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Dr. Lisa F. Szczepura to present Distinguished Professor Lecture, October 29
Illinois State University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Lisa Szczepura will present her Distinguished Professor Lecture, “The Many Facets of Metals: Minerals, Bulk Metals, Clusters and Applications.” The lecture will explore the diverse roles metals play in nature, industry, medicine, and materials science, Thursday, October 29, at 5 p.m. in the Old Main Room at the Bone Student Center.
Riaz publishes on Rohingya refugee repatriation
Distinguished Professor Ali Riaz has published a chapter on the Rohingya refugees’ repatriation from Bangladesh to their homeland of Myanmar. The chapter is titled, “The Quest for Rohingya Repatriation: What Happened and What’s Next?” The chapter is included in the volume “Rohingya Repatriation: An Elusive or Achievable Agenda?” published by Routledge and edited by Mahbubur Rahman, Abdur Rob Khan, and Md. Rizwanul Islam.
Grand Challenges bring a global lens to Teaching and Learning in CSD
How might the most pressing challenges in global higher education shape the way we prepare future speech-language pathologists and audiologists? That question is at the center of a new paper by Dr. Jennifer Friberg-Fort, Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) professor and Cross Endowed Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Student Researcher Accomplishments
Then and now: Wren Crew
The Wren Crew is a group of six to eight students, under the guidance of Illinois State faculty, who spend countless hours observing and collecting data from 820 nestboxes used by wrens at the Sears-Butler tract, the United Methodist Church East Bay Camp, and the Merwin Preserve of the ParkLands Foundation on the Mackinaw River, 15 miles from Bloomington-Normal.
ISU audiology faculty and student highlight clinical outreach at ILAA conference
Nearly everyone two Illinois State Illinois State University audiology faculty and students presented at the Illinois Academy of Audiology (ILAA) Mini Conference, sharing clinical outcome data from Special Olympics hearing screenings and discussing how volunteer outreach impacts both athlete care and student clinical training.
2026 Valle Gianni field school advances Northwest Bolsena Archaeological Project
When Maria Sanso Font arrived in the This past May and June, Illinois State University anthropology, history, and art history students took part in archaeological excavations at the site of Valle Gianni near Italy’s Lake Bolsena. The field school is part of a larger project directed by Illinois State faculty Dr. Kathryn Jasper (history) and Dr. Lea Cline (art history) since 2018. Anthropology faculty member Dr. Abby Stone joined the project in 2024 and took over as field director the following year.
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