/, USA. Organized by: Association on Philosophy and Computing (APC) affiliate of the APA; PHAEDE Philosophy of Engineering and Artifact in the Digital Era); philosophy interest group within BICA; Philosophy and Science PAN (journal of the Polish Academy of Science)

Coordinating committee member; Association for Philosophy and Computing (APC), 2020 - ongoing

Chair Committee on Philosophy and Computers, American Philosophical Association, 2019-20

Lectures

MAIN LECTURES related to AI

â¿¿AI2AGI: Socio-economic, Legal, and Humanistic ramificationsâ¿¿ Simuli: Towards Safe AGI, expert forum: Invited Talk, Oct 14-17, 2023 Eugene OR, Mount Tom House
â¿¿Alien Versus Natural-Like Artificial General Intelligencesâ¿¿ (with Howard Schneider), 2023 AGI congress, June 16-18 Stockhom, Sweden
European Academy of Management; EURAM 2023 Transforming Business for Good: Lab for Ph.D. students, with Daniel Hardegger and two others â¿¿DISCOVERING THE â¿¿4TH SPACEâ¿¿: IDENTIFYING RESEARCHABLE TOPICS ON THE HYBRID SOCIETY AND HYBRID COMMUNITIESâ¿¿ June 13, 2023 Trinity College of Business, Dublin, Ireland
â¿¿Deflationary nonreductive physicalism. May awareness be 'creature consciousness', and may AIs have it?â¿¿ The Science of Consciousness 2023, May 23-37 Taormina, Sicily
â¿¿Beyond Digital Transformation 4.0. AI, New Applications and Opportunities" Inaugural Speech, Abu Dhabi Technology Week UAE University, Computer Technology, Business and Economics Departments Feb. 01, 2023
â¿¿Beyond Industry 4.0, but not very far.â¿¿ Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA-2022) #165 Guadalajara, Mexico September 22-25 (plenary panel)

Teaching

Teaching Advanced Classes on AI:

Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ: offering MA/Ph.D seminar in AI Consciousness July-August 2022l; June-July 2016

UIS: PHI/CSC470- Philosophy of AI (Fall 2018-2022)

UIS: PHI460 Philosophy of Digital Transformation Summer 2023

SGH: AI: Values and Strategies Summer 2022

SGH: Digital Transformation, Winter 2021

UIS: Ethics for IT Professionals, 2018

Poznan University: Visiting senior professorâ¿¿s Ph.D. Seminar: Consciousness Studies, 2014

UIUC School of Engineering, Computer Ethics (guest teaching in Keith Millerâ¿¿s class), Spring 2013

Professor

DPI Affiliate

Area of Specialization

Team member::SIMULI.AI. An eight member AGI research team, lead by Rachel St. Clair; Ben Goertzel; Binoy Sayed; members include L. Andrew Coward and Peter Sutor Jul.2023 - ongoing https://www.simuli.ai/team/  

Primary Investigator, US DoD, Army Research Lab, Philosophy of Visual Processing administered through UIS Sept. 2017- Sept.2019

Ahmad Jumah

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Area of Expertise

Office Location

One University Plaza UHB 4029

Research

Accounting & Finance

Accounting, Economics, and Finance

Phone Number

217-206-8366

Publications

His research interests include data breaches, outsourcing, blockchain, cryptocurrency, data analytics, materiality implications, performance measurements, behavioral accounting, and finance. Examples of his publications are as follows.

ajuma4@uis.edu

Involvement

He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Management Accountant (CMA). He has taught accounting and finance courses in various universities since 1987. Earlier, he worked as a professor of Accounting and Finance at the IAUPR since 1992, where he coordinated the Doctoral Program in Finance in the Graduate School in the Faculty of Business [2011-2017]. Also, he worked as an auditor for small businesses and as a financial consultant.

Lectures

ACC 524 (Advanced Auditing); ACC 536 (Accounting Data Analytics); ACC 583 (Capstone)

Teaching

Advanced auditing; Accounting Data Analytics; Capstone, and special topics in accounting. He previously, taught seminars in finance (investment, corporate finance, financial strategy, and special topics in finance). DBA finance research supervisor at UIAPR.

Editorial Boards

Reviewer in several conferences and IJAIS, JIS, and Information systems frontiers.

Professor

Area of Specialization

Area of specialization: Accounting, Auditing, & Financial Performance & Analytics

Kristi Barnwell

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Area of Expertise

"The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academyâ¿¦Urging all of us to open our minds and hearts so that we can know beyond the boundaries of what is acceptable, so that we can think and rethink, so that we can create new visionsâ¿¦." --bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress

Dr. Kristi N. Barnwell received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin in History in 2011. She has published works on the creation of the United Arab Emirates, British imperialism and American-Jordanian relations.

Undergraduate courses taught:

HIS 161: Introduction to the Modern Middle East (Falls, on ground)
HIS/WGS 211: Women and Gender in the Middle East (Springs, on ground)
HIS 373: ECCE Reading Arab Pasts (online and on ground)
HIS 375: ECCE Conflict in the Middle East (online and on ground)
HIS 475: ECCE Imperialism and Nationalism (online and on ground)
HIS 470: Research in the Arab Gulf

Graduate seminars:

HIS 501: Graduate History Colloquium (Fall, on ground)
HIS 504: American Material Life (Spring 2024, on ground)
HIS 510s: Theories of British Imperialism (2011), Modern Middle East Culture and Society (2016), Race and Slavery in the Middle East (2021)

Awards:

Pearson Faculty Award for excellence in teaching (2022)
CLAS Award for excellence in teaching (2021)
CLAS Award for excellence in service (2017)

Publications (selected):

The Formation of the UAE: State Building and Arab Nationalism in the Middle East (forthcoming, Spring 2024) from I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury Academic
"Centering Students in Peer-led Discussion Boards," Issues in Middle East Studies, May 2022, pp. 23-24.
"Overthrowing the Shaykhs: The Trucial States at the Intersection of Anti-Imperialism, Arab Nationalism, and Politics," Arab Studies Journal (2016).
"'Caught Between His Friends and His Enemies': The Evolution of American-Jordanian Collaboration in the 1960s," Diplomacy & Statecraft (2011)

Office Location

UHB 3070

History

Phone Number

217-206-7420

Publications

Modern Middle East, United Arab Emirates, British Imperialism, US-Jordanian Relations

kbarn2@uis.edu

Involvement

UPI 4100/UIS United Faculty President and Grievance Officer

Campus Senator, CLASS Representative

Member, CLASS Curriculum Committee

Chair, University Requirements Committee

Faculty Advisor, Political Understanding and Activism Club

Teaching

Middle East History, History methods, Material Culture, Global Studies, Women and Gender Studies

Associate Prof.

Area of Specialization

Middle East politics, culture, and history