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Find out how Terry Noel is incorporating improv into his management class; laugh along with UMC’s annual April Fool post; learn more about the active shooter drill that was brought together law enforcement from all over the area, and more in this week’s ISU in the News.

UConn professor to present on theory of perception-action, April 9

Dr. Michael T. Turvey

The Department of Psychology and the Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences (CBS) Colloquium Series will present a talk titled “The Theory of Perception-Action for All Organisms: What Kind of Science Does It Entail?” with Michael T. Turvey, Ph.D. on Thursday, April 9 at 3:30 p.m. in the Old Main Room of the Bone Student Center.

Authors of Picking Cotton to headline Science and Technology Week

image of Ronald Cotton and Jennifer Thompson

Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton, co-authors of the New York Times best-selling book Picking Cotton, will be the keynote speakers for Illinois State University’s Science and Technology Week, April 6 to 10. Science and Technology Week events are sponsored by the College of Applied Science and Technology (CAST).

Talk explores Palestine as a ‘domestic place’

image of the book Three Vassar Girls in the Holyland

The U.S. once viewed Palestine as a domestic place. That will be the focus of the next Geography/Geology/Geohydrology Explorations and Observations (GGGEO) series at 3 p.m. Friday, April 10 with Molly Robey.