In a standing room only event, students and faculty had the opportunity to learn first hand about the Abu Ghraib detainee abuse case.
Michael Holley, associate lawyer for The Lanier Law Firm in Houston, Texas and former chief prosecutor of the Abu Ghraib detainee abuse case, came to SIUE to speak about the Abu Ghraib case […]
Marc Shapman, Richard Ladd, Kyrstan Langer, Daniel Wertz, and John Gross
Last Friday and Saturday the SIUE Opera Theatre presented Gaetano Donizetti’s Rita. This short comedy set in eighteenth century Turin was written in 1841 and first performed in 1860 after the death of it’s creator. This production of Rita was directed by Marc Schapman with […]
The Women, War, and Peace series continued this past week at SIUE with another event in Abbot Auditorium in Lovejoy Library. Part of a joint effort by Peace and International Studies and Women’s Studies, the series has been showing parts of a PBS special series called ‘Women, War, and Peace.’
On Tuesday, a small group of […]
Exploring methods to use contaminated soil to grow mushrooms is all in one day’s work for a professor at SIUE. Zhi-Qing Lin, associate professor of biological sciences, is using soil with high levels of selenium to grow mushrooms in a lab at SIUE.
Lin, the recipient of a P3 level grant of more than $14,500 from […]
Medicine in Action (MIA) kicked off its speaker series with a fairly controversial topic – informed consent and refusal.
The series is hosted by the Philosophy Department and is funded by a grant from the Excellence in Undergraduate Education. The series is designed to take a look at issues at the crossroads of ethics, biology, and […]
[ October 28, 2011; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] MIA kicks off this Friday, October 28 from 3-5 pm in PH 1402.
The first talk in the series by Dr. Rory Kraft will be on informed consent and refusal in general and through the lens of the case of young Daniel Hauser, who—along with his family—wished to refuse conventional medical treatment for his cancer.
Museums are always striving to expand their collections to reach the broadest audience possible. On Monday, October 24, SIUE’s University Museum will expand in several different ways.**
Recently, an email was sent out from the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago stating that they were looking for a home for a collection of […]
Erika Meitner
Poets usually cut a fairly broad swath with their poems. Erika Meitner, assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech, is no exception to this rule.
Meitner came to SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) as a guest speaker. The Department of English Language and Literature at SIUE invited Meitner to share some of her […]
Last Wednesday, October 19, American Voices, a performing arts group dedicated to sharing culture from around the world, held their “Music from the Middle East” workshop at SIUE campus. The workshop featured live musical performances, a presentation of the group’s activities around the world, and a segment from “Camp Unity” a documentary filmed about the […]
Even though the area surrounding the art building is being demolished and improved, it is not slowing down the faculty of the Department of Art and Design. The Fall 2011 edition of the faculty art exhibition can be seen in the New Wagner Art Gallery.
The exhibit contains a broad collection of art mediums and styles […]
