College of Arts and Sciences News
27 March 2024, 3:10 PM
A dynamic one-woman performance that takes audiences on the poignant and powerful journey of a young girl’s self-discovery will unfold at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 4 at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Metcalf Theater.
Dr. Juhanna Rogers will present “Shattering,” an acclaimed, poetic...
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22 March 2024, 9:30 AM
The 109-year-old doesn’t sleep well at night. The atrocities and terrors of May 31-June 1, 1921, still seem as though they will engulf Viola Ford Fletcher, like the flames that burned down her home and others during the Tulsa Race Massacre on Black Wall Street in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Okla.
Fletcher, also widely...
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12 March 2024, 10:25 AM
For 21 high school students, their hard work and perseverance paid off in a big way when they learned they received Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s 2024 Meridian Scholarships.
The Meridian Scholarship is the University’s most prestigious academic award. Designed for exemplary students, it covers four...
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11 March 2024, 12:29 PM
Elyse Ibata, a second-year genetics and cell biology major in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, will present at the Central States Communication Association (CSCA) undergraduate honors conference as a Top Three Paper in their undergraduate honors research session. Ibata is an honors student under the...
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7 March 2024, 1:15 PM
April is Jazz Appreciation Month and WSIE 88.7 The Sound, broadcasting from the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, will celebrate by hosting “WSIE Jazzathon” Wednesday, April 17th from 3 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. This event is a primary fundraiser for this heritage station.
WSIE made its on-air debut on Sept. 4,...
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27 February 2024, 1:05 PM
Research on the spiritual impact of Black women’s travel appears light, if not altogether absent in literature, despite the weightiness and significance of their contributions throughout history. To remedy this, Tisha Brooks, PhD, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville College of Arts and Sciences associate dean and associate...
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23 February 2024, 9:50 AM
It’s a “line” that not everyone can cross. But for those who are able and willing, what causes them to do so? Is it the belief someone can leave behind adversity and bias to walk into a life of comfort and opportunities? Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Donavan L. Ramon, PhD, explores these...
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20 February 2024, 1:48 PM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) is now a host site for the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools®. Fifty middle school students from Metro East communities will have the opportunity to enroll in an educational model that identifies as “the intersection of well-being and racial justice for...
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19 February 2024, 5:22 PM
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus community extends our sincerest condolences to the family of Randy Paul Rock who died Wednesday, Feb. 14, at University Care Center in Edwardsville. He was 76.Rock’s journey at SIUE started as a student. He earned a Bachelor of Science (1969) and Master’s in English and...
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29 December 2023, 8:08 PM
Along the Rio Grande located at the United States-Mexico border sits Eagle Pass, Tx, hometown of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Adriana Martinez, PhD. Martinez, an associate professor in geography and environmental sciences, has spent years researching the impact of border security, and most recently, the...
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21 December 2023, 11:44 AM
The following is an article by SIUE student Winter Racine, second-year mass communications student in the College of Arts of Sciences (CAS), and a Senator for Students with Disabilities Area high school students got a taste of college life through outreach experiences coordinated by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville...
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11 December 2023, 12:40 PM
The Kimmel Belonging and Engagement Hub at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville hosted five special celebrations to recognize graduates representing diverse populations during the week of Dec. 4-8, ahead of the University’s fall 2023 commencement exercises being held Friday-Saturday, Dec. 15-16.
Students were honored...
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11 November 2023, 12:35 PM
“There’s power in the student voice and my presence here,” said Winter Racine, a second-year mass communications student in the College of Arts of Sciences (CAS), and a Senator for Students with Disabilities. “Advocacy can bring about transformation.” Racine was one of a number of speakers who...
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10 November 2023, 3:29 PM
The Alestle, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s student news organization, recently won several national awards during the 102nd annual Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Association National College Media Convention. This year marks the most national awards for which The Alestle was nominated and received.For the first...
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9 November 2023, 3:23 PM
Registration is now open for Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s winter session for undergraduate and graduate students as well as visiting students in search of courses needed for their home institution. SIUE Winter Session offers a variety of accelerated three-week classes held entirely online December 18, 2023 through...
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9 November 2023, 9:50 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s WSIE 88.7 FM The Sound will kick off its Jazzathon Week on Saturday, Nov. 11. The fundraiser will run until Sunday, Nov. 19 on the listener-supported radio station.
“We are excited to bring our second Jazzathon to the airwaves,” said WSIE General Manger Jason...
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31 October 2023, 10:19 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's Timothy Lewis, PhD, associate professor of political science was featured in a live interview on KMOV News 4 to offer expert analysis of local St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell’s decision to change course from the US Senate race and instead run for a seat in the House of...
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31 October 2023, 9:11 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Graduate School awarded prestigious scholarships to graduate students who have made exceptional contributions to teaching and research at the annual Awards Reception on October 24.Master’s-level students who received the Competitive Graduate Award and Graduate Scholar Award for the...
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12 October 2023, 9:30 AM
Out of the artistic strokes of varying browns, the shades of burnt orange, the canary yellows and somber grays, emerges a remarkable, pictorial story and heritage – still unknown to many – that illustrates the history of America’s oldest Black incorporated town.
Southern Illinois University...
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21 September 2023, 1:05 PM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Charter High School (CHS) students eagerly participated in hands-on lessons that demonstrated the hard work that comes with informing and entertaining the public.
The CHS Media Literacy class visited SIUE’s Department of Mass Communications on Thursday, Sept. 7. Students...
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19 September 2023, 8:50 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s senior biological sciences student Mary-Margaret Benware has been named a Golden Opportunity Scholar. This international recognition is given to 20 students to encourage each individual to continue to pursue their passion to enter the agronomy, crop, soil or environmental sciences...
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18 September 2023, 8:40 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is thrilled to announce the fusion of two beloved traditions, Homecoming and Family Weekend, that promises to captivate alumni, families and community members alike. Under the theme "Cougar State of Mind," this year's celebration will take place Wednesday-Sunday, Oct. 11-15.“The traditions...
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10 August 2023, 9:00 AM
The recipients of the Graduate School’s 2023 Research Grants for Research Doctoral Students (RGRDS) awards have been selected. The RGRDS program awards grants of up to $1,000 on a competitive basis to support research/projects initiated and conducted by students of the SIUE EdD programs, DNP programs, and the co-operative PhD programs to...
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9 August 2023, 10:20 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Adriana E. Martinez, PhD, associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Departments of Geography and Geographic Information Sciences and Environmental Sciences, participated in the River-based ImmersiVe Education & Research (RIVER) Field Studies Network river rendezvous...
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8 June 2023, 9:50 AM
Geography students at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville enhanced their knowledge of meteorology and climatology with a unique learning experience through storm chasing. Students and faculty traveled over 3,000 miles in six days tracking and chasing storms in Oklahoma and Texas as part of the GEOG 429 Storm Chasing and Assessment field...
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25 May 2023, 8:55 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Chaya Gopalan, PhD, professor in the Departments of Applied Heath, Nurse Anesthesiology, and Mark Poepsel, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Mass Communications, have both received the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLi) Support for Creation of Open...
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9 May 2023, 8:05 AM
Stephen Hansen, PhD, has been a steadfast supporter of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the surrounding communities since joining the University in 1984 as associate dean of graduate studies and research and associate professor in the Department of History. Over the course of his career, Hansen has served as dean of graduate studies...
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24 April 2023, 9:10 AM
In response to the increased demand and limited number of individuals entering the professional surveying workforce, the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s School of Engineering (SOE) is announcing the formation of a new four-year degree in land surveying and geomatics. This is the only four-year degree for land surveying that...
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11 April 2023, 9:40 AM
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Graduate School is pleased to announce the spring 2023 Research Grants for Graduate Students (RGGS) award recipients.
The awards, valued at up to $500 each, will support the research and creative activities of 45 graduate students studying in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Schools of...
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6 April 2023, 3:01 PM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Gary Hicks, PhD, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ (CAS) Department of Mass Communication, will present The William and Margaret Going Endowed Professorship Award Lecture at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 19 in the Maple-Dogwood Room in the Morris University Center on the...
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28 March 2023, 1:50 PM
When conducting surveys, researchers ask respondents for identifiable data such age, race and sex. This information rarely caters for nonmonosexuals, sometimes out of unconscious preference for gender, or heterosexual and homosexual, binary. This is about to change, thanks to an instrument developed by Southern Illinois University...
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8 December 2022, 12:30 PM
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has announced Southern Illinois University Edwardsville as a recipient of $531,600 as part of a multi-institutional $8 million grant through its Inclusive Excellence 3...
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17 June 2022, 10:00 AM
[CAS News Story]
Sunday, June 19 is Juneteenth National Independence Day. As you probably know, this holiday marks the day—June 19, 1865—when people who had been enslaved in Texas learned that they were free. Celebrations of this day began in Texas in 1866 and became common in African American communities in the South in the twentieth...
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3 May 2022, 3:45 PM
When College of Arts and Sciences senior Samantha Gallatin, of Machesney Park, came to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, she wanted to become a secondary education biology teacher.
After joining the GEOPATHS Scholars Program, however, her interests shifted toward geography, and she became inspired in pursuing a career as a researcher and...
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