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Career tips for graduating Redbirds
Unit: Physics
Fall 2024 FIREBird and BirdFEEDER Grant Winners Announced
The Office of Student Research (OSR) at Illinois State University announces the winners of the fall 2024 FIREBird and BirdFEEDER research grants. These small grants provide funding to support student research, scholarly inquiry, and innovation at Illinois State.
ISU Planetarium presents “Ghostly Tales Under the Stars”
Illinois State University Planetarium presents “Ghostly Tales Under the Stars” Friday, October 25, at 7:30 p.m., and midnight, and Saturday, October 26, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
An invitation to the inaugural Dean’s Research Challenge Symposium
All members of the College of Arts and Sciences are invited to attend the inaugural Dean’s Research Challenge Symposium on Friday, October 11, 401 Stevenson Hall. The keynote address, “Advancing Environmental Justice Research through Community Partners,” will be delivered at 11:30 a.m. by Dr. Mariela Fernandez, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
CAS welcomes new director of student success, retention, and recruitment
The College of Arts and Sciences welcomes Katie Raisner, its first full-time director of student success, retention, and recruitment.
CASNews going on hiatus
With the October 1 retirement of Debbie Fox, assistant dean for the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), who has edited and published CASNews for the past 18 years, CASNews will take a brief hiatus from publication. Look for CASNews to resume weekly publication next semester.
Physics grad student publishes class project in top journal
Using ISU’s new supercomputer, Dany Yaacoub (MS 2025) solved a 50-year-old plasma physics problem in his spring astrophysics course – that work has just been published in Physical Review Letters, the premier physics journal in the U.S.
Twelve Thousand Bombs seminar series continues in fall 2024
The Twelve Thousand Bombs seminar series on nuclear weapons will continue this fall with four eminent scholars and public figures speaking at ISU. The series, sponsored by the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, was inaugurated in 2023 and aims to raise awareness of nuclear weapons issues in the Bloomington-Normal community.
ISU Planetarium presents “Big Astronomy”
The ISU Planetarium is pleased to offer “Big Astronomy,” running weekends from September 6 through November 16. Showtimes are Fridays at 7:30 p.m., and Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Physics students working as summer interns for the Department of Energy
Four current Illinois State University students from the Department of Physics are interning this summer with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program.
