Archive for November, 2010

Collaboration of CAS and Engineering leads to patent

Collaboration of CAS and Engineering leads to patent

Testing for heavy metal in blood, urine, soil samples, etc., is time consuming — up to weeks — and the machine is expensive — between $100,000 and $150,000. Two SIUE scientists are hoping to change this.
Navarre (left) and Noble (right) converse about their invention and its future prospects.
Edward Navarre, assistant professor of chemistry in the […]

It’s not the victim’s fault; Women’s Studies brings awareness to sexual assault

It’s not the victim’s fault; Women’s Studies brings awareness to sexual assault

The Women Studies program continued its trend of hosting informative and exciting events with its “Sexual Assault on College Campuses” presentation on November 11 in Peck Hall.
The presentation featured speaker Traice Webb, psychologist with SIUE counseling services, addressing issues related to sexual assault.
Linda Markowitz, chair of the Women’s Studies program and professor of sociology and […]

Braveheart speaks to students at SIUE

Braveheart speaks to students at SIUE

What would it be like to maintain your culture as it is being wiped out? The Anthropology Department hosted a speaker to help students understand an answer to that question.
Lynn Thunder Horse Braveheart was the featured speaker for a group of students at SIUE on Thursday, November 11, 2010. Braveheart was asked to speak as […]

Atlatl club throws spears at competition

Atlatl club throws spears at competition

An atlatl is one of the first tools made by mankind. It allowed early man to throw a spear further and with greater force than using his arm without the extension. It’s a stick that is a couple feet long. The hunter would hold one end, the other end has a peg on it that […]

SIUE Percussion Ensemble debuts with Smithiger at the helm

SIUE Percussion Ensemble debuts with Smithiger at the helm

The SIUE Percussion Ensemble debuted, with its new director Daniel Smithiger, at the Percussion Ensemble Concert on November 17 in Dunham Hall Theater.
SIUE's Percussion Ensemble debuted with its new director, Daniel Smithiger, on November 17 in Dunham Hall Theater.
The ensemble consists of 15 SIUE students who represent a variety of academic disciplines.
“The ensemble itself is a […]

Dance in Concert 2010 Wows Audience

Dance in Concert 2010 Wows Audience

“Dancing is something that everyone should enjoy,” said Theater Education sophomore Joshua David. “Like Aristotle says about friendship being one soul in two bodies, we dancers are this one soul in a ton of bodies. It’s what I want to teach.”
David was one of the performers in Dance in Concert 2010, a […]

Black studies takes African American poetry to charter school

Black studies takes African American poetry to charter school

The Black Studies Program continues to educate diverse audiences on the creative contributions of African Americans with its most recent project which took African American poetry to the SIUE East St. Louis Charter School.
Photo by Howard Rambsy.
On November 15, the Black Studies Program took its mixed media poetry exhibit to the charter school with the […]

Best-Kinscherff revives the University Dance Company

Best-Kinscherff revives the University Dance Company

The University Dance Company was revived after a 13-year hiatus through the efforts of Kristin Best-Kinscherff, instructor of dance.
Blake Ammann and Erin Taul of the University Dance Company.
Best-Kinscherff, who has been an instructor at SIUE for almost two years, saw a need for SIUE”s University Dance Company to be reestablished soon after she joined the […]

Black Studies program inspires new ways of thinking about East St. Louis

Black Studies program inspires new ways of thinking about East St. Louis

On Nov. 9, the SIUE Black Studies program hosted “Ways of Thinking About East St. Louis,” an exhibit which is part of a continuing series of events under the theme, “Thinking About Urban Spaces.”
The audio and visual exhibit featured visual depictions of parts of East St. Louis as well as controversial images documenting a range […]

Poetry mashup draws crowd

Poetry mashup draws crowd

Two SIUE College of Arts and Sciences faculty drew a crowd on Tuesday, November 9 when they mashed two centuries of poetry. Eric Ruckh, historical studies associate professor, and Jeffrey Skoblow, english language and literature professor brought together the two centuries on a crisp fall day.
Reading over a constant breeze and a lawn mower, the readers […]

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