Redbird Scholar magazine spotlights a different research center at Illinois State University in every issue. This time we look at the Center for Renewable Energy.
Research spotlight: Center for Renewable Energy
Unit: Research and Sponsored Programs
Former foster youth research how to help peers succeed
Lauretta Schaefer is a dance education major who spent her early childhood in the foster care system before being adopted. Now she is working with Social Work Professor Doris Houston, director of Illinois State’s Center for Child Welfare and Adoption Studies, to investigate the factors that influence academic success for Illinois students who have spent time in foster care.
Unprecedented fight: Scalia’s death puts Supreme Court on trial during election
The sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13 not only left a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, but it also pulled the very future of the court into the turmoil of a heated presidential election.
Ask a Redbird Scholar: Is there weather in space?
Why don’t we have weather in space?
Ask a Redbird Scholar: How did we end up with 2 unpopular presidential candidates?
How do you think that the presidential election has gotten to where it is, with two candidates who have such vehement opposition?
What campaign logos can tell us about our next president
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama wasn’t just a politician. He was a brand.
Which polls should you trust? Redbird scholar offers tips for understanding polls
Did you vote in the last election?
Redbird media: News books by ISU scholars
The following summaries of books authored or edited by Illinois State faculty appear in the fall 2016 print issue of the Redbird Scholar.
Ask a Redbird Scholar: Is the monarch butterfly population rebounding?
I seem to have noticed more monarch butterflies recently than in years past. Is the population rebounding, or is it just my imagination?
Doctoral student researches ways to educate deaf-blind children with autism
Research into how to best teach a child who is blind, deaf, and autistic is scant. There is not even a reliable estimate of how many students have all three disabilities. Kristi Probst ’96, M.S. ’98, is working to fill those gaps.
