On this episode of The PodCAST: Kara shares highlights from the CAST Hall of Fame induction.
The PodCAST’s Four Minute Fridays: CAST Hall of Fame induction 2025
Unit: Horticulture Center
Video: Blooming for 20 years: Horticulture Center welcomes community for annual Autumnal Festival
From volunteers to students, the people behind ISU’s Horticulture Center are preparing to mark its 20th anniversary during the Autumnal Festival.
Ruth Burke merges art and nature on Redbird Buzz
Ruth Burke, an assistant professor of video in the Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts at Illinois State University, is an interdisciplinary artist who collaborates with animals in her creative practice.
Ag art: Ruth Burke uses oxen team to create pollinator-friendly earthworks
Wonsook Kim School of Art Assistant Professor Ruth Burke is using a pair of oxen to create earthworks that will honor the land and the Indigenous Peoples who called it home.
Awestruck: Horticulture Center’s artists-in-residence inspired by ‘the wonder of nature’
For this year’s annual Autumnal Festival, held September 14-15 at the Horticulture Center in north Normal, event organizers are leaning into the University’s intrinsic beauty with the theme “Awestruck: The Wonder of Nature,” designed to inspire visitors with marvels of the natural world through captivating botanical, artistic, and natural exhibits.
10 ways to have fun in Bloomington-Normal during summer 2024
Bloomington-Normal, ranked No. 3 on College Values Online’s list of “Best Small College Towns America,” is heating up with summer events and activities.
Growing hope: Alum cultivates purpose from life marred by tragedy
From the darkest depths of death and despair, Dr. Theoneste “Theo” Nzaramyimana, M.S. ’17, discovered life in a garden.
Horticulture Center grows interdisciplinary collaboration during Earth Month
April is Earth Month, and Illinois State University’s campus is blossoming with opportunities to celebrate nature. The seeds for one such initiative were planted by senior environmental systems science and sustainability (ESSS) major Haley Cepek.
Donor spotlight: Betty Norris Fairchild Children’s Discovery Garden
A generous gift from Betty Norris Fairchild’s estate—facilitated by Fairchild’s daughter Barbara—has endowed the Children’s Discovery Garden and created a scholarship for agriculture students.
Autumnal Festival to celebrate ‘native roots’
Visitors to the 18th annual Autumnal Festival at Illinois State University’s Horticulture Center, September 9-10, will experience what it was like in Illinois, before 1800, to stand amid a towering prairie.
