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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 […]

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 […]

Tracy Ashton, Photo courtesy of maryannhalpin.com

SIUE Alum Tracy Ashton on Raising Hope

On Tuesday January eighth SIUE Theater and Dance graduate Tracy Ashton made a guest appearance on the Fox series, “Raising Hope.”
Born and raised in southern Illinois, Ashton graduated SIUE in 1981 as a theater and dance major. She looks back on the experience with fond memories,
“College is a womb like experience, everything is just right […]

Visitors at the opening of the SIUE Spring Graduate show 2013 (photo courtesy of Howard Ash)

Spring 2013 Graduate Art Show

The Spring 2013 Graduate Art Show opened last Tuesday in the Morris University Center Gallery. The show features the work of recent SIUE Art and Design graduates from all disciplines.
This years show was juried by Michael Eastman. Eastman is a world renown photographer perhaps best known for his architectural photography.

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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