Category: General CAS Stories

Thinking about space, CAS's 2012 Spring Colloquium approaches

Thinking about space, CAS’s 2012 Spring Colloquium approaches

So you think you know what space is, what it means? Begin putting your brain to the task of thinking about what the word actually means and plan to spend several days in March having those concepts and definitions challenged by the students faculty and staff of SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS).
This is […]

Rambsy examines literary and cultural history in new book

Rambsy examines literary and cultural history in new book

What is the connection between the Harlem Renaissance and the Hip-Hop movement of the 80’s and 90’s? According to Howard Rambsy, associate professor of English Language and literature in SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), it is the Black Arts Movement of the 1960’s and ’70’s.
Cover art of The Black Arts Enterprise and the […]

River Bluff Review seeks creative writing and art

River Bluff Review seeks creative writing and art

Cover art from the 2011 edition of the River Bluff Review. photo courtesy of SIUE's Department of English Language and Literature.
Art and creative writing students still have a chance to be a part of the 20th edition of the River Bluff Review (RBR), according to Valerie Vogrin, associate professor of English language and literature. The deadline […]

Bio-Ethics stimulates discussion on disabled

Bio-Ethics stimulates discussion on disabled

Sara Goering. photo courtesy of The University of Washington.
Friday, Jan. 27, the latest installment of the Philosophy Department’s Medicine in Action series stimulated frank questions from the audience on the quality of life paradox in lives of people with disabilities. The speaker, Sara Goering, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Washington spoke on […]

CAS development director develops donations

CAS development director develops donations

Craig Steiner, photo courtesy of Steiner.
SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) has a new development director tasked with developing different income streams for the College. Craig Steiner, CAS development director, brings a wealth of experience with him to the position.
Steiner, born and raised–and now raising his children–in Swansea, Ill, began his ‘career’ with SIUE […]

Manhattan Room display in MUC gallery

Manhattan Room display in MUC gallery

In an effort to gather more attention for the different departments in the SIUE College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), a new project was proposed by Associate Dean Larry LaFond, according to Denise DeGarmo, associate professor and chair of political science.
“Larry LaFond had this brilliant idea to have departments put up displays to get them […]

SIUE Cuba-Caribbean initiative gains momentum

SIUE Cuba-Caribbean initiative gains momentum

An initiative originating from the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is officially underway at the SIUE due to the foresight of Dean Aldemaro Romero.
“The idea came to my mind when I became the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and found out that there had been many of the […]

Choir commemorates Cuba-Caribbean Center commencing

Choir commemorates Cuba-Caribbean Center commencing

Twenty members of the SIUE choir travelled to perform a selection of songs in a series of concerts in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. This inaugural exchange between Cuba and the SIU system is part of the Cuban-Caribbean Center initiative.
The initiative stems from an idea that Aldemaro Romero, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences […]

Schlau speaks to PSA about daughter's' deaths

Schlau speaks to PSA about daughter’s’ deaths

Just before Thanksgiving, the Political Science Association (PSA) hosted an event that touched on a subject that has been in the headlines in central Illinois for several years. Kim Schlau, a representative of two organizations, Pursuit Safety and Focus Driven, spoke on the deaths of two of her daughters.
PSA asked Schlau to speak at SIUE […]

University Museum spans campus

University Museum spans campus

There is art all over the SIUE campus thanks in small part to a French minister of culture. While this idea may seem odd to most people, it has been a focus of the University Museum, and its current director, Eric Barnett, for many years.
Eric Barnett, director of the University Museum (right), examines some of […]

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