Mark Olson and Eros DeSouza replicated a 2002 survey on instructors coming out in the classroom, with results that surprised them.
Coming out in the classroom: Surprising results for character survey
Unit: Research and Sponsored Programs
Reactions: A look at the historic Myanmar elections
Htin Kyaw has been named the new president of Myanmar after a historic battle for democracy. Illinois State’s Professor Joseph Zompetti, comments on the elections after he spent time in Myanmar helping non-governmental organizations (NGOs) create arguments for democracy under a military regime.
5 things you will discover in latest Redbird Scholar
The spring issue of the Redbird Scholar is now available online and in print.
Prestigious NIH fellowship helps student fight Asian mosquito invasion
Thirty years after Asian tiger mosquitos first arrived in the United States, Illinois State doctoral student Peter Brabant is working to stop their spread.
Video: Research (and some B.E.E.R.) fuels ISU’s biomath program
One day last fall, Stacy Mowry, M.S. ’15, stood in front of the best and brightest minds in her chosen field—biomathematics—and talked about her own research into baffling behavior seen in mongooses.
Ask a Redbird Scholar: Why do we laugh and cry?
Why do people cry when they’re sad? Laugh when they’re happy?
Magneto man: Professor helps solve animal migration mystery
Illinois State Professor Andres Vidal-Gadea led a research team that won the race to be the first laboratory to find the receptor in the brain that helps animals use the planet’s magnetic field to navigate.
Ask a Redbird Scholar: How safe is Bloomington-Normal’s drinking water?
How does the drinking water in Bloomington-Normal compare to other cities in the United States?
Ask a Redbird Scholar: What other species show up in human genome?
I understand that nearly everyone has Neanderthal DNA, but are there other traces of species of early humans that are found in the human genome?
Research center spotlight: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Each issue we will be using this space to shine a spotlight on a different research center at Illinois State University. First up is the Office of the Cross Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).
