Unit: Research and Sponsored Programs

Cutting-edge laser research gets NSF support

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The National Science Foundation has awarded another three-year, $300,000 grant to Distinguished Physics Professor Rainer Grobe and Distinguished Physics Professor Qichang Su for their laser research.

ISU faculty take lead in statewide HIV/STD prevention ed project

Chair Jeffrey Clark

Illinois State Department of Health Sciences Assistant Professor Adrian Lyde and Chair Jeffrey Clark received a $92,000 grant from the Illinois State Board of Education to develop school-based HIV and sexually transmitted disease prevention education for adolescents.

Reactions: A new prime is born

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Prime numbers are those positive integers whose only divisors are 1 and itself.  (The first few primes are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, ….) Recently, a computer discovered a new prime number. Illinois State’s Sunil Chebolu of the Department of Mathematics explains the race to find large prime numbers. Chebolu: Prime numbers

Distinguished dissertation award announced

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The winner of the 2016 Clarence W. Sorensen Distinguished Dissertation Award is Emerson Keith Bowers of the School of Biological Sciences. Bowers won for his dissertation titled “Family Life in the House Wren: Sibling Rivalry, Sex Allocation, and Parental Care.” Bowers’ dissertation committee included Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences Charles Thompson (co-chair) and Distinguished Professor

Gatto to give chemistry seminar March 4

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University Professor of Biophysics Craig Gatto will present a seminar titled “Ion Selectivity of the Na,K-ATPase and a Possible Intracellular Role” at 3 p.m. on Friday, March 4, in Julian 225.