Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora is the recipient of a $50,000 Equity in Verse grant awarded by the Poetry Foundation.
Poetry Foundation awards Obsidian an Equity in Verse Grant

Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora is the recipient of a $50,000 Equity in Verse grant awarded by the Poetry Foundation.
On Tuesday, December 13, the United States Department of Energy announced a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology. For the first time, scientists created more energy than what was used through a fusion ignition.
The Graduate School has selected Rachel DiSciullo as its 2022 December GradBird Scholar recipient! .
This guidance will assist federal agencies conducting research on how to understand Indigenous Knowledge, fostering relationships with Indigenous people, and applying Indigenous knowledge in federal research and other areas.
Three Illinois State University professors have been named 2022 “Researchers to Know” by the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition (ISTC).
Milner Library has recently acquired a 3D scanner for use in research and curriculum.
Publications and presentations from Illinois State University faculty and staff.
Presentations Alison Bailey, WGSS and PHI, gave the talk On Whiteness, Privilege, and Anesthesia” at the Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Conference in Tampa, Florida. Melissa Johnson, ART and WGSS, gave the talk “’A Mosaic would be its image’: Visual Pleasure and Critique in the Scrapbook of Hannah Höch” at the Refractions of Mass Culture: Modernist Print Media and
Illinois State University is part of a nationwide group of institutions working to make STEM education more inclusive and equitable.
Dr. Kathryn Sampeck is the first from Illinois State University to receive the nearly $1 million award from the British Academy. She will lead a team recentering the study of chocolate with an Indigenous Mezoamerican perspective.