Notable

Two SIUC faculty members are being singled out by local chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi for their respective achievements in the arts and sciences.

Rodney G. Jones

Special distinction goes to poet Rodney G. Jones, who will receive the organization's 2005 Outstanding Artist Award, and research scientist Carey Krajewski, recipient of Outstanding Scholar Award.

Jones and Krajewski will be inducted into the organization at a special ceremony on campus April 9.

Each will receive a certificate of membership, $250 and an official Phi Kappa Phi medallion, which may be worn with academic regalia.

Jones is a professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts. He's also author of "Transparent Gesture," "Apocalyptic Narrative," "Things That Happen Once," and "Elegy for the Southern Drawl."

His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lavan Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Jean Stein Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Carey Krajewski

Krajewski is professor of zoology in the College of Science. A highly productive science researcher, he directs graduate studies in the science college and is founding director of the University's interdisciplinary Center for Systematic Biology.

His broader research interests are molecular systematics and evolution, avian and mammalian evolution and systematic methodology.

He's enjoyed nearly continuous funding from the National Science Foundation. A number of peer-reviewed science journals have published more than 40 articles he penned on his findings.

The National Science Foundation called on Krajewski to review manuscripts written by other scientists for 28 separate journals.

Phi Kappa Phi is an international academic honor society for all academic disciplines.

Dr. Janet R. Albers

Dr. Janet R. Albers, director and residency director of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine's Family Medicine and Family Practice Residency Training Program, was elected president of the Sangamon County Medical Society for 2005.

Albers, an associate professor, is also associate chair for the medical school's Department of Family and Community Medicine. She received SIU's Humanism in Medicine Award in 2001, and was a national finalist for the 2002 Humanism in Medicine Award.

Albers finished medical school at SIU in 1987, and is a graduate of the Family Medicine Residency program at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minn. She has also been a Fulbright Scholar to Friedrich-Alexander University in West Germany.

She will serve a one-year term. The Sangamon County Medical Society is a non-profit organization of more than 1,000 physician, resident and medical student members from Sangamon County.