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Research

Crab lab

Study takes ISU to forefront of climate change research

Dr. Wolfgang Stein’s lab is collaborating on an innovative international research project examining how heat waves are affecting crabs’ nervous systems. Read the article.

Connect With Your Passion

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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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Student Research

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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Dr. Wolfgang Stein works with then-undergraduate Charlotte Steiger ‘24 in the Crab Lab. Students like Steiger are conducting many of the experiments for Stein’s Kavli Foundation-supported research project.

There are a lot of fantastic opportunities all over the place at ISU. And because ISU isn’t a massive school, I feel like it’s easier to get those opportunities.

- Joseph Wittrock, a math student who won the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory’s Research Assistant of the Year and the U.S. Department of Defense’s Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship.

Fueling innovation

The Department of Mechanical Engineering’s founding dean, Dr. Nesrin Ozalp, is empowering the next generation through her groundbreaking research on hydrogen power

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Quick Facts

$31.6 M External funding awarded to Redbird scholars
350+ Student presenters at annual Research Symposium
169 Master's, doctoral, and graduate certificate programs and sequences
2,000+ Undergraduates earning credit for research

Renaissance man

Dr. Avimanyu “Avi” Datta is a professor and researcher of strategic management and entrepreneurship, the Gary R. Gemberling Faculty Scholar in Business, director of the George R. and Martha Means Center for Entrepreneurial Studies … and an award-winning science fiction writer.

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Relationship doctor

Dr. Susan Sprecher, a social psychologist, researches human relationships, from the most intimate relationships between lovers to the casual bonds formed by strangers.

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