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Aspiring hydrogeologist offers a fresh take on water quality

Professor Eric Peterson and graduate student Joe Miller set up a collection device near a tributary of Lake Evergreen to determine nitrate levels in the groundwater.

In the late 1980s, a lengthy drought across Central Illinois left lake levels dangerously low.

Bridging the gap: Professor’s teaching model brings research into classroom

Deborah MacPhee has designed a collaborative model of teacher education targeted at bridging the theory and practice gap, in order to better prepare aspiring teachers and improve instructors already in the classroom.

Round-robin reading just does not work. A body of research has shown that having grade school students take turns reading from a book is an ineffective way to develop literacy.

Student’s biology research recognized as ‘new and notable’

Craig Gatto and Kevin Stanley looking at a computer screen

Three years of experiments at Illinois State University, combined with over a dozen trips to collaborating laboratories at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, led the research of student Kevin Stanley, Ph.D. ’17, to be featured as “new and notable” in Biophysical Journal.

Grant news: Vets in justice system, circus history, Taiwan conference

Here is a roundup of some grants received by Illinois State faculty and staff.

Seeing the need: ISU trains providers for young children with blindness

EL VISTA scholar Jennifer Duncan worked with Heavenly Nwakamma during a home visit. The toddler had cataracts, and surgery was performed to remove her lenses. Her mother’s goal is for her to become more independent and be ready for preschool. Duncan, a vision teacher and orientation and mobility specialist for individuals ages 3 to 21, became interested in EL VISTA after learning there was a critical shortage of providers for children from birth to age 3.

Parents of children who were visually impaired used to be on their own until the child was ready for preschool.

Redbird media: New books by ISU scholars

Here are some recent books published by Illinois State University faculty.

Ask a Redbird Scholar: Why do gas prices bounce up and down weekly?

Gasoline prices change at the local level because the contracted price for delivery of gasoline changes between the gasoline retailer and wholesaler in response to the change in crude oil prices.

Q&A with Ronnie Jia: Autism, IT, and technology’s dark side

Ronnie Jia, associate professor in the School of Information Technology

Ronnie Jia, a professor in the School of Information Technology, talks about autism, IT, and technology’s dark side in this Q&A.

Upcoming National Institutes of Health proposal deadlines

The next round of proposal submission deadlines for the National Institutes of Health will be in February.

Kristin Duffield receives international research travel grant

Kristin Duffield graduate student in the school of biological sciences recently had the honor of being awarded a Godfrey Hewitt Mobility Award from the European Society of Evolutionary Biology.