SIUE Steel recently made a trip to Trinidad to experience the culture that birthed the steel drum. Their visit from January 25 through 31 included visiting much of the small island country, the pan yards during carnival, and playing with the Hatters Steel Orchestra.
“It was amazing for the students to really see everything, they were […]
For the last two weeks SIUE’s Department of Theater and Dance has been host to The Big Muddy Dance Company. As part of their visit the group has been working with students at all dance levels and trying to help them set practical goal for turning the skills they learn in college into a life […]
Pamela Lomelino, a University of Colorado Boulder professor, discussed a new model to approach informed consent when she spoke on campus last week.
Pamela Lomelino discussed her research paper, "Reasons to Prefer a Consent-as-Relational-Autonomy Model of Informed Consent," at SIUE last week.
Lomelino presented her paper, “Reasons to Prefer a Consent-as-Relational-Autonomy Model of Informed Consent,” to roughly […]
Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi bucked the trend set forth for traditional women artists in the 17th Century while at the same time creating marketable paintings.
Art and design professor Katherine Poole-Jones discusses the life and work of Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi.
Art and Design professor Katherine Poole-Jones lectured about Gentileschi’s work last week for Women’s Studies program […]
Last week Aminata Cairo (Department of Anthropology), was awarded the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. University Humanitarian Award. The award is given to recognize individuals who demonstrate the humanitarian qualities and philosophy of nonviolent social change such as those demonstrated by Martin Luther King Jr.
“It came as a surprise since I didn’t know I had […]
Speech communication professor Min Liu recently published an article focusing on formality marriage, or Xing Hun, between a gay man and a lesbian woman in China — a subject very few, if any, have taken on.
Liu’s research, published in the quarterly journal Sexuality and Culture, argues while people in almost every heteronormative society face pressure to […]
Imagine talking to the person directly, or indirectly, responsible for the death of a child, and publishing that conversation for hundreds of people to read.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Nancy Cambria discusses her career as a journalist during the first Coffee with Cool Women event of the spring semester. Photo by Kari Williams
That is just one […]
Reading a book is typically a sequential, conventional event. But some who read “A Visit from the Good Squad” by Jennifer Egan compared the novel to listening to an album.
English professor Valerie Vogrin discusses 'A Visit from the Goon Squad' by Jennifer Egan at the first Year of the Book event of the semester. Photo […]
University Museum Director Eric Barnett gave a lecture last week about the museum’s pre-Columbian exhibit that is currently on display at the Edwardsville Arts Center.
University Museum Director Eric Barnett gives a lecture at the Edwardsville Arts Center, where pre-Columbian pieces from the museum are currently on display.
The exhibit gives a representative example of a “wide […]
The Spring 2013 Undergraduate Show opened last week in the Morris University Center gallery. The show features works from current SIUE undergraduates in the Department of Art and Design. Entrants in the show are eligible for a variety of awards from the various art organizations at SIUE.
Luanne Rimel, the Director of Education from Craft Alliance […]
