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Ask a Redbird scholar: How do you inspire lifelong curiosity in students?

Accounting Professor Rosie Hauck in a classroom with students in front of computers

How do you inspire lifelong curiosity in your students for the topics you teach?

What’s inside and where to find latest Redbird Scholar

Redbird Scholar magazine on a table next to a coffee mug

See what’s inside the biannual magazine focused on the research, scholarship, and creative expression of Illinois State faculty and students.

Carrying the torch: ISU tenor, scholar honors legacy of Benjamin Britten through song and research

One of Great Britain’s best-known and most respected composers of classical music is the muse of one of Illinois State’s more prolific scholars.

Beer: What’s good for cattle

Illinois State Department of Agriculture researcher Justin Rickard is partnering with Normal’s Destihl Brewery on an ongoing research project to determine whether the craft brewer’s grain could be an economical and dependable option for Central Illinois farmers.

Students research skeletal remains to understand Pre-Columbian people

Anthropology Professor Maria Smith is working with students like Katharine Woollen to study remains unearthed from the Schroeder Mounds in order to answer questions about a mysterious pre-Columbian people. (Editor’s note: The bones in this photograph are replica skeletal remains.)

In the 1970s, the skeletal remains of about 120 Native Americans were retrieved from an ancient mound complex on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River valley in Western Illinois.

Modeling the universe: ISU physicist designs computer code to understand quantum world

Illinois State Physics Professor Allison Harris standing in front of a whiteboard containing her research.

A jumble of letters and numbers fills the computer screen. To an untrained onlooker, the lines may look like gibberish, but it is actually a computer code key to understanding the smallest pieces of the universe.

Q&A with Ralph Weisheit: Where does the war on drugs go from here?

Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice Ralph Weisheit outside on campus

In the last four years, Illinois, like many states, has been loosening its drug laws: legalizing medical marijuana, allowing universities to research industrial hemp, and decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of recreational marijuana.

Research center spotlight: Milner Library more than books

Libraries and research have always gone hand in hand. At Illinois State, Milner Library has long been at the heart of research, and as trends in higher education transformed how students learn and faculty teach, Milner has transformed too.

Ask a Redbird scholar: Can you explain Einstein’s theory of relativity?

Everyone has memorized the formula E=MC2, but can you give me a concise easy-to-remember explanation?

Grant news: Wine trails, dead zones, war injuries, and genetic secrets

Image of a fruit fly from ichemblog.org.

The following news briefs detail grants received by Illinois State faculty.