Friday, Dec. 8, 2017

The Department of Art & Design will host:

Pottery, Glass and Jewelry Sale
9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Today-Saturday, Dec. 8-9
SIUE Art and Design Building East

Our end of semester sale features hundreds of handmade pieces from Art and Design students and faculty!  

Proceeds benefit visiting artists, conference trips and other student enrichment.

The SIUE Faculty Association is sponsoring a canned food drive:

10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Today 
Peck Hall Lobby

Trade your non-perishable donations for a gift from the Faculty Association! All students, staff and faculty are welcome and encouraged to participate.

The SIUE Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and the SIUE Intercollegiate Athletic Department hosts their annual Kids’ Night Out event:

6-10 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 8
Vadalabene Center Gymnasium

Enjoy a night to yourself, while your children enjoy a fun-filled evening with the SIUE student-athletes. Activities for the kids will include: board games, coloring, crafts, basketball, volleyball, movies, snacks, tag, kickball and much more!

Ages 4 and up are welcome to attend. The event is open to all. Please feel free to share with friends, family and neighbors!

The cost for the event is $20 for the first child and $5 for each additional child in the same family. If you bring a gently used/washed coat or new coat, the price will be $15 for the first child and $5 for each additional child in the same family. All coats will be donated.

Please RSVP to Brianna McCarthy at brimcca@siue.edu or at 650-3207. Please include the number of children, names and ages.

The Department of Theater and Dance presents "The End: An Apocalypse Anthology, A Collection of Short Plays" by Dan Dietz, Jennifer Haley, Allison Moore, A. Rey Pamatmat and Marco Ramirez. The play is directed by Wendy Renée Farmer.

7:30 p.m.
Today-Saturday, Dec. 9

and

2 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 10
Metcalf Theater

All seating is general admission.
Ticket costs: FREE - SIUE students with a valid I.D., $12 – General admission adults, $10 -  General admission SIUE retirees, alumni, faculty, staff, seniors and non-SIUE students.

You may purchase tickets at the Theater and Dance Box Office at 618-650-2774, located in Dunham Hall, Room 1042B

For more information, email theater-tickets@siue.edu.

Alpha Sigma Tau is sponsoring a Vendor Event Fundraiser:

Vendors include 11 LuLaRoe retailers, Pampered Chef, Scentsy, LipSense and more.

10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 9
Morris University Center, Meridian Ballroom

Admission is free, but we are accepting canned food donations.

For more information,visit LuLaRoe. 

The SIUE STEM and IRIS Centers invite SIUE and surrounding community members to attend the Digital East St. Louis project showcase.

12:30-1:30 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 9
Friends Corner of Lovejoy Library

East St. Louis middle school students who have been involved in the program will showcase the websites and other digital humanities products they have produced during the past three years.

Some of the students’ projects have included:

• Digital walking tours, where students photographed different East St. Louis neighborhoods and parks and posted them in online maps
• Oral history interviews, where students interviewed elders at the Clyde C. Jordan Senior Citizens Center in East St. Louis and turned them into podcasts
• Documentary films, where students researched such topics as the history of education, sports and music in East St. Louis and recorded and edited the video
• Coding and web design, where students built their own web pages 

For more information, contact Matt Johnson, with the STEM Center, at mattjoh@siue.edu or 618-650-3454.

A Season for the Child (SfC)--the family-oriented live theater season sponsored by the SIUE Friends of Theater and Dance (FOTAD)—continues its 28th season with a holiday classic that tells an age-old story that has entertained children and families for decades.

2 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 9
Katherine Dunham Hall Mainstage

The Nutcracker (the stage adaptation; not the ballet), by early 19th century author E.T.A Hoffmann, will be staged by the Imaginary Theatre Co., the traveling arm of the St. Louis Repertory Theatre.

Individual tickets for the Dec. 9 performance of The Nutcracker and the final show of the SfC 2017-18 season are $7 per person; children, $5; and are available through the SIUE Fine Arts box office, (618) 650-2774.

This has been a holiday fan favorite for FOTAD audiences for many years. The heartwarming centers on Marie, who is a little lonely after her family moves to a new town, but when her Godfather arrives with some mysterious Christmas Eve packages, she finds magic in very unlikely places. One of Godfather’s gifts is a wooden nutcracker that appears to be nothing more than a toy, but Marie soon discovers there may be more than meets the eye.

FOTAD, a support group for the SIUE Department of Theater and Dance, uses SfC proceeds to help fund merit awards for talented SIUE theater and dance students. Each year, FOTAD awards approximately $5,000 in merit scholarships to qualified students, also funding scholarships for new freshmen entering the theater and dance program.

FOX Sports Midwest will televise eight SIUE men's basketball games in 2017-18.

This marks the sixth consecutive year that FOX Sports Midwest, which features St. Louis Cardinals baseball and St. Louis Blues hockey, will serve as the television home of the Cougars.

FOX Sports Midwest reaches nearly 6 million homes. This season, for the first time, FOX Sports South and FOX Sports Southeast will televise several of the games in the package, bringing SIUE basketball to as many as 12 million additional homes.

The remaining game schedule:

Sun. Dec. 10:      South Alabama at 2 p.m.
Tue. Dec. 19:      Chicago State at 7 p.m.
Thu. Jan. 11:       Belmont at 7 p.m.
Sat. Jan. 20:       UT Martin at 1 p.m.
Sat. Feb. 3:         Jacksonville State at 1 p.m.
Sat. Feb. 10:       Murray State at 1 p.m.
Thu. Feb. 22:       Austin Peay at 7 p.m.

10 a.m.
Monday, Dec. 11
Morris University Center, Meeting Room A

As a reminder, these meetings are open to all faculty and staff.

The Chancellor invites you to ask questions, have a dialogue and/or express ideas that you might have.

Dr. Steve Singer, in the Department of Energy at the University of California-Berkeley, will present "The Joint BioEnergy Institute: Advanced Biofuels from Biomass"

3-4 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 11
Engineering Building, Room 1150

In an effort to build the bioeconomy in our region and create the Agriculture Coast of Midwest, NCERC is collaborating with Dr. Steve Singer, a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and director of the Microbial and Enzyme Discovery Group at the Joint BioEnergy Institute.

Singer received his PhD in organic chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison and performed postdoctoral research in microbial biochemistry at UC-Berkeley. His group applies the study of microbial communities, soil bacteria and filamentous fungi to improving the conversion of plant biomass and waste gases to biofuels and bioproducts.