Walking With My Ancestors performances October 24 and 25

Walking With My Ancestors, an original play about enslaved Africans in West African slave-holding dungeons, will be presented at 8 p.m. Saturday, October 24, and at 4 p.m. Sunday, October 25, in Illinois State University’s Kemp Recital Hall.

Schneider exhibition at University Galleries

Photographer Carrie Schneider’s exhibition, Nine Trips Around the Sun: Selected Works from 2006-2015, is on display at the University’s University Galleries, located in Uptown Normal.

Trick-or-Treat at the Manor October 31

Make Ewing Manor part of your Halloween rounds from 4-6 p.m. Saturday, October 31. The Trick-or-Treat at the Manor event will feature a princess greeting visitors from a tower and a butler at the door.

Board of Trustees to meet October 23

Fell Hall

The Illinois State University Board of Trustees will hold its next quarterly meeting at 10 a.m. Friday, October 23, in the Bone Student Center Old Main Room.

Hunter receives Fulbright Specialist grant

William Hunter, director of Illinois State University’s Center for Mathematics, Science, and Technology (CeMaST), will help to enhance STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education in Barbados, thanks to a Fulbright Specialist grant.

Book produced at ISU heading to United Nations

image from book Forget me Not

Illinois State University will have a part in a presentation to the United Nations later this month. A graphic novel produced by the University’s Publications Unit will be key to a UN presentation.