Media coverage
Forty two items, from 2004 to 2024. The magnetic orientation work travelled furthest, and the muscular dystrophy work has been covered steadily at home.
National and international press
- NPR, 2015. Worms know what is up, and now scientists know why.
- NBC News. First ever magnetic sensing neuron found in a worm brain.
- Scientific American. One chemical makes you crawl, another makes you swim, if you are C. elegans.
- The Scientist. A worm's magnetic sense questioned.
- Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Research highlight.
- ScienceDaily, 2015.
- University of Texas at Austin, 2015. First magnetic field sensor discovered in an animal.
- eScienceNews, 2011. Parkinsonian worms and drug identification.
Outside the United States
- Europa Press, Spain, 2015. Localizan el primer sensor de campo magnético terrestre animal.
- RAI News, Italy. La bussola nel lombrico.
- El País, Uruguay. Madre e hijo, ciencia en estudio conjunto.
- University of Victoria, Canada, 2004.
Radio and podcasts
- Science Friday. Audio.
- WGLT, NPR Illinois. Learning big things from small worms.
- Wild Connection podcast. Animal magnetism.
- LatinxCan, episode 15. Choosing to work on what you love.
- Apple Podcasts. Interview.
Local and regional
- The Pantagraph. Tiny worms attracting interest in magnetic research at Illinois State.
- The Pantagraph. Science boot camp challenges students.
- The Vidette. Leading the way in muscular dystrophy.
- The Vidette. Redbird Scholar showcases scholarly achievements.
- Illinois Science and Technology Coalition, 2020. Researchers to Know.
Illinois State University news
- GradBird Scholar: Aalimah Akinosho, February 2024.
- Image of Research competition highlights the beauty of science, February 2024.
- Students thrive with scholarship support, February 2023.
- Student spends summer researching at Yale, September 2022.
- New student organization offers support for student researchers, August 2019.
- New breakthroughs for muscular dystrophy research, February 2019.
- Research initiative award winners named, January 2019.
- Awarded a $638,000 NSF grant to study how animals detect magnetic fields, September 2018.
- Decoding the mutant all female self cloning crayfish, September 2018.
- Illinois State receives a $661,000 NSF grant for a microscope laboratory, September 2018.
- Green with honors, pride, April 2018.
- Illinois Summer Research Academy, 2017.
- Biology student pursues medical research through the honors program, February 2016.
- First receptor of the Earth's magnetic fields discovered in animals, August 2015.
- Redbird Scholar, Spring 2016. PDF.