The United Way of Greater St. Louis has named SIUE alumna Michelle Tucker as the organization’s next president and chief executive officer, effective April 2. The Edwardsville Intelligencer posted the story on Wed., Jan. 30. Read the story at Intelligencer.com.
An East St. Louis native, Tucker earned a bachelor’s in English from SIUE and a master’s in bu...
Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine (SIU SDM) alumnus Ron Riggins, DMD, has been named to the Delta Dental of Illinois Board of Directors.
Riggins earned a doctor of dental medicine from the SIU SDM in 2000. The Telegraph detailed his role as a board member in an article posted Tuesday, Jan. 29.
On her ascent up the corporate ladder, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumna Rebecca Cornatzer has never shied from taking opportunities. She emphasizes each experience’s ability to positively develop one’s character and career.
The director of human resources at S.M. Wilson & Co. is being recognized for her vital leadership and outstanding HR achie...
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering (SOE) is hosting the Innovators Educational Foundation’s Solar Car Annual Conference Friday-Sunday, Feb. 1-3.
More than 190 students and advisors for solar car teams from around the United States and Canada, and possibly Australia, will attend. The conference focuses on the 2019 solar car compe...
The Greater St. Louis Area Council for the Boys Scouts of America will host its annual University of Scouting event at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Vadalabene Center (VC) on Saturday, Jan. 26. More than 500 scouts and 300 adults are expected to attend and receive training for all levels of scouting.
The University of Scouting is designed to provide kn...
G. Christine Taylor, PhD, vice president and associate provost for diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Alabama, witnessed a cross burning in her neighborhood, was among the first to integrate an all-white elementary school at the age of five, and was welcomed and empowered by her white first-grade teacher to learn and succeed. These experiences and more fu...
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Interdisciplinary Research and Informatics Scholarship (IRIS) Center is advancing its valuable work in a new location on the second floor of Peck Hall (room 2226).
The Center specializes in helping students, faculty and community partners with digital humanities and social sciences projects and initiatives. Its new space is do...
U.S. News and World Report has ranked the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Nursing (SIUE SON) among the top 60 in its 2019 Best Online Master’s in Nursing Programs list released January 14. The SIUE SON improved 31 spots from a year ago to 53rd among 179 schools nationwide and is the top rated public institution in Illinois.
SIUE alumnus Tyler Yungck, BS exercise science 2014, has opened Revive Chiropractic in Edwardsville. Intelligencer reporter Julia Biggs profiled Yungck in this story posted Dec. 19.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Cougar Fest: Merchant and Volunteer Fair connected area businesses and non-profit organizations with students on Tuesday, Jan. 22.
Students learned about the products and mission of area merchants, and engaged with representatives about volunteer opportunities.
“We’ve benefited from large groups of SIUE volu...
The first Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. service project at the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Center (ESLC) included a unity walk around campus, a call to action, and a poster contest illustrating influential and successful East St. Louisans.
More than 50 SIUE students, including those from Collegiate 100, Black Girls Rock and Delta Sigma Thet...
The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education has upgraded Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to the newly created doctoral/professional universities category. SIUE was previously considered a master’s-large institution.
“This new categorization better reflects the powerful array of programs that SIUE offers and distinguishes it from many regional master&...
SIUE alumnus Brad Goacher, vice president and chief operating officer at Alton Memorial Hospital, has been named chairman-elect of the RiverBend Growth Association (RBGA) Board of Directors.
Goacher earned a master’s in business administration from SIUE in 1998.
The RiverBender.com detailed his professional career in an article posted Friday, Jan. 18.
The St. Louis Regional Chamber announced that Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s iCARE program is a finalist in the sixth annual Arcus Awards Ameren Corporate Citizenship Award category. The award is for enhancing the quality of life and making positive changes that impact St. Louisans across the social, cultural and economic spectrum through philanthropic g...
Do you know the journey, processing and environmental costs involved in getting the corn, green beans or carrots to your plate? Members of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s new sustainability group, From the Ground Up, want to inform you.
“People are becoming more aware of what they put in their bodies,” said Shea Walker, co-president wit...
For several parents and grandparents, it was as though the Christmas season was extended. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Head Start/Early Head Start Discovery Center for Little Scholars gave free car seats to 16 preschoolers on Wednesday, Jan. 16.
The gift was made possible by the Illinois State Police and two anonymous donors.
SIUE Director of Athletics Dr. Brad Hewitt has named Cale Wassermann as the eighth SIUE men’s soccer head coach in the program’s storied history.
Wassermann comes to SIUE after serving as recruiting coordinator and assistant coach at Michigan State for the past four seasons. He assisted in all facets of the men’s soccer program, including summer ca...
SIUE alumnus Tom Emery is giving the public a fresh look at Abraham Lincoln by sharing lesser-known stories from the President’s life in his new book: “Moments in Lincoln’s Life.”
Emery earned a master’s in business administration from SIUE in 1995. He is a freelance writer and historical researcher.
Two clients of the Illinois Small Business Development Center (SBDC) for the Metro East at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Tech Fusion and JB’s Smartphone Repair, decided to share space for their respective businesses with a ribbon cutting on Friday, Jan. 4.
Tech Fusion owners Julian Smith and Diego Espinoza met JB Smartphone Repair’s Josef Bosnyak ...
Being an African American woman can be hard. But when burnout is added to the mix, it can seem even more so. Tiana Clark, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, shares her feelings and struggles of burnout from a black woman’s perspective.
The research title says it all: “Improve Remote Education Using Telepresence Robots with Social Capacities.” The associated possibilities for educational advancement are endless.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering’s Mingshao Zhang, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, continues his development...
Anyone connected with SIUE, who had to drive on area roadways during last Friday’s snowstorm, certainly has an opinion about St. Louis area drivers and their winter driving capabilities. KMOX Radio featured research from SIUE’s Alan Black, assistant professor of geography in the College of Arts and Sciences, who compared St. Louis to more than a dozen cities su...
SIUE basketball players Cam and Kelsie Williams are twins, and their story was featured on KSDK-TV Sunday, Jan. 13. They're both playing for the Cougars while remembering their late father. View Josh Helmuth’s report.
Two Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumni are among the rising leaders named to the St. Louis Business Journal’s exclusive 40 Under 40 Class of 2019. The annual list showcases St. Louis area movers and shakers in both business and the community.
Among the honorees are alumni Lissa Johnson-Lewis and Ryan Perryman. Johnson earned a bachelor’s in busin...
The Illinois Small Business Development Center (SBDC) for the Metro East at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has equipped Empyre Laundry with the expertise to successfully launch its first laundromat in East St. Louis. Empyre Laundry’s ribbon cutting takes place from 9:30 -11 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19 at 3600 State St.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville students were greeted by friendly faces, offered direction to classes, assisted in finding their textbooks and surprised with delicious hot chocolate as the spring 2019 semester kicked off on Monday, Jan. 14. The Office of Student Affairs coordinated the warm welcome.
“Being greeted this morning really shows the warmth of ...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumnus David T. Jones is changing lives by putting his education in clinical child and school psychology to important use as commissioner of the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS) in Philadelphia.
Jones earned a bachelor’s in psychology in 1987, and a master’s in clinical chi...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Marc Hohlt, a senior chemistry and international studies double major, will spend the spring 2019 semester in Heredia, Costa Rica thanks in part to a generous grant from the Benjamin Gilman Scholarship Fund through the U.S. State Department.
“As a Gilman recipient, I look forward to helping others realize their ...
The St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame has announced legendary former SIUE softball Head Coach Sandy Montgomery will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in February at the Illinois Enshrinement Dinner.
“Sandy Montgomery is one of the four pillars that created the SIUE Athletics’ culture and tradition of excellence,” SIUE Athletic Director Bradley Hewitt said. &...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Associate Provost and Graduate School Dean Jerry Weinberg, PhD, has named Jill Smucker as director of graduate education. Smucker assumed her new duties at the turn of the New Year.
In her role, Smucker is responsible for administration of programs and services for graduate students, expansion of the master’s degree in...
The SIUE Suzuki program continues its positive national reputation as a premiere music program dedicated to string instruction for children ages 3-18.
The RiverBender.com recapped the program’s successful December Ensembles Concert and detailed the program’s history in an article posted Wednesday, Jan. 9.
In a new book dedicated to “teens everywhere who are working to understand who they are and how they fit in the world,” two Southern Illinois University Edwardsville psychology professors use evidence-based science to shed light on 50 widely held misconceptions related to adolescence.
Who better to share information on Southern Illinois University Edwardsville than those whose lives have been positively changed by their experiences as a student?
Through the SIUE Alumni Recruitment Ambassador Program, proud Cougar alumni are sharing their experiences and sparking interest in prospective students across the country.
SIUE alumnus John Huelskamp has been named executive director of the Beverly Farm Foundation. Huelskamp brings more than 20 years of leadership experience to his new post.
He earned a bachelor’s in political science in 1996 and a master’s of public administration in 2012, both from SIUE.
Additionally, fellow SIUE alumnus Eric Keith is now chief financial offi...
The Illinois Small Business Development Center (SBDC) for the Metro East at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is excited to be collaborating with accounting firm CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (CLA) and the Greater East St. Louis Business Development Association (GEBDA) to bring a specialized “Making Sense of the New Tax Law” workshop to Belleville from 11:30 a...
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Research, Outreach and Education has a new StarLab to share with area learners!
The STEM Center is hosting an essay contest for students grades 3-8 to win a free planetarium show in the new StarLab for their school. Students are invited to write an essay answer...
SIUE School of Education, Health and Human Behavior Interim Dean Paul Rose, PhD, shared his scholarly expertise on consumer psychology in a WalletHub article posted Monday, Jan. 7.
In the article, entitled “2019 Post-Holiday Shopping Season Survey,” Rose talks about buyer’s remorse, overspending and consumer outlooks. Read the article here.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Friends of Theater and Dance (FOTAD) will host a trivia night to increase support for theater and dance student travel.
The trivia night will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2 at The American Legion, 190 S. Main St. in Glen Carbon. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.
The cost is $10 per person, with up to eight people per table. There ...
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Anni Reinking’s new memoir “Not Just Black and White” is being featured among Publishers Weekly’s New and Notable Titles of African American Interest.
Reinking, EdD, is an assistant professor in the School of Education, Health and Human Behavior’s Department of Teaching and Learning. In “...