The Illinois State University Planetarium will present its holiday program Season of Light, running weekends from December 3 to December 18.
Planetarium to present Season of Light
Month: November 2021
Student Success Spotlight: John Awaitey
Graduate student John Awaitey shares his recent accomplishment before graduation – landing a full-time job.
The Cheung, Brown, Phi Sigma Award for Student Publications rewards research and discovery
Dr. H. Tak Cheung began his Illinois State career in 1979 as an assistant professor of microbiology in the area of immunology. He became a full professor in 1989 and department chair in 1997. Cheung became the executive director of the School of Biological Sciences in 2008.
Time to review your W-4
It is time for employees to review their current Form W-4 (Employee’s Withholding Certificate) status for preferred changes in filing status and/or withholding needed for tax year 2022.
#ObsidianVoices celebrates artistic excellence in the African diaspora, December 10
Drawing attendance from four continents, #ObsidianVoices provides a space to gather online in celebration of Black literature and arts.
Career Services launches new website strategy
Career Services and Interactive Web and Communications developed a new site that allows Career Services to increase its digital engagement with its constituencies and build its brand as a service provider.
MacArthur Grant recipient and Biased author Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt to speak, November 18
Social psychologist Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt will present her talk, “Biased,” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 18, in the Prairie Rooms of the Bone Student Center on the Illinois State University campus.
Kudos to Dr. Alison Bailey
Dr. Alison Bailey was recently interviewed about her newly published book, The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance (2021). Her interview appears on the Examining Ethics podcast produced by The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. In her book she invites the reader to “wade slowly and mindfully into the weight of whiteness, and to attend to the ways white supremacy has misshapen our nation, our communities, and our humanity.” The episode featuring her interview can be found here: https://examiningethics.org/2021/11/the-weight-of-whiteness-with-alison-bailey/. Bailey is a Professor of Philosophy at Illinois State University where she directs the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.
Image of Research submissions deadline December 3
Students are asked to create or capture one compelling, static image of their research with a narrative for the 2022 Image of Research competition.
School of Music professors unite conducting and virtual reality with RibbonsVR
In 2018 Dr. Roy D. Magnuson completed a user-friendly version of solsticeVR, a virtual reality tool that enables users to compose music. While his work on the “musical sandbox” proved to be a success, just one year later, development on an offshoot of this project began: a virtual reality tool conducting.
