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Students, alumni to connect with health care recruiters

Students are excited to connect with recruiters at the Healthcare Professions Fair.

The Healthcare Professions Fair on November 16 brings students from all majors together to connect with recruiters from health care organizations.

Seven win 2017 Excellence Awards

l to r: Steve Halle, Rebekka Darner Gougis, Karen Coats, Rob Whalen, Suejung Han, and Brent Simonds. Not pictured: Ron Gifford

Seven College of Arts and Sciences faculty and staff were honored with College Excellence Awards during the fall dean’s address and awards ceremony September 12.

Six CAS students named 2017-2018 Bone Scholars

2017-2018 CAS Bone Scholars with Dean Simpson

Six students with majors in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) have been named 2017–2018 Bone Scholars.

Student’s biology research recognized as ‘new and notable’

Craig Gatto and Kevin Stanley looking at a computer screen

Three years of experiments at Illinois State University, combined with over a dozen trips to collaborating laboratories at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, led the research of student Kevin Stanley, Ph.D. ’17, to be featured as “new and notable” in Biophysical Journal.

Kristin Duffield receives international research travel grant

Kristin Duffield graduate student in the school of biological sciences recently had the honor of being awarded a Godfrey Hewitt Mobility Award from the European Society of Evolutionary Biology.

New faculty profile: Ryan Paitz

Ryan Paitz joins the School of Biological Sciences at Illinois State University as an assistant professor.

Dean Simpson participates in summer research

Dean Simpson helps Prof. Charlie Thompson record data.

One of the College of Arts and Sciences’ greatest points of pride is the engagement between our faculty and students.

NSF MRI (Major Research Instrumentation) pre-proposal deadline is September 10

Image of the Illinois State University seal with the words Gladly we learn and teach.

The National Science Foundation accepts only two proposals per educational institution for their Major Research Instrumentation Program, which provides opportunities to substantially improve research capabilities.

Redbird scholars March for Science

Marchers pass by the flagpole on Illinois State's Quad during the March for Science in Normal. (Photo by Megan Kathol Bersett)

Illinois State faculty members and students from across campus attended the March for Science in Normal, which ended on the University’s Quad, and one that attracted more than 40,000 people to downtown Chicago.

Scientists on the March!

Wolfgang Stein speaking at the March for Science in Normal

Earth Day 2017 found scientists and their supporters marching and speaking out for facts and evidence-based policy decisions on a global scale, with more than 610 marches worldwide