Students from different departments within CAST (and one student involved in Gamma Phi Circus) were selected as Robert G. Bone Scholars for the 2020-2021 academic year. The recognition is the highest campus honor given to undergraduate students. This year’s recipients answered questions about their work, inspiration, and the honor of being named a Bone Scholar.
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Bone Scholar Profiles: Kaytlin Halperin, Gamma Phi Circus
Students from different departments within CAST (and one student involved in Gamma Phi Circus) were selected as Robert G. Bone Scholars for the 2020-2021 academic year. The recognition is the highest campus honor given to undergraduate students. This year’s recipients answered questions about their work, inspiration, and the honor of being named a Bone Scholar.
Bone Scholar Profiles: Brittany Weber, Department of Technology
Students from different departments within CAST (and one student involved in Gamma Phi Circus) were selected as Robert G. Bone Scholars for the 2020-2021 academic year. The recognition is the highest campus honor given to undergraduate students. This year’s recipients answered questions about their work, inspiration, and the honor of being named a Bone Scholar.
“I knew I wanted to help our community in whatever way I could”: Health Sciences students and alumni serve on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic
“Contact tracing” is a term that the average person might not have been familiar with before 2020 and the beginning of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. However, students in the Department of Health Sciences at Illinois State University study it every year and were in a unique position to offer assistance as the need for additional contact tracers arose.
Robots and research: One faculty member gives us a glimpse into the future of the retail industry
Dr. Christina Soyoung Song, an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, focuses on research projects that are future-forward.
Growing the future of farming: Illinois Farm Bureau invests in agriculture at Illinois State
Illinois agriculture remains rooted in tradition, but emerging technologies are continually advancing the industry. For students in Illinois State’s Agriculture Department, hands-on learning opportunities are essential for merging the past and present with classroom theory and current best practices.
Dr. Traci Carte, Director of the School of Information Technology, talks recent research work
Dr. Traci Carte is an award-winning researcher and teacher who joined CAST as the Director of the School of Information Technology over a year ago. Carte earned her Ph.D. in Information Systems (IS) from the University of Georgia, spent 15 years as a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma, and served as the chair of the IS department at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.
Fashion in Film exhibition at Lois Jett Historic Costume Collection gallery
The Lois Jett Historic Costume Collection (LJHCC) in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at Illinois State University invites the public to the collection’s new exhibition, Fashion in Film: As Seen on the Silver Screen, running through August 28.
Donor Spotlight: Diane Dahlmann
Diane Dahlmann, M.S. ’77, first met Dr. Sandy Groves, Illinois State University professor emerita, while interning in Park Ridge in 1973.
The Color Experience exhibition at Lois Jett Historic Costume Collection gallery
The Lois Jett Historic Costume Collection (LJHCC) in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at Illinois State University invites the public to the collection’s new exhibition, The Color Experience, running through August 30.