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St. Louis Public Radio featured Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s new Samoan Language and Conversation course on its daily program, “St. Louis on the Air.” During the interview with host Elaine Cha, instructor Viliamu (William) Fanene discussed the importance of preserving the Samoan language, the growing interest in Polynesian cultures, and how SIUE became one of only a handful of universities in the United States to offer a university-based Samoan l...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville served as a stage point for the Electrek American Solar Challenge on July 27 and 28, hosting more than a dozen collegiate solar car teams from across the U.S. and abroad, including the Netherlands, Canada, and Belgium, as part of the event's 1,500-mile route along the Great River Road and historic Route 66. The SIUE Solar Racing Team competed alongside the visiting teams, marking the University's return to national competition after...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Distinguished Research Professor Howard Rambsy II, PhD, is featured on St. Louis Public Radio's "St. Louis on the Air," discussing his new book, "Writing Black Panther: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Representation Struggles," published by Bloomsbury Academic. Rambsy examines how acclaimed journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates's 2016 entry into comics with Marvel's "Black Panther" reshaped the character and confronted the industry's long-standing stru...

Riverbender featured the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Department of Mass Communications event with local high schoolers this summer titled "Script to Screen: Producing a Short Film." The hands-on workshop was held June 15–18 and 22–25. The camp guided eight students through the full filmmaking process, from writing scripts and planning productions to camera work, audio recording, lighting, editing, and d...

WJBD Radio reported a Southern Illinois University Edwardsville forensic anthropologist played a key role in solving a decade-old missing persons case in Clinton County. The anthropologist used DNA evidence and dental records to positively identify skeletal remains found off Jolliff Bridge Road northwest of Centralia in 2021of a a Centralia man who had been missing since April 2014. 

The remains, a skull and more than 30 bones, ...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumna Carson Crow will screen her documentary about her late mother at the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase on July 26. The 25-minute film, which chronicles her mother Robin Cecilia Wheat's cancer diagnosis and lifelong devotion to Edwardsville, draws on interviews, family footage and historical records spanning generations. 

Crow, a video editor at the St. Louis-based company Splycehouse, began filming in August 2025 af...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's Solar Racing Team was featured in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ahead of the team's return to national competition for the first time in years. The article details the team's preparation for the American Solar Challenge, a multiday, 1,500-mile road race from Minneapolis to Amarillo, Texas, beginning July 25. 

The roughly 25-member student team hand-built a new solar car, named Orion, largely from scratch, including hand-solder...