Dr. Mahua Biswas is the recipient of a grant from the highly selective Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program.
Mahua Biswas receives early career NSF grant

Dr. Mahua Biswas is the recipient of a grant from the highly selective Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program.
The Illinois State University Planetarium will present Undiscovered Worlds: The Search Beyond Our Sun, running weekends from August 19 – October 22.
The College of Arts and Sciences will host a retirement reception for Interim Dean Dr. Diane Zosky from 3 to 5 p.m. on July 21 in the Aaron Leetch Stadium Club at the top of Hancock Stadium, with remarks at 3:45. All members of the University community are invited to attend.
When young Diane Zosky ’80 enrolled at Illinois State University as an undergraduate in the late 1970s, she didn’t dream that she would conclude her career at the University as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Illinois State University Planetarium presents Flight Adventures, running through July 22.
The College of Arts and Sciences will hold its second annual golf outing to benefit the Wilson Family Assistance Fund on Friday, June 10, at Weibring Golf Club. All students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of the College are welcome to participate.
Dr. Maura Toro-Morn, professor of sociology and director of Latin American and Latino/a Studies, will deliver the 2022 Spring College Lecture at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 25 in Section I of the Brown Ballroom in the Bone Student Center. Her lecture, “Gendered Migrations in the Age of Global Disruption,” is free and open to the public.
A television production crew with experience working on Emmy award-winning reality shows was on campus for a weeklong shoot with 10 Illinois State University students who shared their experiences as Redbirds for a 30-minute episode of The College Tour, scheduled to stream on Amazon Prime Video this fall.
In celebration of Earth Day, the Illinois State Planetarium will offer Habitat Earth: Living in a Connected World, narrated by Frances McDormand.
Ian Freeman, a junior at Illinois State University, has been named a 2022-2023 Barry Goldwater Scholar. The award is one of the most prestigious national scholarships in the fields of STEM.