Archive for October 10th, 2011

New professor presents research on intersex identity in the medical profession

New professor presents research on intersex identity in the medical profession

SIUE welcomed Assistant Professor Georgiann Davis into the Sociology Department this fall and students were invited to get a glimpse into her research last Wednesday. She presented her talk on the tender and little-researched subject of intersex persons and their reactions to the medical profession, as well as society as a whole. The Women’s Studies […]

Professors Eric Ruckh and Jeffery Skoblow on the quad

Professors howl on quad

 
On October 7th 12:30pm 2011 two SIUE professors took to the quad armed only with a small bongo drum and two copies of a poem that had been charged with obscenity 56 years earlier–the bongo: irrelevant to this story; the poem: “Howl” by Allen Ginsberg. Taking their stance on grassy knoll Eric Ruckh, associate professor […]

Coffee with Cool Women: Dail Chambers

Coffee with Cool Women: Dail Chambers

 
Chambers
SIUE’s Women Studies Department and Black Studies Department, as a co-sponsor, welcomed Dail Chambers as last week’s guest for the series “Coffee with Cool Women.”
Dail Chambers, founder of the Yeyo Arts Collective
 
The series has been successful since the start and is aimed at helping students gain insight from professionals about their lives and careers in […]

Rodin - The Walking Man

Rodin – The Walking Man

Auguste Rodin's "The Walking Man."
Visitors to SIUE’s Lovejoy Library pass by a masterpiece by the hundreds each day without even knowing the cultural and monetary value of the art.  The sculpture, which is much larger than life, ties many points in history, past and present, together.
The sculpture is “The Walking Man” by Auguste Rodin.  It […]

‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ opens this week at Dunham

‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ opens this week at Dunham

Sometimes people think a small lie won’t build up into a bigger and bigger lie, but Oscar Wilde’s play, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” tells a different — and usually true — story.

The comical play opens this week as SIUE Theater and Dance Department’s first main play of the season. The two main characters change […]

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