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Southern Illinois University Edwardsville honored eight remarkable graduates at the 2019 SIUE Alumni Hall of Fame ceremony, “A Night Among the Stars,” on Friday, Sept. 27 in the Morris University Center (MUC). These impressive alumni have made exceptional contributions in their chosen fields, in their communities and at SIUE through their leadership, character ...

Rising scholars and aspiring ecologists and archaeologists, showcased the culmination of an eight-week, intensive undergraduate research experience hosted by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, in collaboration with the Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, during the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Symposium held...

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker visited the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville on Tuesday, July 30 where he signed House Bill 2239, designating both elected SIU System student trustees to be full voting members of the board. The signed amendment takes effect immediately.

The legislation was introduced by Rep. Katie Stuart (112^th district) and was sponsore...

The Illinois Small Business Development Center (SBDC) for the Metro East at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville celebrates Sweet Katie Bees’ July expansion to a new location at 131 E. First St. in O’Fallon.

Owners Kate Hendrix and her daughter, Beth, are delighted to take their business to new heights by offering customers inclusive options for treats an...

There were applauds, shouts and cries of exaltations for jobs well done – and expectation of what is to come. Students in the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Center Upward Bound Math and Science (UBMS) Cahokia-Madison and Upward Bound Scholar’s Academy (UBSA) were awarded with medals, ribbons and trophies acknowledging their commitment ...

It was a career activity of a slightly different kind. Students sat at tables as the interviewers, asking questions of doctors, nurses, lawyers, judges, engineers, educators, entrepreneurs and more. 

Thirty-one students and 35 professionals participated in a Career Day hosted by the SIUE East St. Louis Center Upward Bound’s Math and Science (UBMS) Cahokia-Madis...

Success in the highly competitive building industry requires exceptional leadership, management and communication skills. The innovative Construction Leadership Institute (CLI) has packaged those skills into a convenient, accelerated nine-week program beginning Jan. 10, 2020 on the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus. SIUE is now accepting registrations for th...

From investigating forensic evidence and building, coding and battling robots to getting an up-close look at incredible birds of prey like owls and hawks, students attending the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville STEM Center’s Odyssey Science Camp are becoming enthralled with the possibilities of a future in STEM.

Odyssey Science Camp has a long history of ...

The City of Highland is pleased to bring the valuable small business expertise of the Illinois Small Business Development Center (SBDC) for the Metro East at SIUE to area entrepreneurs and business owners.

On Thursday, Aug. 22, entrepreneurs throughout the region are encouraged to attend the “Starting a Small Business in Illinois” workshop presented by SBDC Sm...

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Business Executive Education program is excited to announce its upcoming professional development courses and workshops.

Excel Fundamentals
Friday, September 20
Fee:  $125
8 a.m.-12 p.m.
SIUE Main Campus – Engineering Building             &#16...

After researching the program, Neshay Sanders thought it was too good to be true, and while she was nervous about leaving home, the Chicago native knew she could not pass up a chance to be part of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s inaugural Summer Success Program. 

“This is such a great program. You get six credit hours for free,” exclaime...

A fierce commitment to lifelong learning, a strategic management approach and a strong passion for seeking opportunities for intellectual engagement are just a few of the attributes that have helped Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumna Ronda Sauget achieve significant professional success.

Sauget, executive director and CEO of the Leadership Council Southweste...

Team Illinois Youth Police Camp, which meets on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, had its largest graduating class this year. 

The 15^th annual residency program was held from Sunday, July 14-Saturday, July 20. The camp offers guidance and support to youth, ages 13-17, who are under many societal pressures. It is coordinated by the Illinois Stat...

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Business is hosting 15 German students from its partner institute, Hochschule Hannover, for its intensive Summer Financial Institute (SFI) being held June 30-Aug. 3. The five-week program is designed to educate the visiting students with a basic understanding of North American financial and managerial accounting, corp...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will receive $5.7-million to fund three special projects, including replacement of the sand filters and a digester lid at the Waste Water Treatment Plant, water valve replacement across the Edwardsville and Alton campuses, and a renovation and expansion of the campus greenhouse. The projects will be managed by the Illinois Capital ...

With movie scores from “Star Wars,” “Jurassic Park” and “Shrek,” to musical numbers like “Just My Imagination,” “Girl on Fire” and “Hedwig’s Theme (1992),” students from the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Performing Arts Summer Enrichment Program displayed Hollywood-insp...

The last day of the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Center Upward Bound (UB) EC/BEM summer program was fun, enlightening, and packed with a video game demonstration, a successful blood drive, a step show and a luncheon awards ceremony. 

“We wanted to plan a day that would showcase our students’ talents, give them an opportunity fo...

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering’s (SOE) solar car team received the battery pack design award at the 2019 Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) held July 1-8 in Austin, Texas.

As the American Solar Challenge (ASC) and FSGP are transitioning to featuring a 4-wheel class of
“cruiser” (a multi-occupant vehicle with doors) and a...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Terri Poirier, PharmD, MPH, FASHP, FCCP and professor of pharmacy practice and senior scholar in the School of Pharmacy (SOP), received the 2019 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award at the AACP Annual Meeting in Chicago on Sunday, July 14.

The criteria include candidates ...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Chancellor Randy Pembrook today named Tim Hall as the eighth director of athletics in University history. Hall arrives on campus after serving as director of athletics at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) and is expected to assume his new duties in August. The appointment is subject to approval by the SIU Board of ...

Two leading early childhood experts and faculty members in the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Education, Health and Human Behavior (SEHHB) Department of Teaching and Learning have been competitively selected to serve as Illinois Gateways to Opportunity Faculty Fellows.

As Faculty Fellows, Stacie Kirk, PhD, professor and early childhood education progr...

It was surprising to watch students rein in their excitement during the summer program, listen and follow instructions, work together, and focus to complete a work of art.

Students, ages 5-14, from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Center’s (ESLC) Project Success program participated in The Children’s Quilting Project: Healing through Ar...

The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees today approved contracts for the Founders Hall Swing Space renovation, established open-service contracts to retain general contractor services and purchased the Blackboard course management software license for the Edwardsville campus during its regularly scheduled meeting on the Springfield campus.

The board approved co...

During its regularly scheduled meeting on the Springfield campus, the Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees (BOT) today approved Mark Luer, PharmD, FCCP, as dean of the SIUE School of Pharmacy (SOP) and Robin Hughes, PhD, as dean of the SIUE School of Education, Health and Human Behavior (SEHHB).

Luer steps into the role after serving as interim dean si...

SIUE alumnus Bill Bass, an innovation coordinator for technology integration, information and library media in Missouri’s Parkway School District, is serving as president of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). In this role, he is leading his professional peers in helping to reshape educational experiences for students around the world.

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A team of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville mass communications students and alumni, under the direction of instructor Cory Byers, proved victorious at the St. Louis 48 Hour Film Project held in June.

The crew of 10 and cast of nine created Recipe for Disaster, a spy/espionage film. The short film took home awards for Best Film, Best Actress, Best Make Up and Grou...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville graduate student Sydney Boschert, of Alton, has been named a Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) Scholar and will receive a $10,000 scholarship to be used in the 2019-20 academic year. Boschert is pursuing a master’s in accountancy (MSA) in the SIUE School of Business.

The SIUE accounting program is a qualified...

Queen Beedz, a client of the Illinois Small Business Development Center (SBDC) for the Metro East at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville since 2017, celebrated its second anniversary on July 1, much to the delight of owner Susan Hackney.

Hackney started her jewelry business as a hobby, with the simple intention of making bracelets to fit her wrists - she never dream...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Miranda Buiter is one of three students nationally to serve on the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) Assembly. Buiter is among the fifth cohort in SIUE’s College Student Personnel Administration (CSPA) program through the Department of Educational Leadership.

“This is a unique opport...

The Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine (SIU SDM) has honored four distinguished students with its annual Dean’s Scholarship. The SDM also announced the Dr. Larry A. Lowe Memorial Scholarship to two recipients.

The Dean’s Scholarship was created with the goal of rewarding academic merit, assisting with financial need and increasing student d...

In a long tradition of providing great jazz music for Southwestern Illinois and the Greater St. Louis region, WSIE 88.7 FM The Sound at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is turning up the heat to the delight of its listeners, increasing its exposure and drawing more support.

The recent improvements are courtesy of WSIE’s new general manager, Jason Church, wh...

SIUE alumna Bethany Luebbers is one of three Ameren Illinois employees and 76 individuals nationwide being recognized as an “up and coming professional” on Public Utilities Fortnightly’s “Fortnightly Under Forty” list.

Luebbers earned a bachelor’s in civil engineering from the SIUE School of Engineering in 2012. She works as a supervisi...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Art and Design West building is bustling with activity this summer as children grades K-8 are expressing themselves creatively through exciting art lessons in innovative media during Summer Arts camp.

Three Monday-Friday sessions of Summer Arts camp ran June 17-21, June 24-28, and are continuing July 8-12 with themes of 2-...

Higher education has expanded to become a more global endeavor with increased competition. That’s why Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Effie Hortis, assistant director of first year services in the Office of Academic Advising, believes institutions need to be global campuses that connect, network and share resources.

As appointed chair of the Nation...

Healing Naturally Boutique, LLC, an all-natural and organic skincare, clothing, and CBD oil boutique held its grand opening on Sat., July 6 in Lebanon. Owner Kili Green worked with the Illinois Small Business Development Center (SBDC) for the Metro East at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and business specialist Marti Guntren to successfully develop a business pla...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has named James Burgdorf as the associate director of financial affairs for Bursar Operations (SIUE Bursar), effective Tuesday, June 25. Burgdorf takes over the responsibilities of Cathy Foland, who retired June 30 after 25 years of service at the University, including 11 as SIUE Bursar.

Prior to joining SIUE, Burgdorf built an ex...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville sophomore Jessie Charpentier, of Edwardsville, fulfilled a lifelong dream this summer while studying abroad in Florence, Italy. The psychology major studied Italian renaissance history alongside six fellow SIUE students from May 21-June 21.

Charpentier says her desire for travel was inspired at a young age by the Lizzie McGuire Mo...

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Nursing (SON) hosted U.S. Senator Dick Durbin on Tuesday, July 2.

Durbin toured the SON’s WE CARE Clinic, located on the University’s East St. Louis Higher Education Campus. Clinic Director Ricki Loar, PhD, APRN, shared an overview of the comprehensive care provided by clinicians at the WE CARE Clinic. Sh...

SIUE’s Summer Arts Camp offers children a chance to explore their artistic talents through engaging activities using a variety of innovative media.

The Intelligencer’s Scott Marion visited the second of the camp’s three sessions to capture the summer fun. View his feature story here.

For Southern Illinois University Edwardsville senior Emily Fulton, conducting research through fish sampling and archaeological excavation are experiential learning opportunities she couldn’t let pass by.

Her curiosity toward analyzing how humans have used the river system over the last 2,000 years was shared by approximately 100 aspiring scientists and scholars f...

Wishing you and yours a very Happy 4th of July from SIUE.

The offices of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will be closed Thursday, July 4, 2019. Offices will re-open Friday, July 5, 2019. 

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is providing options for Lindenwood University-Belleville (LUB) students, who are interested in transferring during the 2020 academic year after courses are discontinued at the LUB campus.

“SIUE is providing transfer credit for Lindenwood-Belleville students and an opportunity for those students to complete their studie...

SIUE alumnus Robert Werden was sworn in as Madison County Regional Superintendent of Schools on Monday, July 1.

Werden earned a master’s in educational administration from SIUE in 2011.

The new leader was featured in an article posted Monday, July 1 in The Telegraph.

Keeping with its mission to engage, educate and empower Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Cougars for life, the Alumni Association’s latest act of service includes the building and donation of a Little Free Library in Cougar Village.

“It is simple, giving back to the SIUE community is the reason many of those on our Board of Directors are serving,&#822...

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering (SOE) will receive $25,000 this year from Ameren in support of research equipment acquisition and research studies being performed in the SOE’s new Power Systems Lab, which is currently in development.

The Power Systems Lab will present potential areas of collaboration between Ameren and the SIUE SO...