"College of Arts and Sciences" News
18 April 2024, 2:00 PM
On the afternoon of April 15 at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus, parking lot 8, a Mass Casualty Simulation took place.
As part of the Care of Populations course, the community health students in collaboration with the mental health students and Mass Communication Department joined Edwardsville Fire/EMS, Air Evac Helicopter and other emergency response vehicles for the training exercise.
Robert Morgan, assistant fire chief of the Edwardsville Fire Department and Siyanbol...
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11 April 2024, 4:50 PM
Two of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s leaders and practitioners of inclusiveness were honored for their longtime efforts, in light of the work of Southern Illinois University (SIU) System’s architect of antiracism, diversity, equity and inclusion (ADEI) at the SIU School of Medicine.
Venessa A. Brown, PhD, and Kathryn Bentley, MFA, each received the prestigious Dr. Wesley G. Robinson-McNeese ADEI Lifetime Achievement Award for 2024 at the SIU Board of TrusteesR...
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10 April 2024, 12:15 PM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will honor the legacy of pioneering architect Louis Sullivan on the centennial anniversary of his passing with a two-day event. On Thursday, April 11 from 5-7 p.m. at the Noise Box Gallery in Art & Design East, The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and the Lovejoy Library will host an opening reception to kick off festivities. Friday, April 12, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., CAS and Lovejoy will hold a full day of presentations and exhibitions celebrating the co...
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3 April 2024, 3:30 PM
The Center for Predictive Analytics (C-PAN) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is offering data science workshops to the public, free of charge.
The workshop series was created to democratize data science training, by providing free access to faculty, students and staff within the Southern Illinois University (SIU) System, which encompasses SIUE and Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC). With the workshop series gaining momentum, C-PAN has created a repository of resour...
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2 April 2024, 12:00 PM
During a recent segment on “Great Day St. Louis” broadcast on First Alert 4, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Geovonday Jones, assistant professor of performance in the Department of Theater and Dance, appeared with Ron Himes, founder and producing director of the Saint Louis Black Repertory Company. Jones directed the company’s theatre production of “Wedding Band,” by playwright Alice Childress.
The interview may be found at this link. Jones...
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29 March 2024, 12:00 PM
The recent Essentially Ellington Festival, co-sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln Center, was hosted for its tenth year on Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus on March 22 at Dunham Hall Theater.
High school jazz ensembles had a full day of master classes with top clinicians Reginald “Reggie” Thomas, Christopher Dorsey, Tatum Greenblatt and Dr. Bennett Wood, ending the day with a 7:30pm concert. An afternoon Open Rehearsal featured the SIUE Concert Jazz Band, led by Thomas w...
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27 March 2024, 3:10 PM
A dynamic one-woman performance that takes audiences on the poignant and powerful journey of a young girl’s self-discovery will unfold at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 4 at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Metcalf Theater.
Dr. Juhanna Rogers will present “Shattering,” an acclaimed, poetic performance that gives clarifying focus to the life of young Nicole as she grows into her true self – Juhanna. The free production is being sponsored by SIUE’s Col...
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22 March 2024, 9:30 AM
The 109-year-old doesn’t sleep well at night. The atrocities and terrors of May 31-June 1, 1921, still seem as though they will engulf Viola Ford Fletcher, like the flames that burned down her home and others during the Tulsa Race Massacre on Black Wall Street in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Okla.
Fletcher, also widely known as “Mother” Fletcher, spent the day on Tuesday, March 19 at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville talking to audiences and promoting her...
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12 March 2024, 10:25 AM
For 21 high school students, their hard work and perseverance paid off in a big way when they learned they received Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s 2024 Meridian Scholarships.
The Meridian Scholarship is the University’s most prestigious academic award. Designed for exemplary students, it covers four years of tuition, fees, housing, and meal plan. Scholarship awardees also participate in SIUE’s John Martinson Honors Program.
SIUE Chancellor James T. Mi...
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11 March 2024, 12:29 PM
Elyse Ibata, a second-year genetics and cell biology major in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, will present at the Central States Communication Association (CSCA) undergraduate honors conference as a Top Three Paper in their undergraduate honors research session. Ibata is an honors student under the guidance of Jessica Hutchins, PhD, interim director of SIUE Honors College, in the John Martinson Honors Program. Ibata's paper is titled “...
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7 March 2024, 1:15 PM
April is Jazz Appreciation Month and WSIE 88.7 The Sound, broadcasting from the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, will celebrate by hosting “WSIE Jazzathon” Wednesday, April 17th from 3 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. This event is a primary fundraiser for this heritage station.
WSIE made its on-air debut on Sept. 4, 1970 and has been a fertile training ground for broadcasters, who include some of the greats in the radio broadcast industry. This premier outlet is one of the ...
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27 February 2024, 1:05 PM
Research on the spiritual impact of Black women’s travel appears light, if not altogether absent in literature, despite the weightiness and significance of their contributions throughout history. To remedy this, Tisha Brooks, PhD, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville College of Arts and Sciences associate dean and associate professor, wrote her own book, "Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel".
Brooks is one of three authors who will be part of “...
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23 February 2024, 9:50 AM
It’s a “line” that not everyone can cross. But for those who are able and willing, what causes them to do so? Is it the belief someone can leave behind adversity and bias to walk into a life of comfort and opportunities? Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Donavan L. Ramon, PhD, explores these questions and looks at various analyses and more in his book, “Striking Features: Psychoanalysis and Racial Passing Narratives.”
Ramon, assistant professo...
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20 February 2024, 1:48 PM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) is now a host site for the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools®. Fifty middle school students from Metro East communities will have the opportunity to enroll in an educational model that identifies as “the intersection of well-being and racial justice for children and youth.” SIUE’s site will be hosted at the Edwardsville campus and will run for six weeks, June 10 through July 19. The 2024 grand opening of ...
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19 February 2024, 5:22 PM
The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus community extends our sincerest condolences to the family of Randy Paul Rock who died Wednesday, Feb. 14, at University Care Center in Edwardsville. He was 76.
Rock’s journey at SIUE started as a student. He earned a Bachelor of Science (1969) and Master’s in English and History (1979). He taught English 101 and 102 and served as the Dean of Students from 1994 to 2003. Rock received his 30-year service award in April 2001 and retire...
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29 December 2023, 8:08 PM
Along the Rio Grande located at the United States-Mexico border sits Eagle Pass, Tx, hometown of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Adriana Martinez, PhD. Martinez, an associate professor in geography and environmental sciences, has spent years researching the impact of border security, and most recently, the effectiveness of large buoys installed on the river by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. As Martinez captured in a photograph on her recent research trip, migrants traveling t...
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21 December 2023, 11:44 AM
The following is an article by SIUE student Winter Racine, second-year mass communications student in the College of Arts of Sciences (CAS), and a Senator for Students with Disabilities
Area high school students got a taste of college life through outreach experiences coordinated by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville English faculty during the fall semester.
Howard Rambsy, PhD, Distinguished Research Professor of English Language and Literature, worked with a select group of stu...
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11 December 2023, 12:40 PM
The Kimmel Belonging and Engagement Hub at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville hosted five special celebrations to recognize graduates representing diverse populations during the week of Dec. 4-8, ahead of the University’s fall 2023 commencement exercises being held Friday-Saturday, Dec. 15-16.
Students were honored during the following special observances: Hispanic/Latinx, Black, Lavendar (formerly Rainbow), Asian-Asian American-Pacific Islander-Desi American, and Non-Traditi...
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11 November 2023, 12:35 PM
“There’s power in the student voice and my presence here,” said Winter Racine, a second-year mass communications student in the College of Arts of Sciences (CAS), and a Senator for Students with Disabilities. “Advocacy can bring about transformation.” Racine was one of a number of speakers who introduced the fifth annual Ed Roberts Champions of Accessibility Celebration in the Morris University Center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville on Monday, Nov. 6.&#...
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10 November 2023, 3:29 PM
The Alestle, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s student news organization, recently won several national awards during the 102nd annual Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Association National College Media Convention. This year marks the most national awards for which The Alestle was nominated and received.
For the first time since the 1990s, The Alestle was a finalist for the ACP Pacemaker for its website alestlelive.com. The Pacemaker is the highest honor in collegiate m...
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