This is the third story in a five-part series on the School of Biological Sciences’ trip to a Costa Rican rain forest. STATEside is along for the adventure as the students and professors of the Rain Forest Ecology class spend 10 days at La Selva Biological Station.
A group of mating millipedes set off a scramble Friday afternoon just off a trail in a Costa Rican rain forest. A half-dozen Illinois State biology students dug into the mud to gather the squirming arthropods for graduate student Kristin Duffield’s research project.
The group of Illinois State biology students and faculty arrived Thursday in Costa Rica and will spend 10 days at La Selva Biological Station.
Alumnus Bill Tracy remembers where he was 50 years ago on November 22 when President John F. Kennedy was shot. The English education major sat in a second floor classroom in Schroeder Hall on that fateful Friday afternoon.
Isaiah Roberts, a marketing sales major at Illinois State who plans to go to law school, will make history when he walks at December commencement at 7,055 days old. He will be the youngest grad on record.
Illinois State students are mobilizing to collect donations and raise money to help the victims of the deadly tornadoes and storms that ravaged several Central Illinois communities.
Illinois State alum Sean Johnson’s family home was one of several hundred destroyed or damaged in Washington, Illinois, where one person also was killed in Sunday’s storms.
There are lots of anecdotes in alumna Pat McKinzie-Lechault’s new book that show how far female athletes have come since the 1960s. But it’s the one about the strength of a woman’s heart that jumps off the page.
Plan to watch the Redbird football and basketball teams in action this season on Comcast SportsNet Chicago? Keep an eye out during the commercial breaks.
Along with the glut of consumer teasers that are now coming your direction, you’ll soon have the November issue of Illinois State’s alumni magazine at your door as well.
