Denise DeGarmo, department chair and associate professor political science, will be officially awarded with the SIUE Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award, Tuesday, February 8, 2011.
“The selection committee was impressed with the range of service contributions that [DeGarmo] has provided as well as the leadership role you have assumed in [DeGarmo’s] service activities,” according […]
SIUE’s Graduate Student Social Work Association (GSSWA) has made its effort to support and uplift those in the community a never-ending commitment. The organization’s most recent event was a successful recreation drive for Community Living, a nonprofit organization in Saint Charles, Mo.
GSSWA Chair Tracy Mathias poses with some of the items collected during the organization's […]
SIUE’s Department of Social Work may be one of the only social work departments in the country that offers students an opportunity to gain practical experience via simulated client labs, according to Larry Kreuger, department chair and professor of social work.
Hsin-hsin Huang, assistant professor of social work, and Kristina Schiber, social work graduate student, role […]
SIUE can now claim to have one of the largest campus nature preserves in the U.S., according to several SIUE faculty members.
Kurt Schulz, professor of biological sciences, is excited about the nature preserve, as are his fellow faculty members.
“This is entirely a winning proposition for the university. There are very few campuses that have […]
Chemistry professor Michael Shaw will receive the Paul Simon Teacher-Scholar Award March 30, 2011 according to an email release by SIUE Associate Dean Christa Johnson.
“The SIUE Paul Simon Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award is presented to a faculty member in order to recognize the role of the interdependence between research and teaching,” said Johnson.
The award is an […]
SIUE offers several internal, competitive grants to support research and creativity amongst faculty and staff at the institution. Seed Grants for Transitional and Exploratory Projects (STEP) is a grant program offered, on a competitive basis, to “support research and creative activities … intended to encourage faculty to initiate new research directions or new research projects,” […]
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) is a 2010 recipient of a National Science Foundation ADVANCE IT-Catalyst award. Catalyst awards are designed to “support … efforts to conduct institutional self-assessment activities, …in order to identify specific issues in the recruitment, retention and promotion of women faculty in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) academics within an […]
While many students may be hurried to wrap up classes for the fall semester so that they can relax and enjoy the holidays, LaNette Heselton, junior social work student, took the initiative to contact a local shelter and spread some holiday cheer after her fall classes ended.
Heselton, reached out to Lydia’s House, a shelter for […]
Thousands of miles away from home is not how any student wants to spend the holidays. Yet, across the nation, international students are often left in the United States. They usually cannot afford to travel home to see their families. Mehrdad Shadmehr, a graduate student in the chemistry program from Iran, originally felt […]
Now that the holiday season has begun, student organizations at SIUE are hard at work spreading holiday cheer throughout the local and neighboring communities. The Graduate Student Social Work Association (GSSWA) is one such organization seeking to meet the needs of the less fortunate this holiday season.
GSSWA Chair Tracy Mathias leads the way to the […]
