Fall 2016 Speaker Series announced

Fall 2016 Speaker Series participants

The Illinois State University Speaker Series at Illinois State will cover diverse topics from Black Lives Matter to making healthy habits stick.

Reactions: Flooding could be sign of new normal

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Between August 8 and 15, 2016, over 20 inches of rainfall fell over a large area of southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi. Latest estimates have between 40,000 and 110,000 homes damaged or destroyed across the state and 13 people dead. Climatologist and Professor of Geography Dagmar Budikova explores why these “1,000-year-storms” are becoming more frequent.