Vice President of Finance and Planning Greg Alt will address the University Club (U-Club) on Friday, March 18.
Greg Alt to address U-Club
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@Midwest Conference announces addition of speakers from Nielsen and Clemson
Rob Kass, vice president of digital audio at Nielsen, and Joseph Mazer of Clemson University join the line-up of @Midwest Social Media Conference speakers.
Heidi Harbers named Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association Fellow
Heidi Harbers, an associate professor of speech-language pathology at Illinois State University, has been named the 2016 Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Fellow of the Association.
Quark gluon plasma subject of physics colloquium
David Hofman, chair of the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will present “A Frontier of Nuclear Physics: Studying the Quark Gluon Plasma” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 15, in Moulton Hall, room 214. The talk is part of the Spring 2016 Physics Colloquium.
Geography program earns national honor
Illinois State University’s Geography Program housed in the Department of Geography-Geology earned an honorable mention in the inaugural Award for Program Excellence by the American Association of Geographers (AAG).
Reactions: A new prime is born
Prime numbers are those positive integers whose only divisors are 1 and itself. (The first few primes are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, ….) Recently, a computer discovered a new prime number. Illinois State’s Sunil Chebolu of the Department of Mathematics explains the race to find large prime numbers. Chebolu: Prime numbers
Distinguished dissertation award announced
The winner of the 2016 Clarence W. Sorensen Distinguished Dissertation Award is Emerson Keith Bowers of the School of Biological Sciences. Bowers won for his dissertation titled “Family Life in the House Wren: Sibling Rivalry, Sex Allocation, and Parental Care.” Bowers’ dissertation committee included Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences Charles Thompson (co-chair) and Distinguished Professor
College’s Spring Lecture to feature English professor, March 16
Illinois State English Professor Tim Hunt will deliver the College of Arts and Sciences Spring Lecture Wednesday, March 16, at 7 p.m. in the Old Main Room in the Bone Student Center.
Digital mapping unlocks students’ STEM knowledge
A team of Illinois State researchers is conducting an innovative project in elementary schools to determine whether digital mapping can help students improve their spatial thinking skills.
Utah State professor to speak on Sherlock Holmes, March 18
The Department of Psychology and the Institute for Prospective Cognition (IPC) will present a talk, titled “Sherlock Holmes: Virtual Reality Goes Viral,” with Brian McCuskey, Ph.D., on Friday, March 18, at 2 p.m. in 48 DeGarmo Hall.
