Empty seats are increasingly becoming a rare sight in SIUE’s math classes. According to Math Department chair Adam Weyhaupt, the enrollment numbers in math and statistics classes are the highest they have been in at least 15 years.
The SIUE Mathematics Department, currently housed in the Sam L. Vadalabene Center, has experienced its highest enrollment numbers […]
Michael Datcher, a New York and Los Angeles Times Bestselling author, will read from his new novel, “Americus” Monday, Feb. 16, at 12:30 p.m. in The Friends Room of the Lovejoy Library. The book depicts East St. Louis from a historical perspective.
Michael Datcher photo courtesy of Redmond
According to SIUE Emeritus professor Eugene B. Redmond, who […]
Near her three-bedroom apartment on Chicago’s South Side, SIUE Jasmeen Wellere has heard the sounds of people fighting or dealing drugs. Other times she has heard gunshots.
SIUE junior Jasmeen Wellere, a social work major, hopes to become a family law attorney after graduation. The Chicago native was awarded the College of Arts and Sciences' Stellar […]
“The Adding Machine” explores deeper questions about humanity and technology, without answering them for the audience, according to senior theater major and director Kourtnee Brenner.
"The Adding Machine," a play produced by SETO opens this week
The SIUE Student Experimental Theater Organization (SETO) has produced and will perform the play written by Elmer Rice in 1922.
According to […]
Women's Studies director Catherine Seltzer anticipates Coffee With Cool Women conversations for the Spring 2015 semester. Photo by Theresa San Luis
An unexpected, non-linear path may happen—whether in life or in a career; and in group conversations during Coffee With Cool Women (CWCW) the direction may lead likewise.
Every semester, the Women’s Studies program sets up one-hour […]
Sociology professor Alyson Spurgas interviewed women for her research to examine the relationship between low sexual desire and trauma.
Sociology professor Alyson Spurgas will present her research on women's sexuality at an inter-disciplinary conference in Barcelona, Spain. Photo by Theresa San Luis
She will present her findings at the International Congress for Critical Social Psychology: Affect, Embodiment, […]
Americans may have been blogging, perhaps a century before the invention of the internet.
SIUE History professor Jason Stacy made a presentation on Walt Whitman in December. Stacy said Whitman's writing as a journalist is similar to the writing style of today's bloggers. (File photo)
According to SIUE history professor Jason Stacy, journalists of small daily and weekly […]
More than 20 years ago, SIUE professor Christienne Hinz sat in a café in Fukuoka, Japan, studying and observing how an elderly Japanese woman interacted with her customers.
SIUE history professor Christienne Hinz is studying the cultural impact of the social roles of working class Japanese women. (Photo courtesy of Hinz)
“Grandmother,” as the woman was known […]
Ryan Evans keeps a picture of his mother in his wallet. He keeps the picture to remind him of his mother, whom he had to leave behind in the Philippines more than 15 years ago. Evans said it also serves as a reminder of the life he left behind.
Ryan Evans, a senior Applied Communications major, […]
SIUE performed before a national audience of music educators in Nashville last Fall. Photo courtesy of Smithiger.
SIUE percussion students make an impact beyond the practice rooms and rehearsals, according to director Dan Smithiger.
Last fall, a percussion ensemble of his was among 10 chosen to perform before a larger venue—a national one—at the Gaylord Opryland Convention […]
