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Media Literacy Week hits SIUE

Media Literacy Week hits SIUE

Last week marked the fifth annual media literacy week. An initiative of Gateway Media Literacy Partners Inc, (GMLP), the week marks a series of lectures held around the Saint Louis area to discuss the importance of media education in society. The lectures help to promote the GMLP’s goals of improving media literacy in the Saint […]

Monkey business in Peru

Monkey business in Peru

Studying monkeys in their natural habitat is not something that everyone would want to do. For some, seeing the monkeys at the zoo is close enough. One SIUE College of Arts and Sciences professor prefers to get up ‘close and personal’ with the jungles of Peru to study her monkeys.
A callimico monkey, a species studied […]

SIUE's Dance in Concert

Dance in Concert 2011

Next Wednesday marks the opening night of the annual “Dance in Concert” performance at SIUE. The show features a collection of dance pieces from guest choreographers from the St. Louis area as well as a the work of SIUE faculty. Also featured are the winners of this years student choreographer award.
Work on the concert typically […]

Goshen Lounge Flash Mob

Goshen Flash Mob

 Last Wednesday at noon two hundred plus students broke out in synchronized dance in SIUE’s Goshen lounge. The group was a flash mob organized by dance professor Kristen Best-Kinscherff and students from SIUE’s theater and dance program.
The initial decision to create an on campus flash mob for SIUE’s students to strut their stuff was made […]

Lawyer brings Abu Ghraib knowledge to SIUE

Lawyer brings Abu Ghraib knowledge to SIUE

In a standing room only event, students and faculty had the opportunity to learn first hand about the Abu Ghraib detainee abuse case.
Michael Holley, associate lawyer for The Lanier Law Firm in Houston, Texas and former chief prosecutor of the Abu Ghraib detainee abuse case, came to SIUE to speak about the Abu Ghraib case […]

The Cast of SIUE's Rita

Rita

Marc Shapman, Richard Ladd, Kyrstan Langer, Daniel Wertz, and John Gross
Last Friday and Saturday the SIUE Opera Theatre presented Gaetano Donizetti’s Rita. This short comedy set in eighteenth century Turin was written in 1841 and first performed in 1860 after the death of it’s creator. This production of Rita was directed by Marc Schapman with […]

Women, war, and peace series continues

Women, war, and peace series continues

The Women, War, and Peace series continued this past week at SIUE with another event in Abbot Auditorium in Lovejoy Library. Part of a joint effort by Peace and International Studies and Women’s Studies, the series has been showing parts of a PBS special series called ‘Women, War, and Peace.’
On Tuesday, a small group of […]

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 […]

University Museum expands the collection

University Museum expands the collection

Museums are always striving to expand their collections to reach the broadest audience possible. On Monday, October 24, SIUE’s University Museum will expand in several different ways.**
Recently, an email was sent out from the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago stating that they were looking for a home for a collection of […]

New Wagner Gallery holds treasure trove

New Wagner Gallery holds treasure trove

Even though the area surrounding the art building is being demolished and improved, it is not slowing down the faculty of the Department of Art and Design. The Fall 2011 edition of the faculty art exhibition can be seen in the New Wagner Art Gallery.
The exhibit contains a broad collection of art mediums and styles […]

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