Author Archive for Tim

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.

What is TWIC?

What is TWIC?

Welcome to the first edition of This Week In CAS (TWIC). TWIC is a vehicle to celebrate the achievements of faculty and students. It is a way to communicate what is coming up in the College of Arts and Sciences, of new opportunities for advancing scholarship and pedagogical initiatives. It is also a window to […]

Jumping frogs hard landings

Jumping frogs hard landings

Frogs belly flopping and face planting is not just funny to watch. It is interesting science with major implications. Just ask the world of biology. Right now, the buzz is all about these belly flopping and face planting frogs.
Talk escalated when Dr. Rick Essner, from SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences Department of Biological Sciences, […]

The Smiling Lincoln passed by hundreds each week

The Smiling Lincoln passed by hundreds each week

A young Abraham Lincoln, beardless with a slight smile on his lips, watches diligently as people pass under his nose in the front foyer of Lovejoy Library on the SIU Edwardsville campus.
The “Abraham Lincoln” painting is known affectionately as the “Smiling Lincoln.” It is so overlooked that even those who work next to it often […]

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