The team led by Dr. Justin Bergfield, associate professor of physics, undergraduate researcher Runa Bennett, and AFRL senior research scientist Dr. Joshua Hendrickson has uncovered how quantum interference—a phenomenon where particles behave like waves and either reinforce or cancel each other—can efficiently generate a “spin-voltage” to control the flow of quantum information.
The Illinois State University Planetarium is pleased to offer its holiday program, “Season of Light,” running weekends from December 6 through December 21. Showtimes are Fridays at 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Whether you’re starting a new job, about to enter graduate school, or still deciding what’s next, these tips from Career Services can help you as a new alum.
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.
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.
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.
The College of Arts and Sciences welcomes Katie Raisner, its first full-time director of student success, retention, and recruitment.
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.
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.
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.
