Patricia Allen could be on ER, doing hands-on teaching in the commercial and as a clinical professor in IU’s School of Nursing, the largest nursing school in the nation. A critical-care nurse, she instructs junior-level students beginning their clinical rotations and teaches on the topics of developmental issues and health, and on science and technology. Allen is a member of several professional nursing organizations, including the Midwest Nursing Research Society, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

You have to be quick to find Virginia Cesbron, but she’s there, centered at the head of the barre leading dancers through their warm-ups. Cesbron, associate professor of music and chair of the Department of Ballet, danced with the Pennsylvania Ballet Company, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company and apprenticed with the American Ballet. Before coming to IU, she taught and was ballet mistress for Ballet Hispanico of New York, The Feld Ballet, The New Ballet School, The Dance Movement (New York) and Theatre du Silence.

You will have no problem finding Glenn Gass, center stage under the spotlight. An associate professor of music, he has created some of IU’s most popular classes. In addition to the history of rock ‘n roll, the first such class to be offered in any music school or conservatory, he teaches a survey course on the history of Western classical music and takes a group of students “on site” to London for a course on the Beatles. An award-winning teacher, he is also a composer whose work has been performed internationally and is the author of the Random House textbook, A History of Rock Music, a book, he said, that takes the music seriously.

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Susan Gubar, Distinguished Professor of English, was filmed in her office in Ballantine Hall. Gubar, who has taught at IU for more than 20 years, published The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the 19-Century Literary Imagination with Sandra Gilbert in 1979. The book was a runner-up for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1985, again with Gilbert, she received a Ms. Woman of the Year award for a compilation of the Norton Anthology of Literature of Women, a work that appeared in a revised second edition in 1996. Gubar is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the author of several other books.

With all the technology used to make this commercial, Ash Soni (left in this photo) should look right at home on television. An associate professor of decision sciences in the IU Kelley School of Business, the interplay of business and technology is his specialty. Soni teaches classes in technology management, computer simulation and enterprise resource planning.