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Joie Pecoraro removes floor tiles from a second story classroom of a church that will soon become a community center.

Service over break

ISU students serve Memphis communities during Alternative Winter Break

Coronavirus Update, January 21, 2022

Information about the return to in-person learning, KN95 mask availability, on-campus vaccination and booster clinics, entry testing, and more.

Tiny particles with huge potential

Undergraduate physics students are making a big impact in the nanomaterials lab of Dr. Mahua Biswas.

Image of Dr. Tarhule on background of world map

ISU International Engagement: Spring 2022 International Seminar Series

Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Dr. Aondover Tarhule will be featured in the first event of the spring 2022 International Seminar Series: ISU International Engagement on January 26.

Six students standing in a line singing into shared microphones in front of them.

Make a joyful noise: Interdenominational Youth Choir worships through song and outreach

It’s a Thursday night in December, and members of the Interdenominational Youth Choir (IYC) are huddled together in the Circus Room of the Bone Student Center. After a quick prayer and a scripture reading, the choir begins to sing in worship.

Redbirds in the Know: COVID-19 and the Omicron variant

Illinois State University School of Biological Sciences professors offer insights on the Omicron variant.

Boomer Grigsby '07 playing football for Redbirds

Grigsby selected as member Of 2022 College Football Hall of Fame Class

Illinois State football legend Boomer Grigsby has earned a spot among college football’s all-time greats, as the National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame announced January 10 that he will be a member of the 2022 College Football Hall of Fame Class.

In the News

ISU will supply all students, faculty, staff with KN95 masks

Victor G. Devinatz discusses states with highest job resignation rates

Leah Johnson posing with volleyball in front of net

Coach Leah Johnson speaks with Randy Kindred

Athletics

Joe’s Station House to Host Illinois State Basketball Coaches Shows Tonight

Illinois State Drops Both Matches of Sunday Doubleheader at Arkansas

Cold Shooting Downs Redbirds in Road Battle

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Publications

Illinois State shows strong enrollment, growth in freshmen and transfers

Illinois State University welcomed 3,374 freshmen to its student body for the 2021-2022 academic year. Total enrollment stands at 20,233.

Thomas McClure, director of legal studies and professor in the Department of Politics and Government, created Illinois State's new Expungement Clinic. Kelly Larkin (left), a senior legal studies major and psychology minor, and Haley Schnapp, a criminal justice sciences major and legal studies minor, reviewed cases for the clinic last academic year.

ISU Expungement Clinic is giving people with criminal records a second chance

Last academic year, Kelly Larkin received a crash course in the moral complexities of being a lawyer through Illinois State University’s new Expungement Clinic.

Dr. George Rutherford (left) and Zach Mobille '19 working with their electronic circuit.

Students, faculty in cross-disciplinary group publish paper in prestigious physics journal

Last November, a cross-disciplinary group of undergraduate students and faculty became the first Illinois State research team in 25 years to publish a paper in the American Journal of Physics (AJP). The journal is one of the most selective physics publications in the country, with an acceptance rate for reviewed articles hovering around 35 percent.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service

Illinois State students made a #RedbirdImpact at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service event held January 21 at the Center for Civic Engagement. Students put together “I Have A Dream” cloud craft kits for children at the YWCA.