Archive for December 3rd, 2012

Anishinaabe "tinkle cone" dress, c. 1930. The garment was originally bright red and features dentallium shells, glass beads, metal conches and the cones, hand-made from rolled tin cans. The red labeling of the cans can be seen from inside the cones. Photo courtesy of Mark Proudfoot.

Image of rare Anishinaabe regalia from Willmott’s work featured in American Indian Art Magazine 2013 calendar

Anthropology professor Dr. Cory Willmott will have a photograph of a rare regalia dress from the Anishinaabe people featured in the American Indian Art 2013 calendar. The photograph is from an article that Willmott had published in the Summer 2012 issue of  American Indian Art Magazine, which featured articles by members of the Great Lakes […]

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

December’s novel for Year of the Book: Holidays on Ice

December’s novel for the department of English Language and Literature’s Year of the Book is Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris.
Holidays on Ice is a collection of essays about Christmas. The collection includes “SantaLand Diaries,” in which Sedaris gives an account of his experiences working as an elf at Macy’s; “Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol,” […]

Fall 2012 BFA Exhibition

Fall 2012 BFA Exhibition

The 2012 fall bachelors of fine arts exhibition opened last week.  The exhibition features work from SIUE’s graduating BFA Art and Design students.  This semesters participating students are: Chris Spangler, Nichole Lance, Kalin Haydon, Michelle Leitheiser, and Justin Ulrich.

New Approaches to the Study of Marine Mammals: Available Now

New Approaches to the Study of Marine Mammals: Available Now

Dean Aldemaro Romero’s fifteenth book is now available. Titled “New Approaches to the Study of Marine Mammals,” the book is a collection of articles documenting modern and cross disciplinary methods for the study of marine mammals.
When approached to be the editor for the book Romero’s one condition was that the could co-edit the book with […]

Assessing the Family Support Scale

Assessing the Family Support Scale

Last month Jayme Swanke of the SIUE Department of Social Work presented a paper at the annual Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) conference in Washington DC.
The paper titled, “Measuring Social Support Among Kinship Caregivers: Validity and Reliabilty of the Family Support scale,” was a collaborative work between Swanke and researchers at East Carolina University […]

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