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SIUE math professors hope teachers circle rekindles love for mathematics

SIUE math professors hope teachers circle rekindles love for mathematics

SIUE professors Adam Weyhaupt and Tammy Voepel and Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics director Sharon Locke want to remind area middle school teachers that math can still be fun.
Area math teachers from the Middle and High School levels attend the Great Rivers Math Teachers' Circle hosted by the SIUE Mathematics Department and STEM Center. (Photo […]

In remembrance: SIUE grad and local artist dedicates life’s work to Holocaust survival

In remembrance: SIUE grad and local artist dedicates life’s work to Holocaust survival

Agnes Pal’s love of art was born of curiosity and fondness for beautiful shapes nearly a lifetime ago.  She said she loved art since she was a child living in the Hungarian town of Mako, dreaming of artistic designs in her steel bed painted with the Seven Dwarves.
SIUE alum Agnes Pal, left, has created dozens […]

Sen. William Haine visits with art education students

Sen. William Haine visits with art education students

Two art education students and one professor met with Sen. William Haine (D- Alton) earlier this month during Arts Advocacy Day in Springfield.
Art education students Emily Pokojski (left) and Shelby Fleming (right) attended Arts Advocacy Day in Springfield last week with art and design professor Justin Sutter. Pokojski and Fleming visited with Sen. William Haine […]

CAS Colloquium proposals due Jan. 31

CAS Colloquium proposals due Jan. 31

Students and faculty interested in participating in the 2014 College of Arts and Sciences Colloquium have until Jan. 31 to submit proposals.
Associate Dean Larry LaFond said anyone in the university community is eligible, so long as proposals fit the theme “Thinking About Movement.” LaFond said the theme is broad so it can be approached from […]

Black Theater Workshop explores Trayvon Martin case, social justice

Black Theater Workshop explores Trayvon Martin case, social justice

Students will recite poetry, dance and act out artistic expressions at the annual Black Theater Workshop in response to the Trayvon Martin case and social justice.
Students Craig Williams and Ashley Dozier rehearse for the 2014 Black Theater Workshop, which focuses on the Trayvon Martin case and social justice. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Stallings
Martin, a Florida […]

Former congressman Costello to lecture about nation's infrastructure

Former congressman Costello to lecture about nation’s infrastructure

A major bridge collapsed in Minnesota six years ago causing 13 people to lose their lives. Three people were hospitalized after a bridge collapsed in Washington State earlier this year. A section of a bridge in Green Bay, Wis., dropped roughly three feet within the past two weeks, causing the entire bridge to close. And […]

Tamari's 'Syria, Egypt and Us' lecture series begins this week

Tamari’s ‘Syria, Egypt and Us’ lecture series begins this week

The Middle East has made national headlines in recent years, but what is not being covered will be part of the discussion in history professor Steve Tamari’s lecture series that begins this week.
Photos courtesy of Kahled Hamid (left) and Ramah Kudaimi.
Tamari will bring in two speakers for his “Syria, Egypt and Us” series. Ramah Kudaimi, […]

Fatima presents paper on the physician's character at medical conference

Fatima presents paper on the physician’s character at medical conference

The distance physicians create between patients and themselves due to regulations intended to protect patient rights lessens their character, and the competitive nature of medical school and residencies doesn’t help either. That is, according to the paper philosophy professor Saba Fatima recently presented at a medical conference.
Photo courtesy of Saba Fatima
Fatima makes that argument in […]

STELLAR Student profile: Dawn Embry

STELLAR Student profile: Dawn Embry

Senior speech communication major Dawn Embry always wanted to enlist in the U.S. Air Force and hopes to work with congressional members after graduation, but she never imagined receiving SIUE’s STELLAR Student Award.
Photo courtesy of Dawn Embry
Embry said she was shocked to find out she was offered the award, which honors and develops “some of […]

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science selects Chan for BRIDGE Fellowship

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science selects Chan for BRIDGE Fellowship

Environmental sciences professor Melissa Chan was one of three Americans awarded a fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. As a result, she will study new research techniques and the impact of the 2011 Fukushima radioactive leaks in Japan that resulted from an earthquake and a tsunami.
Photo courtesy of Melissa Chan
Chan said […]

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