Lawrence Grinter speaks to SIUE faculty, staff, and students about Asian issues.
In the global marketplace today, gathering knowledge about other people is an indispensable tool. SIUE faculty, staff, and students had the opportunity to learn about issues relating to Asia on the world stage this past week from an expert in the field.
With more than […]
Even thousands of miles away at a university in Austria, SIUE Alumnus Stan Ford said he applies his SIUE-learned knowledge straight to his own students.
Stan Ford, pianist and inductee into SIUE's 2011 Alumni Hall of Fame
This year, the university inducted Ford into its 2011 Alumni Hall of Fame for his accomplishments since obtaining his bachelor’s […]
Last Friday Sculptor’s at Wagner (SAW) hosted their annual sculpture walk and dinner. The walk is part of SIUE’s Sculpture on Campus program that annually gives students the opportunity to create large scale works to be displayed over the course of the year on campus.
“It’s unique, it doesn’t happen any other place.” Thad Duhigg, professor […]
Last summer, Tom Thomson and Rebecca Sibert-Johnston of the museum studies graduate program took historical studies to a modern medium.
Under the guidance of Jeff Manuel, assistant professor of historical studies, Sibert-Johnson and Thomson created an android app as an experiment in digital history. The goal of which was to display historical information in modern settings.
The […]
SIUE welcomed Assistant Professor Georgiann Davis into the Sociology Department this fall and students were invited to get a glimpse into her research last Wednesday. She presented her talk on the tender and little-researched subject of intersex persons and their reactions to the medical profession, as well as society as a whole. The Women’s Studies […]
On October 7th 12:30pm 2011 two SIUE professors took to the quad armed only with a small bongo drum and two copies of a poem that had been charged with obscenity 56 years earlier–the bongo: irrelevant to this story; the poem: “Howl” by Allen Ginsberg. Taking their stance on grassy knoll Eric Ruckh, associate professor […]
Chambers
SIUE’s Women Studies Department and Black Studies Department, as a co-sponsor, welcomed Dail Chambers as last week’s guest for the series “Coffee with Cool Women.”
Dail Chambers, founder of the Yeyo Arts Collective
The series has been successful since the start and is aimed at helping students gain insight from professionals about their lives and careers in […]
Sometimes people think a small lie won’t build up into a bigger and bigger lie, but Oscar Wilde’s play, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” tells a different — and usually true — story.
The comical play opens this week as SIUE Theater and Dance Department’s first main play of the season. The two main characters change […]
Polymath will be changing hands come January 2012 when Susan Hume, associate professor of geography will be replacing Douglas Simms as editor.
Polymath is SIUE’s interdisciplinary journal collecting works from all areas across the College of Arts and Sciences. The term polymath refers to a scholar who’s expertise spans across a number of disciplines. The term […]
Ralph Donald, professor of mass communications in SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), will receive an award for long time service on November 5.
The award is from the Mid Atlantic Popular American Culture Association (MAPACA). This is the first year for the award that was established to honor Loretta Lorance to “pay tribute to […]
