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Big vision for tiny particle

An ISU nano lab is creating the building blocks of future tech.

Dr. Mahua Biswas and her student researchers are fabricating nanoscale patterned materials that have the potential to be utilized in emerging applications such as compact circuit boards, data storage devices, and solar cells.

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Connect With Your Passion

Shira Archie presents research from her summer internship at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

Research Spotlight

Graduate students across campus have the opportunity to be highlighted and to compete for monetary awards through the #GradBirdScholar program.

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Collaborate with faculty and engage with the research you're most interested in. Get the tools you need to experience new opportunities at Illinois State and beyond.

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This has just been extraordinary. I’ve learned so much in the past six to seven weeks. It was really tough. There’s a lot of little things that you don’t know about research until you do it.

- Joe Hoberg, geology major who participated in the Office of Student Research’s Summer Undergraduate Research Support Program

Healing veterans

Dr. Antony Joseph researches how wartime blasts damage service members’ hearing.

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Edible insects

In her new book, Dr. Gina Hunter challenges readers to explore why humans did, do, and should eat insects.

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Collaborate with researchers at Illinois State to help address the world's greatest challenges.

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Research News

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Research and Honors, March 28, 2023
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Two students win national American Association of Physics Teachers scholarship 
Dr. Aondover Tarhule, ice president for Academic Affairs and provost at Illinois State (second, right), meets with students presenting at the 2022 University Research Symposium.
University Research Symposium, April 14, 2023

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Healthy start

Dr. Kelly Laurson researches children’s health in order to identify telltale signs of the potential for problems later in life.

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