Six members of the College of Arts and Sciences were presented with 2015-2016 Excellence Awards at the Dean’s Fall Address and Awards Ceremony on September 13. Professor Maria Schmeeckle, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, won the John A. Dossey Award for Outstanding Teaching by a tenured faculty member. Professor Allison Harris, Department of Physics, won
Unit: Biological Sciences
Exploring genetic secrets of muscular dystrophy goal of NIH grant for Mortimer
Alysia Vrailas-Mortimer received a $435,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue her work understanding the genetic keys to a form of muscular dystrophy.
5 things you will discover in latest Redbird Scholar
The spring issue of the Redbird Scholar has been published.
Ask a Redbird Scholar: Is the monarch butterfly population rebounding?
I seem to have noticed more monarch butterflies recently than in years past. Is the population rebounding, or is it just my imagination?
Our Newest Redbirds: Chasing her passion all the way from Alaska
“Science is what I want to do and is my passion,” said Elise Webber from Homer, Alaska, who started her freshman year this fall at Illinois State University.
Biology alumna publishes thesis in Journal of Experimental Zoology
Meghan S. Strange, M.S. ’15, recently published her thesis work in the Journal of Experimental Zoology.
Summer Research Academy draws students from across Illinois
Sixty-five high school students from across the state (and a few from out-of-state) will take part in the 2016 Illinois Summer Research Academy (ISRA), July 10-15, at Illinois State University.
Bringing bats out of the shadows
Angelo Capparella is working hard to save a nighttime ally—bats—by uncovering their migratory patterns.
Undergraduate Pravleen Bains accepted into NIH research program
Pravleen Bains, an undergraduate researcher in professor Laura Vogel’s lab (School of Biological Sciences at ISU), has been accepted to the prestigious National Institutes of Health’s STEP UP program.
Photos: Redbird scholars at Illinois State Research Symposium
More than 500 Illinois State undergraduate and graduate students distilled months of hard work into posters that they displayed Friday at the University Research Symposium.