As 56 undergraduate students split into fake families for a daylong exercise about what it’s like to live in poverty, Raven Davidson’s character was there to steal, cajole, and coerce them into illegal behavior.
Unit: College of Arts and Sciences
Video: 6 years after accident, ISU student goes back to school
Six years ago, Illinois State sophomore Alex Shelton was in a coma. Doctors told his parents he only had a 10 percent chance of living after suffering a traumatic brain injury in an accident.
Video: Teamwork fuels Illinois State solar car
The students on Illinois State University’s Solar Car Team spent the past year planning, building, and testing their new car.
Video: ISU math robots help cancer clinic kids
Ph.D. student Megan Nickels wants to know how children with cancer and other chronic illness can learn math through educational robotics.
Video: Students help Special Olympics athletes
Audiology mentor Ryan Mulligan ’11 and a team of student volunteers are helping Special Olympics Illinois athletes as they compete in the Summer Games at Illinois State.
Video: Physics students send pumpkins airborne
The Illinois State Trebuchet Team may not have been able to defend its first-place title at the Morton Pumpkin Chuckin contest this fall, but students are not just sitting on their hands.
Planetarium Program on the Northern Lights Sept. 16 – Nov. 12
The Northern Lights will come to the Illinois State University Planetarium with the program Aurora, running weekends from Sept. 16 – Nov. 12. There will be no shows Oct. 28-29.
Planetarium Presents 3, 2, 1… Blast Off!
The Illinois State University Planetarium will present the family favorite 3-2-1… Blast Off!, running May 18 – July 22. Show times are 2 p.m. on Wednesdays and 7:30 p.m. on Fridays.
ISU Undergraduate Research Symposium April 15
Close to 200 Illinois State University undergraduate students will participate in the annual University-wide showcase of research, scholarship and creative endeavor.
Geography-Geology Ridgley Lecture March 25
Joseph P. Stoltman will deliver the Department of Geography-Geology Douglas Clay Ridgley Lecture Geography: Future, Past, and Present at 4 p.m. on Friday, March 25, in the Bone Student Center Old Main Room.