Sponsored by the university’s Center for Bat Research, Outreach, and Conservation, the free event’s theme this year is “Always Hanging Out! The Busy Social Lives of Bats,” focusing on bat social networks and behaviors.
The Center for Bat Research, Outreach, and Conservation hosts the annual event, which has both daytime and evening sessions. Themed "A Year in the Lives of Bats," the Bat Festival's daytime events will feature experts from Indiana State University and around the country who will give talks on what bats do during each of the four seasons.
Curtis is the first woman — and second graduate, after third president William Wood Parsons — to lead the university. Earning a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction/secondary education from State in 1986 served as her professional launch pad.
In addition to the university itself contributing nearly $400 million to the economy, 85 percent of State graduates remain in Indiana to work and raise their families.
The Center for Bat Research, Outreach and Conservation at Indiana State University has been awarded a $900,000 grant from the N.C. Department of Transportation for a three-year study into the distribution
Indiana State University's department of criminology and criminal justice will officially launch its new program in intelligence analysis as early as 2019.
Indiana State University’s Center for Bat Research, Outreach and Conservation will "bust bat myths" when it hosts the 11th annual Indiana Bat Festival on Sept. 16. The festival, held on Indiana State’s campus and Dobbs Park, will include talks on bat biology, live wildlife programs, conservation exhibits and children’s activities.
The cost of a college education came with sticker shock for Nuri Rodriguez and she knew she needed to address it from the start of her freshmen year at Indiana State University.
The university contributed more than $334 million and created or supported 4 percent of all jobs in the Wabash Valley. Statewide, Indiana State's total 2016 impact resulted in 4,537 jobs with earnings of $171.94 million and output of $410.79 million dollars.
The Indiana Commission for Higher Education approved Indiana State University’s request to offer a Bachelor of Science in engineering on Thursday, June 8.
Indiana State University Professor Bill Mackey aims to combine users' behavioral causes of cybercrime with criminological research to prevent cyber attacks.
Beck's, the largest family-owned retail seed company in the United States, announced today a collaboration with Indiana State University to train pilots to operate unmanned aerial vehicles within the new legal structure established by the Federal Aviation Administration.
The Indiana State University social work department and Next Step will work with Rockville Correctional Facility in west-central Indiana, providing mentorship for women nearing release.
With a passion to advance the HPV conversation to include research related to HPV epidemiology, transmission and inclusion of oropharyngeal and other HPV-associated cancers, Professors Whitney Blondeau has teamed up with Olabode Ayodele to raise awareness and educate the university community.
Doctorate of Athletic Training student Emma Nye is researching LGBTQ issues within her profession and working to make the workplace and her campus more inclusive.
While newborn screening is one of the national public health services that has transformed preventive healthcare, there are certain ethical and legal concerns about what happens to the babies’ genetic information beyond the tests.
Had it not been for a long-term relationship and friendship with a Benedictine nun and their shared anti-war position regarding El Salvador decades ago, Georgianna Duarte may have ended up penning articles like this and never made it to Indiana State University.
The many faces of bats — and their extraordinary diversity in flight, form and function — are the focus of the 10th Annual Indiana Bat Festival at Indiana State University and Dobbs Park Nature Center on Saturday, Sept. 24.
Indiana State University is once again among the national leaders when it comes to civic engagement, according to The Washington Monthly's 2016 rankings.
Indiana State’s Community School of the Arts is offering a First Steps in Music certification class for those interested in learning about music education for young children.
University aims to help unlock accessibility to higher education by offering high school students micro-scholarships that reward taking small steps to college readiness.
Congressional, government and industry leaders will discuss ramifications that the upcoming presidential election could have on insurance regulation at the 12th annual Networks Financial Institute Insurance Public Policy Summit March 17 on the 8th floor of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.
Clocking in at work at 9 a.m. and being out by 5 p.m. isn't the perfect lifestyle for everyone and surely not for 2008 Indiana State University graduate Chris Penn.
Once an endangered species, the now abundantly familiar white-tailed deer offer clues into genetic bottlenecks and animal behavior while providing valuable training for student researchers at Indiana State University.
While balancing all their obligations is a challenge, these Sycamores say their athletic training makes them more focused in their research to learn why bacteria becomes resistant to antibiotics.
Faculty-student duo creates chemotherapy-resistant cell lines to compare the cells to those that are not resistant and to study how to reverse the resistance or to make them sensitive to another drug.
Anti-electrostatic hydrogen bonding systems have the same charge, yet nevertheless stick together because of the hydrogen bonds, students discover.
The 11th annual summit will be March 17 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. The summit in Washington, D.C. is organized by Indiana State University's Networks Financial Institute with support from Faegre Baker Daniels.
Lone wolf terrorist attacks are not on the rise as popular culture might lead one to believe — but the attacks are more personal, use high-velocity firearms and targeting military and police.
The ability to sequence the human genome is technology that has developed only in the past couple of decades, so a student-led research project is looking at the role of genetic counselors and whether telegenetics is used to close accessibility gaps for patients.
Researchers hope to answer questions about bat mortality, whether there are certain areas of the country or types of landscapes that are more affected.
Some school counseling students from Indiana State's Bayh College of Education students will head to Speedway on Saturday ahead of the Indy 500 to alert business owners to issues around human trafficking. The students undertook a similar project, in cooperation with SOAP (Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution) in advance of this year's Super Bowl.
The theme of the summit is “Confronting New Challenges in U.S. and International Regulation.” Participants will take part in wide-ranging discussions of the Federal Insurance Office's recent report to Congress and other new initiatives.
This news release includes information from health care policy experts and researchers who spoke about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) at a forum organized by Networks Financial Institute at Indiana State University.
An Indiana State University graduate student discovered the summer roosts in North Carolina of the federally endangered Virginia big-eared bat. Until this summer no one knew where the bats raised their young.
Research by an Indiana State University doctoral student found that students did equally well on a test whether reading from a digital book or a printed one.
A research project at Indiana State University into Capri Sun has found five types of fungus.
Pulitzer Prize-nominee Michael Shelden's latest book follows the life of Winston Churchill from 1901 to 1915.
Researchers have discovered a toxin in community-associated MRSA that kills human cells.
Schools should embrace technology and encourage students to bring their own computing devices, whether it’s a smartphone, tablet or a laptop, according to one Indiana State University professional.
Mark Hamm, Indiana State University professor of criminology, has received a more than $247,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to study lone wolf terrorism.
Carl Klarner, associate professor of political science, made his forecast on July 15 that Obama would receive 51.3 percent of the popular vote and have a 57 percent chance of winning the Electoral College against his opponent Mitt Romney.
When representatives from the technology company Apple visited Megan Farnsworth's school in June, the Indiana State University graduate student was excited when she realized she knew what they were teaching.
Indiana State University's Cunningham Memorial Library's special collections department buys 20 letters that Eugene Debs wrote to his nephew, Robert Heinl, from 1893 to 1925.
The phytol-derived compound could be used to boost immunity in cancer patients, in veterinary clinics, aid in fighting infectious agents and be used in preparing laboratory agents and diagnostic kits.
In the study, researchers found that almost 22 percent of college students reported being cyberbullied while 15 percent reported being bullied.
Two teams of Indiana State students spent their summer working in the southern Appalachian Mountains researching the federally endangered Indiana bat, the little-known eastern small-footed bat and acoustic activity of bats.
After contractors uncovered an previously unknown cemetery, Indiana State University Associate Professor Shawn Phillips and 15 students stepped in to help and learn from the past.
The greatest threat for retaliation in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death comes from "homegrown" jihadists rather than "Al-Quaida Central," ISU criminology professor Mark Hamm said.
Bassam Yousif, associate professor of economics at Indiana State University, grew up in Iraq until he emigrated to the United Kingdom when he was 14. He says for conditions in Iraq to improve, the nation must address the void left from millions of Iraqis fleeing the nation.
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