October 9th through 14th the Department of Theater and Dance will be teaming up with the Department of Music to put on a production of Fame. This 1980’s musical by David De Silva is a stage show recreation of the popular movie by the same name. The show follows a group of performing arts high […]
Dr. Jen Rehg (on right) with her Peruvian colleagues (from right): Fanny Souza, Deuso Souza, and Ines Nole at the field station
Anthropology Associate Professor and Department Chair Dr. Jen Rehg has co-authored an article in the International Journal of Primatology entitled “Distribution and New Sightings of Goeldi’s Monkey (Callimico goeldii) in Amazonian Peru.” Her work […]
From left: Sammy Seale, IRIS student assistant and Samantha Winkler, Dr. Hildebrandt's student assistant at the open house listening to information given by Hildebrandt.
The Interdisciplinary Research and Informatics Scholarship (IRIS) Center is hosting a series of open houses for faculty and students. The first open house was hosted on Friday, October 5, at the Center, […]
The exhibit at TheBANK of Edwardsville
The University Museum, under the administration of Director Eric Barnett, opened an exhibit of some of the artwork of Cuban American artist Emilio Sanchez on Sept. 24 at the main office of TheBANK of Edwardsville, located in downtown Edwardsville. The exhibit was opened in celebration of the newly established collaborative agreement […]
Now through October 26th, the fall sabbatical show for the Department of Art and Design will be on display. The show features ceramics by Paul Dresang, metal work by Paulette Myers, and foil mono-types by Barbara Nwacha.
Members of both universities attending the signing ceremony (from left to right): Thomas Cheng, Paul Sarvela, Ana Romero, Julie Furst-Bowe (SIU), Raúl Rodriguez, Jorge Hernandez (UH), Rita Cheng, Aldemaro Romero (SIU), Hilda León Castellanos, Lourdes Díaz Fernandez, Milagros Martínez, and Carmen Castillo (UH). Picture by Cory Byers.
September 26, 2012, marked a significant step for Southern […]
Dr. Jason Stacy
Associate Professor of U.S. History Dr. Jason Stacy will be part of a 3-year $330,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Stacy is receiving a $41,000 subcontract from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, which received the grant, and he will be collaborating with Dr. Kenneth Price.
The grant starts in August 2013, […]
Elise Waldman speaks with undergraduates at Coffee With Cool Women
SIUE’s Women’s Studies program, directed by Dr. Catherine Seltzer, kicked off its first in a series of “flash mentoring events” called Coffee With Cool Women on Thursday, September 27th, 2012. The Coffee With Cool Women series, organized and conducted by Seltzer, invites successful women to share […]
Image courtesy of www.onthewingsofbooks.comOctober’s novel for the department of English Language and Literature’s Year of the Book program is Persepolis: The Story of a Childhoodby Marjane Satrapi.
Persepolis is an autobiographical graphic novel that details Satrapi’s childhood and early adulthood in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution. In the novel, main character “Marji” lives her […]
Carolina Rocha’s new book “Masculinities in Contemporary Argentine Popular Cinema” is now on the shelves. An in depth look at the shift in the representation of male gender roles after 1989 when Argentina adapted to a free market society, the book focuses on films where male characters experience a loss of power and how this […]
