Archive for September 15th, 2013

Annual CAS Hands On Day scheduled for Sept. 17

Annual CAS Hands On Day scheduled for Sept. 17

Identifying bones. Major pong. Instrument petting zoo.
Chancellor Furst-Bowe and Dean Romero checking their heart rates after various stimuli at the Biology booth.
These are just a few of the many activities intended to show students what a major or interdisciplinary minor in the College of Arts and Sciences can offer. They are also part of the […]

Acis and Galatea, SIUE’s student opera, toppled with high school caricature portrayals

Acis and Galatea, SIUE’s student opera, toppled with high school caricature portrayals

SIUE opera performers Sarah Paitz and Ben Rardin with Tyler Green looking on
SIUE’s classically trained operatic singers juxtapose their performances with armpit sniffing, book-slapping and nerd-mocking high school playacting. It smells like teen spirit; it reeks of high school awkwardness; but it’s to the music of one of George Frideric Handel’s most well-known operas- “Acis […]

Students get hands on Japanese puppetry during Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe workshop and show

Students get hands on Japanese puppetry during Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe workshop and show

Students interact with The Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe during last Thursday evening's show
Last week, The Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe, the only traditional Japanese puppet troupe active outside Japan, held a workshop and show at SIUE.
Professor Martin Holman, of the University of Missouri – Columbia Japanese Studies Program, directed his troupe of 11 students, who are […]

History professor begins collaborative research with Walt Whitman Archive

History professor begins collaborative research with Walt Whitman Archive

Dr. Jason Stacy
History professor Jason Stacy began collaboration with the Walt Whitman Archive last month to help students and professors alike “study how Walt Whitman became Walt Whitman.”
Before Whitman became known for his writing style and prose, he put pen to paper as a journalist for more than a decade. Stacy is in the first […]

Physics professors pioneer method to study untreatable strains of hepatitis C virus

Physics professors pioneer method to study untreatable strains of hepatitis C virus

Physics professors Mohammad Yousef and Edward Ackad
 
Physics professors Mohammad Yousef and Edward Ackad developed a method to predict the behavior of the Egyptian strain of hepatitis C virus, which has no known cure.
By studying the American genotype, they built a 3-D structural model that could lead to advances in medicine and, ultimately, a cure. Their […]

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