The Department of Politics and Government is hosting a retirement reception honoring Dr. T.Y. Wang, chair and professor for the department, from 3:30-6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in the Founders Suite inside Bone Student Center.
Dr. Touré Reed, professor of history, will deliver the Spring College Lecture on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, at 5 p.m., in the Circus Room of the Bone Student Center. His talk, “Is it Race or Racism?: Why Binary Explanations for Inequality Have Failed Black Americans,” is free and open to the public.
Learn more about the collaborative research projects that received inaugural Advancing Research and Creative Scholarship (ARCS) program awards.
Topics will range from representing texts in digital forms using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) to using data analysis and visualization tools to curating digital collections and exhibits using the Omeka platform.
Learn about each recipient and how to attend the 2024 Alumni Awards program.
We are sad to announce the passing of Dr. John Dossey. In his distinguished career as a mathematics educator, Dossey was a vital member of CeMaST, Illinois State University, and the mathematics education community as a whole.
Acting Provost Dr. Ani Yazedjian presented awards to the 2023 Outstanding University Teaching Award winners in January.
Four graduate student researchers will represent the College of Arts and Sciences in the university-wide Three Minute Thesis competition on February 29 at 6 p.m. at the Normal Theater. This event is free and open to the public. Please come and support our students!
Mathematics student Joseph Wittrock worked as an intern in summer 2023 for the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL), which is charged with developing technologies to effectively and efficiently maintain DoD facilities.
The crescendo of the fall 2023 semester was the eagerly anticipated OSF-ISU Data Science Competition, titled “OSF 30-Day Readmission.” The competition, jointly supported by OSF and Illinois State, challenged 14 teams to create predictive models determining whether a patient discharged from OSF HealthCare would be readmitted within 30 days. The competition was intense, with six finalists emerging from a pool of strong contenders, boasting impressively close scores.
