My name is Tim Dickison. I have a BA of British and American Literature from Blackburn College, Carlinville, IL. I spent two years in Akzhaik, Kazakhstan as a Teacher of English in a Foreign Language. I am a second year graduate student in Mass Communications.
Few people know that some art is also designed to be touched and examined. SIUE houses one of these experiential art pieces. The pedestal style art stands inside Rendleman Hall near the southwest entrance. The sculptor is Terence Karpowicz, of Chicago, Ill.
Karpowicz's 'Passage of Time' in motion.
The piece was purchased with money from a grant from […]
SPEAC, the foreign languages club, won a trophy for the most school spirit during homecoming, as well as second place in the chili contest.
Geography students from SIUE were on hand to see a monstrous storm system that later formed several tornadoes in the Oklahoma City area this past summer.
GEOG429, Storm Chasing and Assessment Field Study, allows students a first hand opportunity to learn respect and to be humbled by the power of nature. Associate Professor Mark Hildebrandt […]
There is no way that I will ever get to work with a world class researcher at SIUE. This is one thought that SIUE students may have on a regular basis.
Faith Liebl, assistant professor of biological sciences, and Christina Palka, junior biological sciences major, have proved this thought to be false. Liebl, a fairly fresh […]
“What do Neitzsche, James Dean, Baudelaire [and] Jim Morrison have in common? — All of them are surrounded by an aura of rebellion and all of them seem to document in their lives the trajectory of intense rebellion and premature catastrophic end” said Professor Martin Schwab.
“No wonder the image of the comet comes up when you […]
Beginning next week, there will be a new section on This Week In CAS.
In the continued effort to promote CAS and its role in the academy, the new section will focus on the academy.
Each week, the editors will choose an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education. An interview will be conducted with several CAS […]
The SIUE Chapter of the Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honor Society and the SIUE Department of Philosophy will host the Fifth Annual Philosophy Undergraduate Conference this weekend.
The program for the event states it will run from 12:45-5 p.m., Friday, Oct. 15, and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16. The speakers for the event will present […]
A part of the Black Studies Underground and Slave Narrative exhibit presented in Lovejoy Library.
Lovejoy Library hosted pieces of the Black Studies Underground Freedoms gallery exhibit Tuesday, October 5, 2010.
Dr. Howard Rambsy uses these exhibitions as a tool for courses in Black Studies. This particular exhibit focused on Fredrick Douglas and the slave narratives.
In several […]
A tellers wicket in cast bronze from the National Farmers Bank from 1907.
A baluster in cast bronze from the Schlesinger and Mayer store from 1899.
Throughout Lovejoy Library are treasures from America’s architectural past. Louis Sullivan became the founder of what is now called the Chicago school of architecture.
Born in 1856, Sullivan and architect partner Dankmar […]
Do you think that SIUE faculty are isolated in the midwest? If you do, you are mistaken.
A book, the collaborative effort of many members of SIUE, is proof of the wide range of experiences that SIUE faculty members have. Wednesday, September 15th saw the official release and book signing of “Adventures in the Academy: Professors […]
