Archive for January 7th, 2013

SIUE Faculty Member Donates $100,000 To Biology Department

SIUE Faculty Member Donates $100,000 To Biology Department

On December 11, 2012 SIUE Faculty gathered to receive a generous donation from long time SIUE biology professor Ralph Axtell. The one hundred thousand dollar donation will be used to set up an endowment fund for the Department of Biological Sciences and help support research efforts in the Ecology and Organismal Biology Teaching Laboratory.
Axtell holds […]

SIUE Theater Students Raise Hell (and Heaven) Over Winter Break

SIUE Theater Students Raise Hell (and Heaven) Over Winter Break

While many SIUE students and faculty were enjoying a much deserved break over the holidays several were hard at work constructing sets for the March production of Edwin Penhorwood’s, “Too Many Sopranos.”
“Too Many Sopranos,” will go on stage for two nights only (March 22 and 23) although the students performing are already working on perfecting […]

SIUE Theater Education Student's Capstone Project Kicks off the Missouri Thespian Conference

SIUE Theater Education Student’s Capstone Project Kicks off the Missouri Thespian Conference

Theater Education major Alex Moore’s production of Tennessee Williams’ “Summer By the Lake,” was chosen to kick off this year’s Missouri State Thespians Conference.
Moore originally graduated SIUE in 2007 after which he worked professionally on various production in Chicago before making the decision to return to SIUE to obtain his teaching certification. Moore has been […]

Jason Yu Department of Mass Communications

Jason Yu Visits JMComm 2012

Jason Yu from the SIUE department of Mass Communications spent December third through fourth in Singapore attending and presenting at the Annual International Conference on Journalism and Mass Communications (JMComm).
With around 100 attendees JMComm is a relatively small international communications conference covering a wide variety of topics. The theme for the 2012 conference was, “At […]

January's novel for Year of the Book: A Visit from the Goon Squad

January’s novel for Year of the Book: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Written by Jennifer Egan in 2010, “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” is a collection of short interconnected stories centered around a group of aging rock music executives that stylistically bridges the gap between a collection of shorts and a conventional novel. The work focuses on themes such as the prices of success, the unpredictability […]

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