The 2020-2021 academic year will be remembered as a time when flexibility and patience were essential to fulfilling the University’s mission.
A Day in the Life: Learning and teaching during COVID-19
Unit: Horticulture Center
UMC wins 4 golds and 9 awards overall at 2021 CASE competition
Illinois State University Marketing and Communications (UMC) received nine awards, including four golds, in the 2021 Pride of CASE V competition for work created for partners across campus.
It’s the great pumpkin—or is it?
Pumpkin. You either love it or you hate it, but you can’t avoid it this time of year.
A virtual tour of Illinois State University’s Horticulture Center
Please join the director of the Illinois State University Horticulture Center, Jessica Chambers ’93, as she guides guests through the beautiful gardens of the Center in a two-part virtual video series.
ISU biology students continue prairie research for international study
The ability to adapt to change is integral to success in turbulent times. After years of working in the advertising industry in Las Vegas, Jackson Edwards has returned home to start a new career. The Bloomington native now studies conservation biology at Illinois State and researches soil and plant diversity under Dr. Diane Byers, associate professor of Evolutionary Ecology.
They rock: Students update Horticulture Center garden
Looking at the bright yellow fist-sized blooms of marigolds, Katie Robinson said she was happy. Happy? She was in the second week of classes kneeling in the dirt, in the middle of a heat wave. But the senior horticulture major was right where she wanted to be.
#RedbirdScholar students use grants to spend summer researching
This summer, 27 students received the new Undergraduate Research Support Program grant provided by the Office of Student Research. To honor the inaugural summer of the grant, we have featured five student researchers and their projects.
Horticulture Center shares tips for vegetable gardening success
The Center’s vegetable garden demonstrates the wide variety of food that can be grown in Central Illinois as well as different solutions every gardener can put into practice at home.
Make and Take Wreath Making, November 20-21
Create a one-of-a-kind wreath or evergreen basket arrangement, using fresh greens from Nick Pershey’s Christmas Tree Farm. All proceeds go to the ISU Horticultural Center.
Modern-day plant explorer, grassland conservationist Dwayne Estes to speak, October 17
Dwayne Estes, expert botanist and visionary for the preservation of the grasslands in the Southeastern U.S. will present a talk about modern-day plant exploration and conservation.
