Archive for March, 2014

SIUE to host annual statewide mathematics conference

SIUE to host annual statewide mathematics conference

SIUE will host the ISMAA Annual Meeting this weekend. Photo courtesy of Adam Weyhaupt
Emerging ideas in mathematics and its teachings will be explored on campus by visiting lecturers and student presenters in a statewide event.
SIUE will host the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Illinois Section of the Mathematical Association of America (ISMAA) March 28-29.
Mathematics and […]

Annual Probst Lecture continues tradition, brings in international award-winning scientist

Annual Probst Lecture continues tradition, brings in international award-winning scientist

Dr. Erick M. Carreira will speak on campus as featured scientist for the 38th annual Probst Lecture Series. Photo courtesy of Luesse.
The 38th annual Probst Lecture Series will feature chemist Dr. Erick M. Carreira at the Meridian Ballroom 7 p.m. on Monday, March 24.
Carreira conducts research and is a professor of organic chemistry at the […]

Woodrow Wilson Foundation awards Harris Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship

Woodrow Wilson Foundation awards Harris Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship

History professor Jessica Harris will bring awareness to racial inequality movements in the western U.S. due to receiving the Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Harris received the award, for which she will take a one-year sabbatical beginning in the fall, to turn her dissertation on the activism of black […]

CAS students participate in Model Illinois Government

CAS students participate in Model Illinois Government

Four students represented SIUE in its first showing at Model Illinois Government earlier this month where college students from across the state debated legislation.
College of Arts and Science students Logan Creen, Laura Grace, Kendra Weinhoffer and Alex Lovett attended Model Illinois Government in SIUE's first showing. Photo courtesy of Denise DeGarmo
Junior political science major Kendra […]

“The Caretaker” provides intensely pitted portrayals among three-man cast

“The Caretaker” provides intensely pitted portrayals among three-man cast

Three-man cast of theater majors play two brothers and a homeless man in tense-filled play, “The Caretaker,” by Harold Pinter, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Photo courtesy of Bozark

“The Caretaker,” a 1960 play by Harold Pinter, will be performed by three students in the theater department who depict two brothers and a homeless […]

Gardens director grows community, campus involvement

Gardens director grows community, campus involvement

Jane Drake, director of The Gardens, left SIUE March 7 to relocate to Billings, Mont., with her family.
Drake said it has been “such a privilege to steward the development of our beautiful gardens at SIUE.
“Our gardens represent such a unique opportunity, not just for our institution, but for our broader Metro East community,” Drake said. “I’d […]

Documentary on skateboarding park receives widespread recognition

Documentary on skateboarding park receives widespread recognition

Skateboarders under Kingshighway Bridge in St. Louis were filmed by mass communications senior Ashley Seering and instructor Cory Byers for a documentary that made the Broadcast Education Association's award list. The award ceremony will be held April in Las Vegas. Photo courtesy of Seering
A skatepark documentary filmed by a mass communications instructor and student has […]

Physics professor sheds light on LASERS to high school students

Physics professor sheds light on LASERS to high school students

Cahokia High School students edged closer to catch a glimpse of the multiple laser beams emitted back and forth between two mirrors which shone through the smoke.
Prfofessor Glassman looks on as Cahokia High School students engage in a demonstration that reveals an aspect of LASERS using a lamp light and magnifying glass. Photo by Theresa […]

University Museum displays Art of Africa pieces at the Edwardsville Arts Center

University Museum displays Art of Africa pieces at the Edwardsville Arts Center

Art of Africa exhibit at the Edwardsville Arts Center will feature interactive activities for visitors Poster courtesy of Noelle Norris
The University Museum will exhibit Art of Africa pieces at the Edwardsville Arts Center (EAC) featuring new interactive aspects.
University Museum curators and graduate assistants Noelle Norris and Carrie Smith have taken on the yearlong task due […]

University of Connecticut professor addresses black existential philosophy

University of Connecticut professor addresses black existential philosophy

Luke Skywalker and Frederick Douglass have one commonality – fighting for freedom.
Lewis Gordon, of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, lectured to roughly 60 students and faculty about black existential philosophy. Photo by Kari Williams
Freedom is a condition “through which you can have human flourishing,” according to Lewis Gordon, philosophy and African-American studies professor at […]

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