Archive for September 24th, 2012

Columbus Elementary students retrieving weather balloon instrumentation

Geography Outreach Soars to New Heights

Last Tuesday Mark Hildebrandt and Randall Pearson of the SIUE Department of Geography teamed up with Columbus Elementary and Edwardsville High School for a synchronized weather balloon launch.  Students and faculty built, launched, chased, and retrieved balloons carrying global positioning and weather monitoring instrumentation for an over the top science experiment.

Lueck attends Kant conference in Antwerp

Lueck attends Kant conference in Antwerp

Dr. Bryan Lueck
Assistant Philosophy Professor Dr. Bryan Lueck recently traveled to Antwerp, Belgium, to attend the Kantian Ethics and Moral Life conference and present his research regarding Kantian philosophy. The conference occurred on September 20th and 21st, and Lueck was in Antwerp for the entire week of the conference.
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from […]

SIUE sponsors IAM conference

SIUE sponsors IAM conference

Workshop presenter, Peter Ael from Northern Illinois University conducted a workshop attended by several SIUE students, including Jennifer Turner.
From Wednesday, September 19th to Friday, September 21st, the Illinois Association of Museums (IAM) held its Annual Fall Conference, with SIUE as the Conference’s presenting sponsor. This year’s theme for the conference was “Museums in a Time […]

Paulett publishes book on colonial trader mapping

Paulett publishes book on colonial trader mapping

Dr. Robert Paulett
Assistant History Professor Dr. Robert Paulett has recently published a book: An Empire of Small Places: Mapping the Southeastern Anglo-Indian Trade. His work focuses on trade between the English colonials and the Native Americans during the 18th century in southeastern North America and the mapmaking that reflected the trade practices.
The book is part […]

SIUE sets summer 2013 travel study programs

SIUE sets summer 2013 travel study programs

Image courtesy of www.zootpatrol.com.
SIUE has set the destinations for its array of summer 2013 travel studies. Summer travel studies offer students an opportunity to immerse themselves in a foreign culture and gain a thorough understanding of history, places, people, and heritage that enriches traditional classroom learning.
The University’s travel studies take students to a variety of […]

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