SIUE’s master of social work program had “record enrollment” for the 2013-2014 academic year, according to Kathleen Tunney, social work department chair.
The program received its largest number of applicants – a roughly 33 percent increase, according to Bryan Duckham, master of social work program director.
Duckham said there were more than 90 applicants to the program, […]
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 […]
The SIUE professors responsible for a collaboration between departments that began with a workshop and culminated in a study abroad program were awarded the 2013 International Education Faculty Achievement Award last week by Chancellor Julie Furst-Bowe.
Anthropology professor Aminata Cairo and theater and dance professor Kathryn Bentley created the interdisciplinary program and its study abroad component, […]
Senior political science and economics major Kyle Foutch spent part of his summer immersed in quantitative analysis to further his studies at SIUE.
Photo courtesy of Kyle Foutch
Foutch participated in the Inter-university Consortium of Political Science Research (ICPSR) Summer Program at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Foutch said the program, which he became interested in after […]
Writing her first book, “The Dubious Diagnosis: How Intersex Became a Disorder of Sex Development,” Georgiann Davis, assistant professor of SIUE Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, realized a necessary voice was missing from sociocultural scholarship on the topic: children’s voices.
Sociology and criminal justice professor Georgiann Davis
Looking forward, Davis was determined to fill this […]
Prof. Edward Navarre, SIUE Chemistry Department
SIU has landed a $1.5 million research grant, which could potentially lead to improved quality of life in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.
The National Institutes of Health awarded the SIUE Chemistry Department, SIUE School of Pharmacy, along with the SIU School of Medicine in Springfield the grant to research the effectiveness of […]
Senior political science major Nasir Almasri will begin a journey in advocacy this semester because of a new opportunity offered by the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center, which is located on the SIUE campus.
Senior political science major Nasir Almasri will work at the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center on the SIUE campus this semester advocating for biofuels.
Almasri, […]
The “Shakespeare of Spain,” Lope de Vega, deserves more recognition than he has received as an unsophisticated, popular playwright of his times, according to Prof. Joao Sedycias, chair of the SIUE Foreign Languages Department.
Professor Joao Sedycias, Chair of the SIUE Foreign Languages Department
In fact, Sedycias has helped unearth the complex psychological dimension of this 17th […]
Lee Mun Wah, a Chinese American diversity trainer, will spread his knowledge across the SIUE and Edwardsville community during a two-day event that begins Aug. 27.
Diversity trainer Lee Mun Wah will visit SIUE Aug. 27 – 28 to discuss diversity with SIUE students, staff and faculty.
He will speak on campus to the public, as well […]
SIUE’s Professor Ann Dirks-Linhorst’s Sociology and Criminal Justice research consists of “educating and removing the stigma associated with mental illness and seeing not just the diagnosis, but the person.”
2013 William and Margaret Professorship Award recipient, Prof. Ann Dirks-Linhorst
For such work, Dirks-Linhorst has received the 2013 William and Margaret Going Professorship Award. The SIUE award recognizes […]
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