Sixty-five high school students from across the state (and a few from out-of-state) will take part in the 2016 Illinois Summer Research Academy (ISRA), July 10-15, at Illinois State University.
Unit: Biological Sciences
Bringing bats out of the shadows
Angelo Capparella is working hard to save a nighttime ally—bats—by uncovering their migratory patterns.
Undergraduate Pravleen Bains accepted into NIH research program
Pravleen Bains, an undergraduate researcher in professor Laura Vogel’s lab (School of Biological Sciences at ISU), has been accepted to the prestigious National Institutes of Health’s STEP UP program.
Photos: Redbird scholars at Illinois State Research Symposium
More than 500 Illinois State undergraduate and graduate students distilled months of hard work into posters that they displayed Friday at the University Research Symposium.
ISU undergraduate researcher wins presentation award
School of Biological Sciences undergraduate Haley Nichols won third place in a poster competition at Indiana University’s Animal Behavior Conference this month.
Biomathematics workshop scheduled for June
Intercollegiate Biomathematics Alliance (IBA) is hosting an undergraduate research workshop in June 2016. The workshop, named “Pre-Conference Workshop for Future Researchers” is organized by Professor of Biomathematics Olcay Akman. It is designed to gather the faculty and the undergraduate students of the IBA member institutions to initiate cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional research projects. During the workshop, faculty
ISU doctoral student receives Animal Behavior Society award
Kristin Duffield, Ph.D. student of Ben Sadd, assistant professor and Scott Sakaluk, distinguished professor, has been awarded a competitive grant from the Animal Behavior Society for her proposal entitled “Give it all we got tonight?
From Redbird to Cardinal: DeJong ready for next step as minor-leaguer
Former Illinois State baseball star Paul DeJong ’15 is finishing up his first spring training as a professional player, after being drafted last spring by the St. Louis Cardinals.
Keith Bowers earns prestigious international John Maynard Smith Prize
School of Biological Sciences graduate Keith Bowers has won the international John Maynard Smith Prize from the European Society for Evolutionary Biology.
5 things you will discover in latest Redbird Scholar
The spring issue of the Redbird Scholar is now available online and in print.