January 2015
31 January 2015, 1:55 PM
The SIUE University Marketing and Communications Department received four awards from the 2014 Collegiate Advertising Awards competition.
SIUE earned gold awards for two categories: The SIUE Chancellor’s Report in the annual report category and The Gardens at SIUE Calendar in the calendar category.
The SIUE “SMART” television spot earned a silver awar...
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30 January 2015, 1:47 PM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s spring 2015 semester has grown by 300 students from spring 2014 and full-time spring enrollment has reached an all-time high.
With 10,153 full-time and 13,178 total students enrolled, this is the best spring enrollment picture on record for the institution. The increase over last year is based on several factors including a ...
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30 January 2015, 10:30 AM
In person, the 16-year-old seems low-key, but on stage the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Upward Bound student brought a crowd of 200 to its feet and won first place in a regional talent show competition.
Sergio Gomez is a student in SIUE’s East St. Louis Center TRIO Upward Bound Program. He was selected to attend the TRIO Mid-America Association of Educa...
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30 January 2015, 9:49 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Art and Design students have displayed their work at the Annual Juried Graduate Exhibition.
Today is the last day for the exhibit on display in the Art West Gallery located in the Art and Design West building, The exhibit celebrates and shares the artistic accomplishments of the graduate students, said Joe Page, assistant pr...
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30 January 2015, 9:48 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Dr. Parviz Ansari, provost and vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, has been selected for the Academy of Science-St. Louis board of trustees.
The Academy is an independent science organization supported entirely through community contributions. It is the driving force behind scientific progress and awareness in St. Louis ...
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30 January 2015, 8:44 AM
SIU School of Dental Medicine alum Col. William J. Greenwood has assumed command of the U.S. Army Dental Activity at Love Dental Clinic at Fort Benning, Ga. The appointment became official during October 2014.
Greenwood is honored to serve as the new commanding officer.
“He is going to be a great fit down here at Fort Benning,” said Col. Lemuel Covington, Souther...
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29 January 2015, 2:47 AM
Four alumni from the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Business have received promotions to assistant vice president/commercial banking within TheBANK of Edwardsville.
Justin Chapman BS’04 earned his bachelor’s in business administration, economics and marketing from SIUE. He began his career with TheBANK in 2008. Prior to his recent promotion,...
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28 January 2015, 2:01 PM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville hosted its second annual Spring Cougar Fest on Tuesday.
Hundreds of SIUE students, staff and faculty enjoyed a fair that combined area merchants and volunteer organizations, said Michelle Welter, associate director of the Kimmel Student Involvement Center.
More than 60 businesses and non-profits were on display at Cougar Fest.
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28 January 2015, 11:58 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Friends of Theater and Dance (FOTAD) will present its annual dinner theater, Box and Cox, on Sunday, Feb. 8.
FOTAD’s major fundraiser for the year, presenting the Victorian farce written by John Maddison Morton in 1846, will take place in the SIUE Morris University Center’s Fixins’ Restaurant. Doors open at 6 p...
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27 January 2015, 5:08 PM
The Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine (SIU SDM) is proud to announce that starting immediately, the School will increase dental services offered to children with special needs.
Through a partnership with the Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation (SIHF) and Touchette Regional Hospital, SIU SDM will have access to the hospital in Centreville to p...
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27 January 2015, 10:27 AM
SIUE Director of Athletics Dr. Brad Hewitt has announced Mario Sanchez as the new Cougars men’s soccer head coach. Sanchez becomes the seventh head coach in program history.
“We were fortunate in our candidate pool,” Hewitt said. “We had applicants from every major soccer conference in the country. Ultimately, we felt Mario was the best fit for the...
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27 January 2015, 8:29 AM
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Alumni Association is hosting a professional development event to help jumpstart your career search.
“Launching Your Career Search” will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 10 from 6-8 p.m. in Birger Hall at SIUE.
The event will feature accomplished presenters, who are all SIUE alumni, on the topics of writing an effective re...
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27 January 2015, 8:25 AM
At first glance, it looks like a video game: five avatars sitting at desks, carrying on conversations and demonstrating a multitude of behaviors. But these animations are not as robotic as one may expect. Each avatar is precisely programmed to act and react as students would in a live classroom setting.
At the controls of this virtual classroom are Southern Illinois Unive...
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26 January 2015, 9:38 PM
SIUE alum and former men’s soccer student-athlete Chris Camacho, a veteran economic developer at the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, has been named the group’s next president and CEO, replacing Barry Broome.
Broome resigned to take a similar position in Sacramento after leading economic development in Maricopa County for nine years.
Camacho earned a bachelor...
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23 January 2015, 2:36 PM
SIUE undergraduate Sadie Gassmann is the new Miss Illinois County Fair Queen.
Gassmann is a junior pursuing a degree in elementary education in the School of Education, Health and Human Behavior.
More information can be found in an article in
The Southern.
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23 January 2015, 1:50 PM
Often referred to as the intellectual center of campus, the number of students exploring the expanded and enhanced Library and Information Services (LIS) at Lovejoy Library has grown substantially.
Unlike national trends in academic libraries, Lovejoy Library’s gate count indicates a 15 percent increase in visits annually over the past five years. On average, that...
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23 January 2015, 8:51 AM
Find out how a master’s in College Student Personnel Administration from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville can help you advance your career in higher education at an upcoming information session.
Register here and learn more about this high-quality program Saturday, Feb. 7 from 9-11 a.m. on the first floor of Alumni Hall at SIUE.
Housed in the Department of...
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21 January 2015, 5:15 PM
They were words of tribute and honor, fit for a King, and masterfully crafted and delivered by regal poets in their own right at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration. Watch video here.
Dr. Eugene B. Redmond, SIUE emeritus professor of English, East St. Louis poet laureate and co-founder of the Eugene B. Redmon...
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21 January 2015, 4:42 PM
Awards were presented at the 32nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Award Celebration at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The University recognized six recipients for their actions, talents and achievements, which exemplified the principles and ideals of King.
More than 25 essays, poems and visual arts entries were submitted from six area high schools...
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21 January 2015, 7:00 AM
SIUE student-athletes continue to excel in the classroom and have now posted a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of better than 3.0 for 17-consecutive semesters.
SIUE student-athletes completed the 2014 fall semester with a 3.089 grade point average. Among the 253 SIUE student-athletes, 63.2 percent completed the term with a GPA of 3.0 or above, and 29.6 percent fini...
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20 January 2015, 5:36 PM
More than 125 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville students marched silently, all with black tape across their mouths and wearing the nametags of dead black men.
The students walked from Lovejoy Library to the Morris University Center to protest police killings of black men across the country. The group, all donned in black, stood silently in the Goshen Lounge. Then ...
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20 January 2015, 11:30 AM
“Letters of Purpose: Dr. King’s Global Perspective” is the theme for the 32nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Award Celebration at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Dr. Eugene B. Redmond, emeritus professor of English at SIUE, poet, editor and author, will be the main speaker. SIUE Chancellor Julie Furst-Bowe will give the welcome.
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20 January 2015, 10:14 AM
SIUE’s Bryan Smith, assistant professor of kinesiology and health education in the School of Education, Health and Human Behavior, was popular with the media last week.
Smith and former student researcher Kristin Dierker studied four of the most popular activity tracking devices during the 2013-2014 academic year to determine if the devices are accurate.
Smith appe...
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19 January 2015, 3:17 PM
SIUE Athletics shot up the charts to finish in the top 100 of the 2014-15 Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup Division I Final Fall Standings.
With NCAA Tournament appearances by both men’s and women’s soccer, the Cougars earned 75 points in the rankings, which tied Oklahoma of the Big 12 Conference and Oakland of the Horizon League.
SIUE is tied for the No. ...
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16 January 2015, 2:47 PM
SIUE alum Tom Dougherty is the new City of Edwardsville Parks and Recreation sports supervisor. Dougherty earned a master’s in public administration from SIUE after being a graduate assistant in the SIUE campus recreation department. He is profiled in an Edwardsville Intelligencer
story posted Friday, Jan. 16.
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16 January 2015, 1:40 PM
A program celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is expected to be full of inspiration and information, thanks to a Southern Illinois University Edwardsville retiree.
Paul Pitts, formerly SIUE assistant chancellor for Institutional Compliance, is leading the MLK program at Mount Joy Missionary Baptist Church, 327 Olive St. in Edwardsville.
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16 January 2015, 1:36 PM
SIUE men’s soccer standouts Matt Polster and Christian Volesky each were drafted Thursday during the first day of the Major League Soccer (MLS) Superdraft.
Polster was selected by the Chicago Fire with the seventh overall pick. Volesky was taken by the Portland Timbers with 11th pick in the second round (32nd overall).
Chosen as the Missouri Valley Conference Def...
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15 January 2015, 4:06 PM
The Friends of Art along with the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Department of Art & Design invite the public to the 38th Annual Art Auction Thursday, March 19. This year’s auction will be held in the Art West Gallery located in the Art & Design West building on the SIUE campus.
The 2015 auction will offer original artworks donated by faculty, visiting arti...
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15 January 2015, 9:04 AM
With the start of the spring semester comes a renewed opportunity for students at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to excel in the academic setting and work toward their collegiate goals.
“The beginning of the semester is the one time that everyone starts out in their courses with an “A”,” said Kevin Thomas, director of retention and stude...
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15 January 2015, 9:04 AM
Years ago, an old and unassuming trumpet claimed the life of a petite, jazz performance graduate student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
From the moment she put her lips on the horn, it was a rhapsody of sorts. And decades later, Weber’s love for the instrument has increased and taken her further into the world of music.
On Jan. 30 and 31, Weber wil...
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14 January 2015, 9:33 AM
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus is bustling with activity as a new year and new semester are here. The fresh start offers students a chance for resolve as they embark on a semester filled with new courses and opportunities. During the first week of classes, students shared their new semester resolutions. Hear what their goals are for the semester in th...
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13 January 2015, 9:04 AM
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is hosting its third annual “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day” from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, in the SIUE School of Engineering Building
Girls from grades 5-8 are invited to attend the daylong event that offers exposure to the engineering field. Participants will comple...
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12 January 2015, 7:00 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Chancellor Julie Furst-Bowe has been named to the panel of judges for Illinois Performance Excellence (
ILPEx).
ILPEx partners with Illinois leaders to build organizational knowledge and capability to achieve performance excellence and contribute to the economic vitality of their communities and the state. ILPEx offers training a...
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9 January 2015, 4:14 PM
Three Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumni are considered among the “best and brightest business leaders in the St. Louis community.” Munier El-Beck, MD BS’00, Ryan Freeman BS’01 and Tolga Tanriseven MS’03 were named to the St. Louis Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 Class of 2015.
The SIUE alums were among more than 750 nomi...
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8 January 2015, 3:11 PM
The SIUE School of Business Executive Education program has announced its upcoming project management courses and workshops.
Essential Writing Skills for Project Success Friday, Feb. 6, 13, 20, and 27, 2015 8 A.M.-Noon SIUE Main Campus – Founders Hall
Essential Writing Skills for Project Success is a training program that meets on four-consecutive Frid... |
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8 January 2015, 11:29 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has joined The University Center of Lake County consortium of 20 member institutions.
The University Center’s Governing Board moved to add SIUE programs on December 10, 2014. SIUE will contribute three programs to the consortium, which now offers more than 120 programs leading to bachelor’s degrees, graduate degrees or...
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6 January 2015, 4:25 PM
The New Year’s resolution of “getting fit” still reigns as the most widely proclaimed among the general population. That’s likely why one of 2014’s most popular Christmas gifts—activity trackers—tout the ability to help people better monitor their activity level and reach their fitness goals.
“Their general purpose is to tra...
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6 January 2015, 12:27 PM
The SIUE School of Pharmacy and Dean Gireesh Gupchup are featured prominently in the Illinois Business Journal’s January 2015 issue. Read writer Dennis Grubaugh’s story
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5 January 2015, 1:48 AM
SIUE School of Engineering alum Chico Weber (’13, BS mechanical engineering) won the inaugural City of Highland Gigabit Challenge.
Highland News Leader writer Mark Hodapp wrote about the competition in a story posted December 17.
Weber also was featured on page 7 in the School of Engineering’s 2013 Dean’s Report.
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