Geography graduate student Adam King has raised funds to send water filters to the Philippines
Amid the Nov. 8 typhoon disaster in the Philippines and other countries around the world facing water contamination, geography graduate student Adam King is raising funds through the Wine to Water organization to send the country water filtration systems.
Recently, he recruited a number […]
Honors Program freshmen spent their first semester learning about monsters and philosophers in a class that culminated with the production of horror flicks combining the two.
Honors Program freshmen discuss their film, "A Walk in the Woods," Saturday as part of the Honors Program Freshman Seminar course on monsters.
Interim Honors Director Eric Ruckh teaches the Honors […]
Professor T.R. Carr traveled to two Finland universities to discuss his knowledge of U.S. government
Public administration and policy analysis (PAPA) professor T.R. Carr traveled to two Finland universities to present his knowledge of U.S. government from his practitioner’s perspective–as former mayor of the City of Hazelwood. He talked about healthcare and the current reform movement […]
SIUE’s diversity was one of the most attractive reasons for academic advisor Carol Garrison to bring her talents to the university.
“Certainly, there’s more transfer students,” Garrison said. “That’s really been quite a difference from the other place[s] I’ve been. People come from Illinois, but not all over the place. So, some are coming from very […]
Many philosophers argue that dignity cannot be measured, compared or experienced, but philosophy professor Bryan Lueck challenges the notion of being unable to experience dignity.
Philosophy professor Bryan Lueck
“Most value [is] relative so you can compare people to each other on the same scale, but dignity has always been conceived as a value that’s not like […]
Two SIUE organizations, the Trap and Skeet Club and the Student Wildlife and Conservation Club, raised roughly $1,600 at a recent fundraising banquet for conservation efforts.
Photo courtesy of Jamay Michael
Colton Nelson, president of the SIUE Trap and Skeet Club, said the “immediate” significance of raising funds is that habitat is “disappearing statewide.”
“The diminishing funds being […]
Foreign languages department professor Carolina Rocha received a grant to attend the Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. She hopes to propose a class to teach at SIUE about the Holocaust.
Foreign languages department professor Carolina Rocha has researched the Jewish-Latin American presence in Argentina in literature and films, and with […]
A collaboration between philosophy professor Greg Fields and an elder of a Native American tribe “brought together the best of both worlds” – native traditional knowledge and resources from professional scholarship – to create books about the native culture.
Photo courtesy of Greg Fields
Fields has worked with Pauline Hillaire, an elder of the Lummi Coast Salish […]
Graduate English student Ali Vlahos received the Outstanding Teacher Assistantship Award. She hopes to teach in correctional facilities after graduation.
Graduate student in creative writing Ali Vlahos was awarded SIUE’s Outstanding Teacher Assistantship award for teaching Composition 101 last year.
Vlahos said teaching involves more than lecturing but performing as well, especially to get students excited for […]
SIUE Alumnus Roger Starkey launched The Metro Independent in August
Roger Starkey’s time at SIUE earning his bachelor’s in mass communications has helped prepare him in launching The Metro Independent online community news source.
His time writing and editing for The Alestle, SIUE’s student-run publication, was especially helpful, according to Starkey, as he began as a reporter, […]
