Category: Environmental Sciences

Gov. Quinn Presents $23 Million Check to Fund Science Building

Gov. Quinn Presents $23 Million Check to Fund Science Building

Gov. Pat Quinn presented a $23 million check to SIUE last week for the renovation of the old Science Building within the College of Arts and Sciences. The funds will completely renovate the existing building connected to the recently completed, brand new science facility. The building’s completion will enable it to become one of the […]

New Science Building opens for fall semester

New Science Building opens for fall semester

More than three years after the initial ground breaking for SIUE’s new, $52 million Science Building – equipped with upgraded labs, additional space and energy efficient components – the building is complete and ready for student, staff and faculty use.
SIUE students Katie Bennett and Dallas Wright conduct experiments at chemistry professor Chin-Chuan Wei's research lab, […]

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CAS Events Round Up

The College of Arts and Sciences has a busy schedule of events coming up between now and the end of the semester. Coming up this Monday and Tuesday is this year’s CAS Colloquium titled, “Thinking About the Book,” with a wide variety of lectures and events by SIUE faculty will look at the role of […]

A Ravine in the Bluebell Woods

Essner, Minchin publish on bird populations, habitats in Sweet William, Bluebell and Bohm

Biology professors Dr. Rick Essner and Dr. Peter Minchin have recently published two articles about their bird survey research that they have conducted in SIUE’s Sweet William Woods, Bluebell Woods and neighboring Bohm Woods Nature Preserve.
Drs. Essner and Minchin observing wildlife with students
The two articles are “A Survey of Bluff Forest Avifauna in Southwestern Illinois” […]

Frey-Spurlock and Adkins host information session on SAG, SOS

Frey-Spurlock and Adkins host information session on SAG, SOS

On Wednesday, Oct. 10, Sociology and Criminal Justice Assistant Professor Dr. Connie Frey-Spurlock and Sustainability Officer Kevin Adkins offered an informational session for SIUE students entitled “Student-Faculty Synergy and Institutional Change: A Story of Sustainability and Feminist Methodology.” The event was co-sponsored by the Women’s Studies department and the Sustainability Advisory Group (SAG).
The presentation offered […]

Chan brings NIEHS experience to SIUE

Chan brings NIEHS experience to SIUE

SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences added a skilled researcher to the Environmental Sciences ranks last semester. Pui-Ling ‘Melissa’ Chan, assistant professor of environmental sciences, came onboard last semester.
Chan, originally from Malaysia, spent a number of years at the Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan, pursuing her doctoral degree, as well as two years of post-doctoral […]

EPA grant explores mushrooms, selenium

EPA grant explores mushrooms, selenium

Exploring methods to use contaminated soil to grow mushrooms is all in one day’s work for a professor at SIUE. Zhi-Qing Lin, associate professor of biological sciences, is using soil with high levels of selenium to grow mushrooms in a lab at SIUE.
Lin, the recipient of a P3 level grant of more than $14,500 from […]

Speaking of ethics - ethics speakers to speak

Speaking of ethics – ethics speakers to speak

When it comes to taking ethics from the classroom to a professional field, the connection is often dropped, according to one professor at SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS).  Alison Reiheld, assistant professor of philosophy, plans on fixing that for a variety of students at SIUE through a speaker series this academic year.
Alison Reiheld […]

Fragile life, artistic endeavors

Fragile life, artistic endeavors

For most, a sight of a bee triggers anxiety and a flight response. For Brigham Dimick, the insect triggers art.
 Dimick, area head of drawing at SIUE, is displaying some of his artwork currently at the University of Missouri St. Louis’ (UMSL) Gallery 210. Most of the art involves a concept drawn and built up by […]

Welcome back SIUE CAS to This Week In CAS - from the TWIC Editors

Welcome back SIUE CAS to This Week In CAS – from the TWIC Editors

As many of you know, This Week In CAS (TWIC) launched its first edition in October 2010.  TWIC is part of an effort by Aldemaro Romero, Dean of SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), and his staff, to diversify the way the CAS communicates the stories, adventures, and successes within the CAS community, as […]

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