The second issue of CSD Research Briefs shares summaries of our academic and clinical faculty members’ latest projects, publications, and presentations related to audiology and speech-language pathology.
CSD Research Briefs: Issue 2

The second issue of CSD Research Briefs shares summaries of our academic and clinical faculty members’ latest projects, publications, and presentations related to audiology and speech-language pathology.
By establishing an online database called “Using.Games,” Dr. Sercan Şengün is aiming to make video games more accessible for educators who are teaching about and researching the humanities, social sciences, and the arts.
Here are the latest books from Illinois State University faculty and staff.
The National Park Service has awarded a two-year, $29,293 Save America’s Treasures Grant for the physical preservation and research of the Ueckert Circus Collection in Milner Library.
Geography Professor John Kostelnick has used his expertise in GIS mapping to examine a range of issues, from the spread of religion in a U.S. region during the 1800s to the modern-day question of how expanding broadband service could improve crop production.
Dr. Dawn M. McBride, professor of psychology, has been teaching and researching human memory for decades and explains the many tricks our minds play on us.
Illinois State Professors Drs. Pranshoo Solanki and Guang Jin are researching creative solutions to lessen the environmental impact of construction.
For his master’s thesis, Matthew Tunberg created a wireless mesh network of sensors, known as Internet of Things (IoT) devices, to help meteorologists better predict extreme weather and save lives.
Presentations and publications by Illinois State University faculty and staff members.
More than a year of planning and all six floors of Illinois State University’s Milner Library were needed to accommodate an undertaking one library staff member called “the biggest exhibit the library has done.”