Media Relations

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A message from President Kinzy, September 23

In the News

Kathryn Jasper speaks to Mental Floss about the secrets of paleographers

ISU alumni associations' engagement featured in Insight into Diversity

Hundreds gather to support each other as search for Jelani Day continues

Dr. Ralph Weisheit spoke with Minnesota Public Radio on violent crime in rural areas

Report

Visiting Artist Lecture: Women as makers, consumers of Early Modern art, September 28Dr. Jennifer Courts will give a Visiting Artist Lecture for the Wonsook Kim School of art at 1 p.m. Tuesday, September 28 on Zoom.

It’s Not Just About US: Right Wing Extremism in Global PerspectiveThe Fall International Seminar Series, A New Normal in a Global Context, continues. Register at IllinoisState.edu/SeminarSeries.

Cover image from Illinois State summer 2021 issue of President Terri Goss Kinzy

View the 2021 State of the University AddressPresident Terri Goss Kinzy delivered the annual State of the University Address on September 21. View the address.

Identity

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Centering Blackness in Latinx: The Fallacy of a Raceless Latinidad, September 23The talk by Dr. Maritza Quiñones-Rivera will be September 23 as part of Latinx Heritage Month.

TRIBE: New student organization for Indigenous students and alliesThe RSO TRIBE (Teaching, Reviving, Indigenizing, Beautifying, and Equalizing) works to express how Indigenous people and culture are the present, far from being relegated to the history books.

Collections for School Street Food Pantry, October 1-3 and 9Two drives will support the School Street Food pantry, one at the Alamo II from October 1-3, and a drive-thru drive at the pantry at Normal First United Methodist Church on School Street on October 9.