Archive for January, 2013

Jennifer Huffman and Omar Olivas working with students at SIUE

Jennifer Huffman and Omar Olivas Visit SIUE

For the past three weeks the SIUE Department of Theater and Dance has been host to special guest Jennifer Huffman and Omar Olivas. During their time at SIUE the two dance instructors gave guest lectures in all levels of dance classes and worked with advanced students to set a piece for this spring’s “Dance in […]

screen shot from SIUE ad club's 1013 ADDY entry

SIUE Advertising Club wins ADDY

The SIUE Advertising club won a St. Louis ADDY for their 2012 entry “A Gift of Hope.”
The club’s entry was originally created for another competition where the entrants created thirty second commercials for A Gift of Hope (AGH) organ and tissue donor network. AGH is a non profit organ procurement organization that helps educate the […]

Anthropology professor publishes guest blog about 'preppers'

Anthropology professor publishes guest blog about ‘preppers’

If you’re prepared for a zombie apocalypse, you’re prepared for anything.
At least that is what anthropology professor Chad Huddleston has found through his research with the St. Louis-based Zombie Squad.
“Their story is that they’re an anti-zombie squad, but really in reality they’re a 501(c)3 charitable organization, and they’re very interested in educating the public about […]

Coffee With Cool Women series begins today

Coffee With Cool Women series begins today

Women’s Studies program chair Catherine Seltzer started bringing real-world conversations to campus about a year and a half ago when she created the Coffee with Cool Women series.
“I was talking with colleagues and friends and asking my successful friends how they got to where they are, and part of what they said was it wasn’t […]

University of Denver professor discusses Turkey as a political power

University of Denver professor discusses Turkey as a political power

Joseph S. Szyliowicz, a graduate school professor at the University of Denver, spoke about Turkey as a political power in the Eastern Mediterranean as part of the International Speaker Series on campus.
Joseph S. Szyliowicz, a graduate school professor at the University of Denver, discussed Turkey's role as a political power as part of SIUE's International […]

SIUE Steel Performing at annual CAS Breakfast

SIUE Steel Sets Out for Trinidad

This Friday SIUE Steel will take a trip the Caribbean island of Trinidad. The group will be visiting during the annual “Panorama” festival in which steel bands from around the world come together to share and compete during the lead up to Carnival.
SIUE Steel was founded in 2010 by Daniel Smitiger (Department of Music). The […]

Hangzhou Leifeng Tower, image courtesy of hillyareas.blogspot.com

High Aims for Hangzhou Study-abroad Program

On May 12, 2013, Jason Yu (Mass Communications) and Tom Lavallee (Foreign Languages and Literature) will take a group of students to Hangzhou, China for a five-week travel-study program. The program consist of two courses: “International Advertising” and “History, Culture, and Languages of China.”
The Hangzhou program is unusual in that students will spend most of […]

DeGarmo researches human security in occupied Palestinian territories

DeGarmo researches human security in occupied Palestinian territories

When Political Science Department Chair Denise DeGarmo first visited the occupied Palestinian territories in 2011, what she discovered was not quite what she learned about in her studies.
Photo courtesy of Denise DeGarmo
“I’d read about it. I studied it as an international relations scholar, but what I had learned is very different from what I saw […]

Anthropology, Theater and Dance collaboration featured in Anthropology News

Anthropology, Theater and Dance collaboration featured in Anthropology News

A collaboration that began with mutual interests between professors in the anthropology and theater and dance departments is the subject of a recent article an SIUE professor published in an anthropology newspaper.
Anthropology professor Aminata Cairo’s article, “Anthropology and Theater Very Likely Bedfellows,” was published in Anthropology News, the newspaper of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
“Since […]

CAS online courses continue to increase

CAS online courses continue to increase

The College of Arts and Sciences has more than doubled its summer online course offerings since 2010, at which time 24 online courses were offered.
By this summer, 51 classes will be offered. Larry LaFond, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said the college has been “at the forefront” of recent increases in […]

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