Welcome to the Summer 2019 issue of This Month in CAS! It took awhile for the hot, summer weather to arrive, but arrive it did, and with a vengeance. As someone who grew up in Florida, I actually don’t mind the heat. The third floor of Peck gets too cold for my taste, and the […]
Starting an independent venture? In need of inspiration? Look no further than Hannah Lukowski and Ali Rauch, two alumnae of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville who recently celebrated the grand opening of the restaurant chain, Chicken Salad Chick, in Edwardsville, Illinois.
Lukowski and Rauch’s story does not begin at Chick Salad Chick though, it begins much earlier […]
“This is an issue of information credibility and accuracy, and my research really only represents the surface of the ocean–there are a lot more layers of Internet infrastructure below our social media use.”
In an era of sharing news on social media platforms and with the credibility of news being questioned all around the world, how […]
Over a hundred women gathered at the T-REX Innovation Conference Center in St. Louis, Missouri on June 27, 2019 for the St. Louis Regional Women in Geospatial Technology Summit. The event was co-organized by SIUE Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography, Dr. Susan Hume and Mollie Webb, GIS Programmer/Instructor at Washington University and […]
On June 10, Session 1 of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Summer Writing Day Camp kicked off. Now in its 37th year, the camp has provided an opportunity for youth to develop basic writing skills and participate in a full and vigorous recreational program.
“Our focus with the camp is to provide a creative outlet for kids […]
Have you stopped in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Suite in Peck Hall recently? Navigate your way to room 3409 and you will find Anne Morgan’s recent body of artwork hanging alongside the fossilized specimens that normally populate the walls there.
An undergraduate art & design major, Morgan’s series, Entdecken, closed out her […]
Take a stroll into Dr. DiSalvo’s lab and she will likely tell you about the various social interactions and behaviors of Dictyostelium discoideum, a species of soil-dwelling amoebae.
What makes them so special? Dr. DiSalvo, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, breaks it down for us, but what she has to say next might […]
“Bug Guts Lab.”
Summer is almost over and as we prepare to usher in a new semester at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, professors like Dr. Brittany F. Peterson in the Department of Biological Sciences will be carrying their summertime work over into the fall. Peterson’s research interests lie in attempting to understand the symbiotic interactions and […]
