Identifying bones. Major pong. Instrument petting zoo.
Chancellor Furst-Bowe and Dean Romero checking their heart rates after various stimuli at the Biology booth.
These are just a few of the many activities intended to show students what a major or interdisciplinary minor in the College of Arts and Sciences can offer. They are also part of the […]
SIUE opera performers Sarah Paitz and Ben Rardin with Tyler Green looking on
SIUE’s classically trained operatic singers juxtapose their performances with armpit sniffing, book-slapping and nerd-mocking high school playacting. It smells like teen spirit; it reeks of high school awkwardness; but it’s to the music of one of George Frideric Handel’s most well-known operas- “Acis […]
Students interact with The Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe during last Thursday evening's show
Last week, The Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe, the only traditional Japanese puppet troupe active outside Japan, held a workshop and show at SIUE.
Professor Martin Holman, of the University of Missouri – Columbia Japanese Studies Program, directed his troupe of 11 students, who are […]
Dr. Jason Stacy
History professor Jason Stacy began collaboration with the Walt Whitman Archive last month to help students and professors alike “study how Walt Whitman became Walt Whitman.”
Before Whitman became known for his writing style and prose, he put pen to paper as a journalist for more than a decade. Stacy is in the first […]
Physics professors Mohammad Yousef and Edward Ackad
Physics professors Mohammad Yousef and Edward Ackad developed a method to predict the behavior of the Egyptian strain of hepatitis C virus, which has no known cure.
By studying the American genotype, they built a 3-D structural model that could lead to advances in medicine and, ultimately, a cure. Their […]
SIUE's new NMR spectrometer for the chemistry department is currently being assembled at Science Building West
Like a stove to a kitchen—that how’s crucial the installation of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (NMR) is to Science Building West according to Chemistry department chair Michael Shaw.
Shaw said without the $272,000 instrument, the chemistry department could not be […]
Despite what Disney portrays, being a princess is a lot more work than hosting tea parties – at least according to historical studies professor Katie Sjursen’s research.
Photo courtesy of Katie Sjursen
Sjursen’s studies on medieval noblewomen, for which she recently received an American Fellowship Grant from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), show women of […]
SIUE Music Prof. John Bell judged the 2013 DCI World Championships
SIUE Band Director John Bell
The Blue Knights. The Boston Crusaders. The Colts—just a few of the many drum corps groups that rehearsed countless days and evenings for a year, traveled thousands of miles across the country competing until they reached the highly anticipated event: the […]
SIUE’s master of social work program had “record enrollment” for the 2013-2014 academic year, according to Kathleen Tunney, social work department chair.
The program received its largest number of applicants – a roughly 33 percent increase, according to Bryan Duckham, master of social work program director.
Duckham said there were more than 90 applicants to the program, […]
Environmental sciences professor Melissa Chan was one of three Americans awarded a fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. As a result, she will study new research techniques and the impact of the 2011 Fukushima radioactive leaks in Japan that resulted from an earthquake and a tsunami.
Photo courtesy of Melissa Chan
Chan said […]
