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.

Ferd Lang hangs in MUC

Ferd Lang hangs in MUC

Art sometimes pushes the understanding of space. To achieve different effects, artists will push the edge of their art in order to push the concepts of space and negative space. The Morris University Center (MUC) houses one of these types of paintings that pushes these concepts.
Hanging near the book store is a rather large Ferd […]

Stellar Profile of Denise Donley

Stellar Profile of Denise Donley

“The STELLAR … program is designed to recognize, honor, and develop some of the star student achievers of our College. Our CAS STELLAR students will receive special recognition and support from the College to help them achieve their full potential in their academic program and beyond,” according to the STELLAR website. Nominations are not necessarily predicated […]

Manhattan Room display in MUC gallery

Manhattan Room display in MUC gallery

In an effort to gather more attention for the different departments in the SIUE College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), a new project was proposed by Associate Dean Larry LaFond, according to Denise DeGarmo, associate professor and chair of political science.
“Larry LaFond had this brilliant idea to have departments put up displays to get them […]

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson at the ribbon cutting of SIUE's new observatory

DeGrasse Tyson speaks to guests

To bring the readers of TWIC full circle , the editors would like to remind the readers where last semester finished.
Participants prepares for the ribbon cutting ceremony at the new observatory at SIUE.
Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was on campus last semester as part of the Arts and Issues series as well as to perform a […]

SIUE Cuba-Caribbean initiative gains momentum

SIUE Cuba-Caribbean initiative gains momentum

An initiative originating from the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is officially underway at the SIUE due to the foresight of Dean Aldemaro Romero.
“The idea came to my mind when I became the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and found out that there had been many of the […]

Choir commemorates Cuba-Caribbean Center commencing

Choir commemorates Cuba-Caribbean Center commencing

Twenty members of the SIUE choir travelled to perform a selection of songs in a series of concerts in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. This inaugural exchange between Cuba and the SIU system is part of the Cuban-Caribbean Center initiative.
The initiative stems from an idea that Aldemaro Romero, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences […]

Schlau speaks to PSA about daughter's' deaths

Schlau speaks to PSA about daughter’s’ deaths

Just before Thanksgiving, the Political Science Association (PSA) hosted an event that touched on a subject that has been in the headlines in central Illinois for several years. Kim Schlau, a representative of two organizations, Pursuit Safety and Focus Driven, spoke on the deaths of two of her daughters.
PSA asked Schlau to speak at SIUE […]

Math master’s program winds up

Math master’s program winds up

One more semester to go and SIUE will add 25 more master’s level math teachers to the ranks of high school teachers in central Illinois. This is the result of hard work and dedication by two College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) professor’s, Marilyn Hasty and Tammy Voepel.
Associate professors of the Mathematics and Statistics Department, […]

University Museum spans campus

University Museum spans campus

There is art all over the SIUE campus thanks in small part to a French minister of culture. While this idea may seem odd to most people, it has been a focus of the University Museum, and its current director, Eric Barnett, for many years.
Eric Barnett, director of the University Museum (right), examines some of […]

Lt. Governor Simon spoke at SIUE

Lt. Governor Simon spoke at SIUE

Lt. Governor Sheila Simon spoke at SIUE just prior to Thanksgiving. Simon spoke to a handful of students in Morris University Center’s Goshen Lounge at noon on Nov. 17th.
Simon was invited to campus by Nolan Sharkey, president of the student body. Sharkey asked Simon to campus as part of the Progressive Issues forum that took […]

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