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Week of October 10: Foundations of Diversity and Inclusion

The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology’s fall seminar series, Foundations of Diversity and Inclusion, begins this week!

UNICEF and Syrian children, October 11

Whitney Cross, the Chicago Community Engagement Fellow for the U.S. Fund for United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) will talk about the impact of armed conflict on the children.

Mitchell awarded $210,000 NSF grant for organic chemistry work

image of Andy Mitchell, top right, and the students of his organic chemistry lab.

Andy Mitchell has been awarded a $210,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help students create new compounds in the laboratory.

Let’s Talk Teaching: Books that inspire

Books on Dr. Claire Lamonica's bookshelf

In this week’s episode, we head to the bookshelf for some “must reads.”

International Education Week: Speakers, fair, performances, Gala Night

International Education Week celebrates the internationalization and diversity of Illinois State University by highlighting events, programs, and courses that enhance the globalization of our campus.

Dictators and democracy: Former ambassador of Iraq to U.N. to speak

image of northern Africa and the Middle East on a globe

Ambassador Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi, who worked to help Iraq transition from dictatorship to democracy, will be the keynote speaker October 11 for International Education Week.

Human Library speaker helps students see adversity

Amanda Coleman shows the students a book that has a picture of her injured eye.

No one has ever boarded three flights and traveled 1,500 miles from another country to be part of Illinois State’s Human Library, but Amanda Coleman has been through more. The soft-spoken woman from Nova Scotia, Canada, wanted to tell her story, which was hard to listen to. At 18 months old, she was blinded in

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