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SETO to perform ‘The Adding Machine’ this week

SETO to perform ‘The Adding Machine’ this week

“The Adding Machine” explores deeper questions about humanity and technology, without answering them for the audience, according to senior theater major and director Kourtnee Brenner.

"The Adding Machine," a play produced by SETO opens this week
The SIUE Student Experimental Theater Organization (SETO) has produced and will perform the play written by Elmer Rice in 1922.
According to […]

Coffee With Cool Women continues flash mentoring with unexpected learning curves

Coffee With Cool Women continues flash mentoring with unexpected learning curves

Women's Studies director Catherine Seltzer anticipates Coffee With Cool Women conversations for the Spring 2015 semester. Photo by Theresa San Luis
An unexpected, non-linear path may happen—whether in life or in a career; and in group conversations during Coffee With Cool Women (CWCW) the direction may lead likewise.
Every semester, the Women’s Studies program sets up one-hour […]

Spurgas to present research on women’s sexuality at international conference

Spurgas to present research on women’s sexuality at international conference

Sociology professor Alyson Spurgas interviewed women for her research to examine the relationship between low sexual desire and trauma.
Sociology professor Alyson Spurgas will present her research on women's sexuality at an inter-disciplinary conference in Barcelona, Spain. Photo by Theresa San Luis
She will present her findings at the International Congress for Critical Social Psychology: Affect, Embodiment, […]

Smithiger’s percussion students create impact

Smithiger’s percussion students create impact

SIUE performed before a national audience of music educators in Nashville last Fall. Photo courtesy of Smithiger.
SIUE percussion students make an impact beyond the practice rooms and rehearsals, according to director Dan Smithiger.

Last fall, a percussion ensemble of his was among 10 chosen to perform before a larger venue—a national one—at the Gaylord Opryland Convention […]

Student learning heightens during SIUE’s River Bluff Review publishing process

Student learning heightens during SIUE’s River Bluff Review publishing process

Selected submissions published in the River Bluff Review will be read Jan. 28th at the MUC Bookstore. Cover photo by Adam Mason. Image Courtesy of Vogrin.
In a literary editing course where students select poems, stories and artwork for publication, they gain essential real world experience according to English professor Valerie Vogrin.

Last fall, 18 students started […]

Sociology professor seeks to reframe textbooks on family formations

Sociology professor seeks to reframe textbooks on family formations

Sociology professor Florence Maatita plans to publish a textbook with updated marriage and family portrayals. Photo by Theresa San Luis

Through a textbook, sociology professor Florence Maatita will portray a more modern picture of how marriages and families may form in the U.S.
Tentatively titled, “Imagining 21st Century Families: Intersectionality and Connections in a Sociological Perspective” she […]

Alumni to perform comedy, enliven support for FOTAD

Alumni to perform comedy, enliven support for FOTAD

SIUE alumni will return to campus to perform “Box and Cox” in order to raise funds for Friends of Theater and Dance (FOTAD).
A cast of alumni perform a farce, "Box and Cox" in February to raise funds for Friends of Theater and Dance (FOTAD) dinner program.

According Emeritus professor Otis Sweezey, new president of the organization, […]

SIUE biology professor sends seeds to space to analyze plant growth in microgravity

SIUE biology professor sends seeds to space to analyze plant growth in microgravity

Last week, a collaboration between SIUE professor Darron Luesse, Ohio University professor Sarah Wyatt and NASA launched about 18,000 plant seeds into space.
Pictured above are Sarah Wyatt, Ohio University Professor of Plant Biology; Proma Basu, Ohio University Graduate Student; Sarah Hutchinson, SIUE Graduate Student; and Darron Luesse, SIUE Professor of Biological Sciences
Titled Proteomics Analysis of […]

High school musicians merge talents at SIUE, 29th Bi-State Honor Band Festival

High school musicians merge talents at SIUE, 29th Bi-State Honor Band Festival

Three bands consisting of top high school musicians from Illinois and Missouri took to Dunham Hall stage Saturday. Photo courtesy of Theresa San Luis.
Dozens of brass instruments, part of a band, shone under the lights onstage at Dunham Hall. So too did many more high school students in performing college level music before their teachers, […]

Ibroscheva’s focus on gender, media studies lands her Going Award

Ibroscheva’s focus on gender, media studies lands her Going Award

First ladies around the world, Hillary Clinton’s upcoming political campaign from a social media perspective and gender and the media after the fall of communism.
Mass Communications professor Elza Ibroscheva named to Going Award
These are among the research topics pursued by mass communications professor Elza Ibroscheva and she has received the William and Margaret Going Endowed […]

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