Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will honor seven remarkable graduates at the 2016 SIUE Alumni Hall of Fame ceremony A Night Among the Stars tonight in the Morris University Center. These alumni have achieved exploits in their respective fields, are role models and are testaments to SIUE’s educational excellence.
After a hiatus due to funds, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s East St. Louis Center Performing Arts will once again offer its after school program for students beginning Monday, October 3.
“The Metro East area has a world-renowned cultural legacy in the performing arts. The SIUE East St. Louis Center has played a principal part in that, with t...
SIUE men's basketball team will be part of the Ohio Valley Conference television package with ESPN this season.
The Cougars’ Thursday, Feb. 16 game at Murray State will be the first of an OVC doubleheader that night. The Cougars and Racers tipoff at 6 p.m. with the Morehead State/Tennessee State game following.
It marks the first time the Cougars have appeared ...
Fifteen Southern Illinois University Edwardsville students spent their summers retaining and sharing new knowledge, and inspiring youth and adults to get excited about science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The students participated in a diverse array of internships through SIUE’s Robert J. Noyce Scholarship Science and Math Grants, coordinated by t...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has achieved several sustainability successes in recent years and is looking forward to many more according to Interim Vice Chancellor for Administration Rich Walker.
“SIUE is committed to a sustainability vision and plan that will reduce the University's ecological footprint and enhance informal and formal sustainability ed...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville political science associate professors Ken Moffett and Laurie Rice have authored “Web 2.0 and the Political Mobilization of College Students” just in time for the stretch run in this year’s political races.
Faculty members in SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences, Moffett and Rice investigate how colleg...
Revved-up sports cars, space ships and “e’s” in varying eye-catching colors decorate the pavement around the Quad at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
The hand-made illustrations are part of SIUE’s Homecoming Chalk Drawing Contest. Twelve student organizations took part in Tuesday’s contest, according to Andrea Keller, assistant dire...
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Graduate School will host its annual Open House on Wednesday, Oct. 19. The event will consist of two identical sessions: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. in the Morris University Center’s Meridian Ballroom.
Prospective graduate students will receive information on SIUE’s more than 40 master’s programs, post-baccal...
Students cheered and listened to such songs as Darius Rucker’s “Wagon Wheel,” Maroon 5’s “Sunday Morning” and Sia’s “Chandelier” at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Homecoming Karaoke Event on Tuesday.
One by one, students came to the microphone in the Morris University Center Goshen Lounge and showed ...
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy (SOP) presented 82 students comprising its class of 2020, with their professional white coats during the 11th White Coat Ceremony held Friday, Sept. 23 in the Morris University Center’s Meridian Ballroom.
The official garment acknowledges the students’ important entrance into the Doctor of Pharma...
A chalk mural contest, karaoke, chili cook-off, free rides from Uber Eddie and more have the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus abuzz as students celebrate 2016 Homecoming, Monday, Sept. 26-Sunday, Oct. 2.
“Students look forward to homecoming every year,” said Dylan Stanley, graduate assistant in the Kimmel Student Involvement Center. “We&#...
The Illinois Education Research Council hosts its 14th annual statewide Focus on Illinois Education Symposium, Thursday-Friday, Sept. 29-30, at the Doubletree Bloomington Hotel.
Highlighting the schedule are two distinguished keynote speakers: Juan Salgado, president and chief executive officer of Instituto del Progreso Latino and 2015 MacArthur Genius Fellow; ...
A cadre of local business minds will offer practical expertise to small business owners at “Optimize the Madness,” a one-day conference aimed at arming companies with tools and operational resources they need to be successful.
An insurance specialist, an employment attorney, a payment solutions specialist and a social media expert are included in the slate of ...
Visitors to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s campus will find themselves immersed in artistic wonder during the 16th Annual Sculpture Walk being held at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, beginning in the lobby of Art & Design West.
The event is part of the “Sculpture on Campus” (SoC) program, and features 12 student-designed and installed sculptures d...
The Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s School of Education, Health and Human Behavior $4,000 to support youth literacy. The funding aims to support teachers, schools and organizations with resources to strengthen and enhance literacy instruction.
The grant is part of $4.5 million in youth literacy grants awarde...
President Obama has declared the week of Sept. 19-23, Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic Awareness Week, acknowledging the rise in drug overdose deaths across the country. Locally, heroin has infiltrated Madison County, contributing to 44 confirmed overdose deaths in 2015, a 50-percent increase compared to the prior year.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Chancellor Dr. Randy Pembrook today focused on both recent and historical successes as building blocks toward continuing positive momentum for the institution while presenting his first annual chancellor’s address to the campus community. The first-year chancellor spoke for more than 30 minutes in a crowded Meridian Ballroom ...
A group of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville undergraduate and graduate students experienced a historic moment first-hand when they viewed the launch of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Sept. 8.
The students are contributing to a NASA mission through their work with CosmoQuest, an innovative virtual research facility ...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will host its first homecoming event that mixes physical exercise with miles of fun for the purpose of raising scholarship dollars for students.
The SIUE Alumni Association, Campus Recreation and Campus Activities Board are co-hosting Cougars Unleashed Homecoming Run on Saturday, Oct. 1, said Cathy Taylor, dir...
SIUE’s Brad Noble, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the School of Engineering, participated in a discussion on autonomous vehicles during an Aug. 23 segment of Conversation with Lee Presser.
Noble’s appearance will air at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 26 on Charter channel 994.
A mother-daughter business in Columbia, Ill., is celebrating its first anniversary, thanks to its owners’ hard work and the expertise they received from the Illinois Metro East Small Business Development Center.
Warm N Cozy Quilting, located at 235 North Main St. in Columbia, fills a unique niche in the world of quilting. Co-owners Debbie Chitty and her daughter, Da...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville students, faculty, staff and surrounding community members are getting active, enjoying the outdoors and appreciating healthy living through their participation in the 2016 Outdoor Nation Campus Challenge.
Participants are actively exploring SIUE’s campus while running, biking, slacklining, enjoying yoga and more. View a vid...
SIUE hosted its second Early Childhood STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) conference on Monday, Sept. 19. Nearly 200 educators and education students attended the conference, where they were inspired to enhance integrated learning.
The Alton Telegraphhighlighted the interactive conference in an article posted Tuesday, Sept. 20.
As this new academic year gets underway, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville continues to experience tremendous campus growth.
SIUE is nearing the completion of an extensive, more-than-$300-million construction and infrastructure improvement plan that already has resulted in thousands of students, faculty, staff and campus visitors enjoying numerous finished additio...
St. Louis Blues broadcaster John Kelly will appear on WSIE-FM’s Segue program at 9 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 25. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Greg Budzban, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, hosts the weekly public affairs program on FM 88.7, The Sound.
An SIUE Department of Mass Communications alumnus, Kelly (’82) discusses his career pre...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is celebrating 2016 Homecoming with a weeklong series of events targeting current students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members. This year’s events begin Monday, Sept. 26, running through Sunday, Oct. 2 on the SIUE campus.
This year’s student theme is “Back to the E.” The schedule of student events...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will host “We Are One … Are We?” Monday, October 3, in the Morris University Center Conference Center. The SIUE Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion will present the event.
“SIUE espouses the ‘We Are One’ philosophy regarding diversity and inclusion,” said Venessa A. Brown, Ph...
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Department of Music will present a Jazz Combo Concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20 in Dunham Hall Theater on campus.
Approximately 30 students of the SIUE Jazz Department will be divided into six jazz combo groups and delight audiences with live music, according to Jason Swagler, director of Jazz Studies.
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville community is mourning the loss of senior College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) student Brittany Godfrey, who died during the weekend from injuries sustained in an ATV accident in Calhoun County, Illinois. The Elgin native was 22.
A criminal justice/pre-law major, who was on track to graduate in December, Godfrey also served as th...
When a person imagines a classroom, a more traditional visual may come to mind—students arranged in rows, quickly jotting down notes off slides that accompany a lecture. That standard method of teaching and learning has proved useful in academia. But, perhaps, a flipped perspective, a creatively reversed approach, would prove more successful for the generation and re...
Structure Magazine, a national publication from the leading associations of structural engineers, has ranked the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering’s civil engineering structural program among the top 16 percent in the nation in its latest curriculum survey of more than 250 engineering schools.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Arts & Issues will present CROSSROADS: A Conversation about America’s Future at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11 at the Morris University Center Meridian Ballroom. The conversation will feature Juan Williams and Cal Thomas.
With one of the most contentious elections in U.S. history coming in November, Williams and Th...
With the influx of digital technology in classrooms, the educational benefits abound for many students. But the accessibility of those gadgets is lacking for approximately six million U.S. students with special needs. This means inclusive learning environments as they are most often perceived, are not so inclusive after all.
Three Southern Illinois University Edwardsville...
OnlineColleges.com ranks Southern Illinois University Edwardsville as the No. 1 most affordable four-year college in Illinois, among 69 institutions. See the rankings at onlinecolleges.com/Illinois.
“The more important aspect is the high quality education provided by SIUE for the investment,” said Scott Belobrajdic, associate vice chancellor for enrollment man...
Ser Seshsh Ab Heter – C.M. Boxley told a Southern Illinois University Edwardsville audience that he started down a path chasing materialism, only to veer off seeking truth and equality about the history of African Americans. Boxley’s journey resulted in his “ancestors” driving him back to rediscover the Forks of the Road in his hometown of Natchez, ...
Faculty from the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy (SOP), and the SIU Schools of Dental Medicine (SDM) and Medicine (SOM) shared their scholarship on pain education with an audience of more than 2,300 at PAINWeek, the largest interdisciplinary pain conference in the U.S. The 10th annual event was held Sept. 6-10 in Las Vegas.
Purchasing an existing business can be complex, particularly for first-time business owners. That is why Roberta and Joseph LaSalvia, co-owners of CenterStage Dance Apparel & Costume House in Belleville, are grateful to the Illinois Metro East Small Business Development Center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville for guiding them through the acquisition process.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Upward Bound EC and BEM students participated in a five-week Food Science and Technology Program presented by PryCor Technologies, LLC, a start-up science and engineering technology company based in St. Louis.
Read more about the new program that was offered this summer in the St. Louis American.
SIUE alumnus Angela Heise, a visionary leader named among Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women-Next Generation, has been named president of the Civil Group at Leidos.
According to the global science and technology solutions company, Heise’s focus areas are energy and the environment, utilities, manufacturing and industrial, federal infrastructure, and air tr...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is situated in one of the “Safest College Towns in America,” according to the 2016 SafeWise Report. Edwardsville ranked 25th on the list of 30 towns.
In an article posted Monday, Sept. 12, The Edwardsville Intelligencer detailed the ranking and expanded on the collaborative efforts of SIUE Police and the Edwardsville P...
U.S. News & World Report ranks Southern Illinois University Edwardsville among the best Regional Universities Midwest for the 13th consecutive year and among the top 15 public universities in that category. SIUE is also rated among the top Midwest Regionals for least amount of student debt upon graduation. The listing is in the magazine’s “Best Colleges of 2017...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Stratton Quad was blanketed with 1,100 backpacks on Monday, Sept. 12 to raise awareness about suicide prevention. The empty backpacks and the stories displayed on them offered an emotional representation of the number of college students who die by suicide each year.
The Send Silence Packing display is presented by Active ...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has received the 2016 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. This is the third year that SIUE has earned the distinction.
As a recipient of the annual HEED Award—a national honor recognizing U....
The historic and largely untold dark story about the second largest slave trading market in America before the Civil War, which operated in Natchez, Miss., is on display at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Elijah P. Lovejoy Library.
Desserts Out The Jar and More founder and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alum Yashica McKinney earned first place in the first regional business plan pitch competition hosted by the
East St. Louis Initiative (ESLI). Meanwhile, two Illinois Metro East Small Business Development Center clients finished in the top three.
Southern Illinois University President Randy Dunn hosted a scaled down event today for the Edwardsville campus’ new chancellor Dr. Randy Pembrook in the Morris University Center’s Meridian Ballroom.
A crowd of more than 300 SIUE faculty, staff and students, along with community members, higher education leaders from around the region and representatives of...
The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees, at its regularly scheduled meeting on the Edwardsville campus today, approved contracts worth more than $3.5 million to construct a student project design center for the School of Engineering. The board also approved budgets to resurface parking lots at the SIU School of Dental Medicine in Alton and to replace flooring ma...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will host its annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. Applications are being sought for the following award categories: MLK Humanitarian Award for Community Leader and Faculty/Staff.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will host its annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. Applications are being sought for the following award categories: MLK Humanitarian Award for Community Leader and Faculty/Staff.
For his ongoing advocacy work in mental health, and diversity and inclusion, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alum Jonathan H.N. Long received the Urban League Young Professionals of Metropolitan St. Louis 2016 Distinguished Young Professional Award.
Long, who graduated from SIUE in 2011 and 2014 with bachelor’s and master’s in sociology, respec...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville graduate student Steven Houk received the Sharon Mutter Professional Advancement Award for contributions to the Marketing Research Association (MRA). Houk will receive the award when he attends the MRA conference in Chicago on Friday, Sept. 9.
The award is given in honor of Mutter’s memory to those who exemplify her ...
Current and prospective Southern Illinois University Edwardsville students need to be aware of significant changes in the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) process.
Students will now begin annually filing their FAFSA on October 1, which is three months earlier than in the past. Beginning Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016, students will file their 2017-18 FAFSA using 2...
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville iCARE (Initiative to Create Awareness, Recognition, and Education on Suicide Prevention) will offer multiple opportunities to join in the conversation about mental health wellness during International Suicide Prevention Awareness Week, Sept. 5-11.
The initiative launched an awareness video this week to initiate this important ...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has recorded its third-highest all-time enrollment with 14,142 students registered for fall 2016.
“In the ultra-competitive higher education marketplace in which SIUE is competing and combined with other factors beyond our control, we are proud to maintain total enrollment above 14,000,” said Dr. Randy Pembrook, ...
Because Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alum Tiffany Grimmett Lee knows about the incredible accomplishments and contributions made by people from her native East St. Louis, she wanted to pass on this history to others.
Lee and Reginald Petty co-wrote, Legendary East St. Louisans: An African American Series. Lee’s company, TiffanyRose Publishing, published...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Business Interim Dean Tim Schoenecker, PhD, says the School’s mission is all about adding value, to students, business partners and the community.
It’s a mission he intends to fulfill during his tenure as interim dean, by building on the momentum that’s been built through curriculum development and exte...
For the seventh-consecutive year, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is in Washington Monthly’s Top 60 for master’s universities in the nation. SIUE is third among all master’s institutions in Illinois on the national magazine’s list.
Unlike conventional college rankings, Washington Monthly evaluates an institution’s “contributio...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Denise Cobb, interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, today announced a new partnership with the T-REX Innovation Center located in downtown St. Louis. The partnership will provide new opportunities for SIUE faculty and students to connect with the burgeoning entrepreneurial community in the St. Louis regio...
Lisa Lubsch, PharmD, clinical associate professor in the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy, has been appointed president of the Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group (PPAG). She had served as president-elect for the past year.
PPAG’s membership spans 50 states and 20 foreign countries, and is the primary resource for pediatric medication thera...