Author Archive for Tim

My name is Tim Dickison. I have a BA of British and American Literature from Blackburn College, Carlinville, IL. I spent two years in Akzhaik, Kazakhstan as a Teacher of English in a Foreign Language. I am a second year graduate student in Mass Communications.

Students and alumna read persona poetry in bookstore

Students and alumna read persona poetry in bookstore

[Video] SIUE College of Arts and Sciences students personified a number of different items this past Thursday in the Morris University Center bookstore. The students read from a new anthology published in February that Stacey Brown, assistant professor of English language and literature, co-edited with Oliver de la Paz. The anthology, entitled  ‘A Face to Meet the […]

Ken Waldman and the Secret Visitors: From Madison County to Moose Pass

Ken Waldman and the Secret Visitors: From Madison County to Moose Pass

SIUE’s Arts and Issues series hosted an eclectic group of musicians Wednesday night last week.

Ken Waldman and the Secret Visitors: From Madison County to Moose Pass played a concert in the Meridian Ballroom in the Morris University Center at SIUE . The concert was a mix of music, poetry, and dance.
Waldman, self-titled Alaska’s traveling fiddler-poet, […]

Winfield speaks about journey

Winfield speaks about journey

[Video] Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Winfield was on campus last week to speak to SIUE pre-law students and SIUE charter school students about the path that led her to the US attorney’s office.
Jennifer Winfield with an SIUE student and charter schools students.
Winfield spoke to a group of about 15 students about how she began […]

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney speaks to pre-law, students

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney speaks to pre-law, students

Jennifer Winfield. photo courtesy of CID St. Louis, MO.
SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Pre-Law program and Student Legal Services are co-sponsoring Jennifer Winfield, special assistant U.S. attorney from the eastern district of Mo. to speak to students at SIUE Wednesday, February 22. The event will take place at 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. […]

Anthology of persona poetry published - public preview

Anthology of persona poetry published – public preview

Persona poetry has a long history in literature, but, according to one SIUE College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) professor, there has never been an anthology focusing only on the genre. She has changed this. There will be a public reading in the Morris University Center bookstore of a selection from the anthology on Thursday, […]

Managing SIUE’s cultural resources - CRSP

Managing SIUE’s cultural resources – CRSP

SIUE’s campus is uniquely located at on the geographic and archaeologic hotspot, according to two College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) faculty members. Because of its unique location near bluffs and a floodplain, and its size of 2,600 acres, the campus offers a great deal of opportunity for archeological exploration.
Anthropology students work a site on […]

Social networks--a history and philosophy topic?

Social networks–a history and philosophy topic?

Ask yourself what Facebook has to do with history and philosophy. If you said not too much, perhaps you need to think again. Two professor’s in SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences would not only disagree with you, they would probably suggest that you sign up for their course.
A collage of various social network logos. […]

Visiting professor models compounds containing nitric oxide

Visiting professor models compounds containing nitric oxide

A visiting professor in SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Chemistry Department is working to inspire his students to study chemistry through his research projects. Myron Jones, visiting assistant professor of chemistry, comes to CAS from Oklahoma where he had been teaching at several community colleges following the completion of his Ph.D.
Professor Myron Jones […]

Nardi’s ‘monoliths’ represent solar markers

Nardi’s ‘monoliths’ represent solar markers

While there are few pieces of artwork that are meant to be touched, SIUE’s University Museum offers several. On the southwest corner of the Student Fitness center sits a large henge.  It may be cold outside yet this winter, but this installation artwork on campus begs for human interaction.
The installation is entitled “On the Eclipse” […]

Thinking about space, CAS's 2012 Spring Colloquium approaches

Thinking about space, CAS’s 2012 Spring Colloquium approaches

So you think you know what space is, what it means? Begin putting your brain to the task of thinking about what the word actually means and plan to spend several days in March having those concepts and definitions challenged by the students faculty and staff of SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS).
This is […]

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