Reactions: Republican debate

GOP candidates

Carl Palmer, assistant professor of the Department of Politics and Government, weighs in on the first presidential debate of the 2016 season.

Reactions: Internet from space

image of potential space internet around earth

Glen Sagers, assistant director of Illinois State’s School of Information Technology, says it may be a bit difficult to get the idea of Internet from space…ahem…off the ground in the U.S.

Ask an expert: Why can’t you tickle yourself?

Wolfgang Stein

Have you ever had a question even the Internet couldn’t answer? Some of the Illinois State community did. And we put the University’s faculty experts to work answering their inquiries.

ISU Business professor’s article nominated for top paper award

Emily Goad

Illinois State Marketing Professor Emily Goad’s paper “The Good, the Bad and the Effective: A Meta-Analytic Examination of Selling Orientation and Customer Orientation on Sales Performance” has been nominated for the Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management’s (JPSSM) 2014 paper of the year award.

GrantForward offers ISU community access to grants database

Aerial view of ISU Quad

As you have hopefully already heard, the Illinois State University campus is now subscribed to GrantForward for external funding opportunity searches and researcher profiles. GrantForward is a funding search and grant recommendation service that can help to increase your awareness of grant opportunities with a daily updated database of more than 20,000 grants from about

Collection spotlight: Smith Hall

Smith Hall in 1942

The staff at Illinois State Archives are often asked about the history of Smith Hall. Thanks to hard work of student Molly Stevenson, those records are now available for research.