Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumnus Jennifer Harres, chief financial officer of the First National Bank of Waterloo, has been recognized by the St. Louis Business Journal as a 2016 CFO of the Year in the small corporations division.
She earned a bachelor’s in accountancy from the SIUE School of Business in 1993. She is one of 13 area CFO’s being ...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumnus Thomas Burris, PhD, is a recipient of the Fellows Award presented by the Academy of Science-St. Louis for his outstanding achievement in science.
Burris earned a bachelor’s in chemistry and medical science from SIUE in 1989. He is a William Beaumont professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacological and Physiol...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is among eight schools competing in the second annual Scripps International Innovators Cup. A team of five students from SIUE’s media management course met the challenge of using their entrepreneurial skills to develop an innovative idea that solves a media-related issue.
The SIUE team comprised of Lindsay Buente, Kimberly H...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Executive Director of International Affairs Mary Konya Weishaar, PhD, is one of 10 higher education professionals in the U.S. selected for a Fulbright International Education Administrator Seminar award to Japan. The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board present the award.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Center for STEM Research, Education and Outreach is sharing its extensive resources and experts’ knowledge in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) with community members through innovative learning opportunities.
This Spring, the Center is providing a diverse range of STEM-related outreach programm...
The publication St. Louis Currents: The Fifth Edition is now available. The 30-year-old publication started in 1986 as a way to disseminate critical essays from local St. Louis leaders on issues facing the entire region.
Thirty years later, Currents is still shaping the St. Louis region’s thinking. The fifth edition addresses a wide variety of topics...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville ranked second among Illinois’ 12 public universities in the annual Certified Public Accounting (CPA) exam results. Scoring well above state and national averages, SIUE accounting graduates were runners-up to graduates from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Office of the Provost has presented Dayna Henry, PhD, with the Teaching Excellence Award, the most prestigious teaching award that a tenure-line faculty member can receive at the University. Three additional faculty members were commended for their exceptional teaching skills and accomplishments.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville welcomed a record 140 prospective students to campus on Friday, March 25 for Transfer Visit Day. This was nearly triple the number of students who attended the special event one year ago.
“We were incredibly enthused to welcome so many students to campus for Transfer Visit Day,” said Jennifer Harbaugh, associate direct...
Dr. Agnes Scoville, winner of last year’s Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Metro East Start-Up Challenge, captured third place in the U.S. Small Business Administration’s InnovateHER Business Challenge.
Scoville competed as one of 10 finalists in a live business pitch on Thursday, March 17, in Washington, D.C. as part of a national business plan compe...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s new online master’s program option in adult and continuing education is expanding the University’s reach by offering a unique range of online courses, catered toward working individuals.
The program option is a series of online courses available in the master’s in curriculum and instruction through the SI...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s student newspaper The Alestle earned 13 awards at the 33rd Annual Illinois College Press Association convention held Feb. 19-20 in Chicago.
The Alestle achieved three first-place awards, placed in five other categories and earned four honorable mentions, including recognition for general excellence in the large-school divi...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Business students were honored for their academic achievements at the 12th Annual School of Business Scholarships and Awards Program held Wednesday, March 23 in the Morris University Center.
Nearly $100,000 worth of scholarships were awarded to more than 75 of the School’s best and brightest students, pursuing degr...
The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees today approved a tuition increase for the 2016-17 Academic Year that will result in a $690 increase over last year for newly entering, in-state undergraduates on the Edwardsville campus. The board met on the Edwardsville campus.
With the increase, the annual tuition rate will be $8,352 for new, in-state full-time undergra...
The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees at its regularly scheduled meeting on the Edwardsville campus Thursday, March 24, approved contracts totaling more than $3.5-million for four projects on the Edwardsville campus. The projects include:
Development of an Edwardsville Campus Dental Clinic for the SIU School of Dental Medicine (SIU SDM)
The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees today approved fee-related changes for the Edwardsville campus for the fall and spring terms of the 2016-17 academic year. The changes made during the board’s meeting on the Edwardsville campus included housing occupancy rates and the student fees for Information Technology, Textbook Rental and Intercollegiate Athlet...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville double alum Camille Emig-Hill, a communications expert, business and financial services professional, and community and youth supporter, will receive the University’s Distinguished Service Award at its May 2016 commencement. The SIU Board of Trustees approved the presentation during its December meeting.
The Rolla Regional Robotics team from St. James, Mo., won the 2016 annual Greater St. Louis Botball Tournament on Saturday, March 19 at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Fifteen teams competed in the Morris University Center Meridian Ballroom before a crowd of more than 150 throughout the day.
This year’s theme was a Mars Mission crewmember rescue. Students...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Zach Anderson and John Bentley earned first place at the first annual eHacks competition in SIUE’s Technology and Management Center during the weekend of March 11-13. The sophomore computer science majors created Handy, an interactive sign-language tutor that uses a Leap Motion Controller device supplied by Major Leag...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Sarah VanSlette, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Communication Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, will be a featured presenter at the Missouri History Museum at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 17. She will contribute to a free panel discussion titled “High School and Beyond: Is St. Louis a Welcomi...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will host approximately 400 local 5-12th grade students at the regional Science and Engineering Research Challenge (SERC) on campus Saturday, April 2. The 32nd annual competition will be held from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in the Student Activity Center, located in the Student Fitness Center.
The event features the finest science, technolo...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s George Pelekanos, PhD, professor and undergraduate program director in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has achieved the rank of Distinguished Research Professor for his significant scholarly contributions to inverse scattering.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Dennis Bouvier, PhD, chair of the Department of Computer Science in the School of Engineering, and colleagues, earned Best Paper at the 47th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education held March 2-5 in Memphis.
The paper, titled “A Multi-Institutional Study of Peer In...
Carrying out its mission to “Give Together, Care Together,” members of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Hospice Volunteer Initiative have created a way to capture and share the cherished memories of individuals in hospice care. The group’s latest outreach project involves the creation of memory books.
The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) has presented Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Professor Emmanuel S. Eneyo, PhD, with a 2016 Golden Torch Award for Lifetime Achievement in Academia.
A professor of industrial engineering, Eneyo has served the SIUE School of Engineering for more than 25 years. He joined the SIUE faculty in 1989 as an assistant profes...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Venessa A. Brown, PhD, associate chancellor for the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion has been elected to the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) Board of Directors. Brown will serve a three-year term.
NADOHE’s vision is “to lead higher education toward inclusiv...
Three Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumni were recognized for their achievements and contributions to the community at the Edwardsville/Glen Carbon Annual Community Awards Gala and Auction. The event, sponsored by the Edwardsville/Glen Carbon Chamber of Commerce, was held Saturday, March 12 in SIUE’s Morris University Meridian Ballroom.
Middle and high school students will engage their minds and their robots when Southern Illinois University Edwardsville hosts its annual Botball tournament on Sat., March 19. This year’s theme is “Rescue from Mars.”
This is the 19th Botball season and the 14th year that SIUE will host the region’s tournament. Seventeen teams will be coming to the M...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Ali Kutan, PhD, professor of economics and finance in the School of Business, has received the rank Distinguished Research Professor for his significant scholarly contributions to international financial markets.
The accolade is an academic rank awarded to tenured faculty members in recognition of outstanding and sustained...
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering celebrated its exceptional students, faculty and alumni at its 10th Annual Awards Banquet held Feb. 25. The School recognized an outstanding junior, senior, graduate student, teacher and alumnus from each of its six degree programs.
The banquet exemplified the School’s core values, which emphasize i...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Head Start/Early Head Start students enjoyed a day of playing and learning about robotics on Tuesday, March 8 from the SIUE Upward Bound Math and Science Center staff.
At the invitation of the Discovery Center Head Start, the Math and Science staff visited approximately 30 students ages three-five and...
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Department of Foreign Languages and Literature will host a Spanish Camp for students ages six to 12 from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, June 13-24. Students will engage in a wide range of exciting educational and recreational activities that will develop their Spanish communication skills.
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) School of Nursing (SON) and Lake Land College have announced a new partnership. The Bachelor of Science in nursing degree track enables community college students to rapidly achieve their baccalaureate degree from the (SON). Students must have previously attended Lake Land College to complete an associate degree and the ...
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Head Start/Early Head Start Program will take part in a community-wide professional development session from 2:30-4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 16 to help educators and home visitors better educate children in Greater East St. Louis.
The Greater East St. Louis Innovation Zone will host the first community-wide professional ...
Dr. Agnes Scoville, winner of last year’s Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Metro East Start-Up Challenge, was selected from more than 200 companies across the United States as a finalist in the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 2016 InnovateHER Business Challenge.
InnovateHER, a national business plan competition organized by SBA and sp...
In the wake of the on-going state of Illinois budget crisis, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Interim Chancellor Stephen Hansen addressed the campus community Monday in the Morris University Center Meridian Ballroom. He discussed the progress made by the SIUE congress that was established last fall to successfully plan for an SIU...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville summer session 2016 offers a quality education that features flexibility and convenience. More than 1,000 courses are available, with more online options than ever before.
Register now and enjoy summer at SIUE!
A variety of introductory general education and required upper-division classes are offered during summer session. Most ...
Lauren Williams, building information modeling (BIM) manager for S.M. Wilson, is the recipient of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s 2016 Construction Leadership Institute (CLI) Alumni Award. The ceremony was Friday, March 11 as a part of the CLI Alumni Day and Graduation celebration.
Program Co-Directors Chris Gordon, associate dean of the SIUE School of E...
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Department of Music will present one of the most widely performed opera’s in the world, The Magic Flute, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 17 and Friday, March 18 in the Dunham Hall Theater on campus.
The SIUE Opera Theatre is producing The Magic Flute directed by Marc Schapman, PhD, associate professo...
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy’s Chris Herndon, PharmD, associate professor, and third-year (P3) student Scott Sexton, of Waterloo, are among the founding officers of the Society of Palliative Care Pharmacists (SPCP). Herndon will serve as treasurer, and Sexton as student trustee for the newly formed national pharmacy organization.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville hosts eHacks, a 36-hour invention competition, in the Technology and Management Center from Friday evening, March 11 through Sunday morning, March 13. Sixty-five pre-registered contestants will vie for more than $3,000 in prizes to be distributed across multiple categories
In line with its commitment to a student-centered educational community, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville continues to expand its program offerings to meet the needs and demands of students through innovative, cost-effective avenues.
One such offering is being coordinated by Dr. Kevin Thomas, director of retention and student success at SIUE, and a senior project...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s University Marketing and Communications Department received seven awards in the 31st annual Educational Advertising Awards announced March 1. Higher Education Marketing Report sponsors the awards.
The Educational Advertising Awards is the largest educational advertising awards competition in the country. This year, over 2,...
NASA has awarded Southern Illinois University Edwardsville $11.5 million to expand its citizen science and educational activities through CosmoQuest, a second-generation citizen science facility. CosmoQuest Project Director Dr. Pamela Gay, assistant research professor in the SIUE STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) Center, will lead the initiative as princ...
Graduates of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s School of Pharmacy class of 2015 have exceeded both state and national averages, boasting a first-attempt board pass rate of 97.26% on the North American Pharmacist Licensure Exam (NAPLEX). The graduates’ combined score was the highest board pass rate of any program in Illinois or Missouri.
After 22 years in the U.S. Air Force, O’Fallon resident Dwight Dettmann was ready for a change. With the help of the Illinois Metro East Small Development Center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, he made the transformation from a trained expert in information security to small business owner by launching his own handyman business.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Sarah Laux received two awards from the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) - College Student Educators International at its annual convention Monday, March 7 in Montreal, Canada.
An assistant director of civic engagement with SIUE’s Kimmel Student Involvement Center, Laux’s responsibilities include d...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy (SIUE SOP) continued its commitment to community service by holding a Diabetes Education Program Saturday, Jan. 30, in the Morris University Center. The event drew more than 100 interested individuals seeking more insight into diabetes.
The program included speaker sessions, a vendor fair, diabetes screen...
The Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine (SIU SDM) has expanded to meet the demands in the international dentist community through its International Advanced Placement Program (IAPP). The inaugural class of six students began the 27-month program on the Alton campus in February.
The IAPP enables qualified dentists who have graduated from an acknowledged ...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville announced that the late Captain John E. Tipton will be the first inductee from SIUE to the United States Army ROTC Hall of Fame. The enshrinement will take place in the Morris University Center Goshen Lounge at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 13 and also serve as celebration of the Army ROTC’s 100th anniversary.
Thousands of people filed into the Vadalabene Center Friday, March 4 to hear Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders speak on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. A crowd of more than 4,000 jammed the facility, while hundreds stood outside in the cold where Sanders briefly addressed them before going inside.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville students networked and discussed potential job opportunities with representatives from more than 150 major companies during three career fairs held on campus March 1-3.
“SIUE is our best producing relationship for our college campus recruiting,” said J.R. Maxfield, lead talent acquisition specialist with Enterprise Hol...
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will travel to Illinois Friday, March 4. The Democratic Party presidential candidate will host a rally in SIUE’s Vadalabene Center.
Sanders is expected to speak at 10:30 a.m. and will discuss a wide range of issues.
Students at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville made an environmentally friendly trade off on Wednesday, March 2 in the school’s first annual Recycle Bowl.
“For every plastic bottle, aluminum can or paper cup that a student brought in, we gave them an SIUE reusable bottle in return,” said Sydney Jackson, a junior in Interper...
Butts was named the OVC Player of the Year and a first-team All-Conference member. Moore was selected as the co-Defensive Player of the Year. Both players became members of SIUE’s 1,000-point club this season.
The life and ideas of a grandfather of sustainability, a futuristic designer and utopian thinker will be performed at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville on Thursday, March 31 and Friday, April 1.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy (SOP) first-year (P1) students are teaching more than 5,000 Pre-K through third grade students from Madison and St. Clair counties how to stay safe from potentially harmful items. Forty teams of SOP students are involved in the School’s annual service learning experience, presenting age-appropriate lessons ...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Caroline Pryor, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, has been selected to serve on the Archeological Society of Saint Louis’ (ASSTL) Education Committee.
Pryor will focus her committee work on aligning resources, such as historic sites and artifacts, with states’ K-12 content are...