Archive for September, 2012

SIU and University of Havana sign exchange agreement

SIU and University of Havana sign exchange agreement

Members of both universities attending the signing ceremony (from left to right): Thomas Cheng, Paul Sarvela, Ana Romero, Julie Furst-Bowe (SIU), Raúl Rodriguez, Jorge Hernandez (UH), Rita Cheng, Aldemaro Romero (SIU), Hilda León Castellanos, Lourdes Díaz Fernandez, Milagros Martínez, and Carmen Castillo (UH). Picture by Cory Byers.
September 26, 2012, marked a significant step for Southern […]

Stacy receives NEH grant for Whitman research

Stacy receives NEH grant for Whitman research

Dr. Jason Stacy
Associate Professor of U.S. History Dr. Jason Stacy will be part of a 3-year $330,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Stacy is receiving a $41,000 subcontract from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, which received the grant, and he will be collaborating with Dr. Kenneth Price.
The grant starts in August 2013, […]

Coffee With Cool Women features genome analyst Elise Waldman

Coffee With Cool Women features genome analyst Elise Waldman

Elise Waldman speaks with undergraduates at Coffee With Cool Women
SIUE’s Women’s Studies program, directed by Dr. Catherine Seltzer, kicked off its first in a series of “flash mentoring events” called Coffee With Cool Women on Thursday, September 27th, 2012. The Coffee With Cool Women series, organized and conducted by Seltzer, invites successful women to share […]

Women's studies website, blog offers virtual community

Women’s studies website, blog offers virtual community

Image courtesy of http://barnard.edu/headlines/womens-studies-then-now
The Women’s Studies department at SIUE offers graduate and undergraduate women the opportunity to share their insights, speak their minds, and contemplate the historical and contemporary situations of women in society through both academic and extracurricular endeavors.
Besides Coffee With Cool Women, various panel discussions, and informative lectures, the department is reaching out […]

October's novel for Year of the Book: Satrapi's Persepolis

October’s novel for Year of the Book: Satrapi’s Persepolis

Image courtesy of www.onthewingsofbooks.comOctober’s novel for the department of English Language and Literature’s Year of the Book program is Persepolis: The Story of a Childhoodby Marjane Satrapi.
Persepolis is an autobiographical graphic novel that details Satrapi’s childhood and early adulthood in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution. In the novel, main character “Marji” lives her […]

Masculinities in Contemporary Argentine Popular Cinema

Masculinities in Contemporary Argentine Popular Cinema

Carolina Rocha’s new book “Masculinities in Contemporary Argentine Popular Cinema” is now on the shelves. An in depth look at the shift in the representation of male gender roles after 1989 when Argentina adapted to a free market society, the book focuses on films where male characters experience a loss of power and how this […]

Women's studies hosts IWIL panel

Women’s studies hosts IWIL panel

The Hon. Barbara Brown addresses students at the IWIL panel
On Wednesday, September 26, at 6 p.m., SIUE’s Women’s Studies program hosted a panel with members of the Illinois Women’s Institute for Leadership (IWIL) in Peck Hall.
The guest lecturer was the Hon. Barbara Brown, who is the Randolph County Circuit Clerk. The panelists at the event […]

Columbus Elementary students retrieving weather balloon instrumentation

Geography Outreach Soars to New Heights

Last Tuesday Mark Hildebrandt and Randall Pearson of the SIUE Department of Geography teamed up with Columbus Elementary and Edwardsville High School for a synchronized weather balloon launch.  Students and faculty built, launched, chased, and retrieved balloons carrying global positioning and weather monitoring instrumentation for an over the top science experiment.

Lueck attends Kant conference in Antwerp

Lueck attends Kant conference in Antwerp

Dr. Bryan Lueck
Assistant Philosophy Professor Dr. Bryan Lueck recently traveled to Antwerp, Belgium, to attend the Kantian Ethics and Moral Life conference and present his research regarding Kantian philosophy. The conference occurred on September 20th and 21st, and Lueck was in Antwerp for the entire week of the conference.
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from […]

SIUE sponsors IAM conference

SIUE sponsors IAM conference

Workshop presenter, Peter Ael from Northern Illinois University conducted a workshop attended by several SIUE students, including Jennifer Turner.
From Wednesday, September 19th to Friday, September 21st, the Illinois Association of Museums (IAM) held its Annual Fall Conference, with SIUE as the Conference’s presenting sponsor. This year’s theme for the conference was “Museums in a Time […]

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