Friday, Feb. 2, 2018

Dear Members of the Campus Community:

Our biweekly dialogues to support critical conversations and understanding around issues of campus climate for black students, faculty and staff, social justice, and our collective responsibility to build a sustainable campus environment will continue:

Noon-1:30 p.m.
Fridays, Today, Feb. 16, March 2, 16 and 30, April 13 and 27
Peck Hall, Room 2405

We remain grateful to all who have attended our fall semester sessions, shared their thoughts and/or listened carefully. The following dates cover the spring semester

Thank you,

Denise Cobb
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

The Pink Zone Game is at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3 in the Vadalabene Center on the SIUE campus.

The 2018 Pink Zone basketball game features the Cougars taking on Jacksonville State at 6 p.m. Raffle tickets will be available for purchase at the game. Winners will be selected at the conclusion of the women’s game.

Breast cancer survivors will be honored during the women’s game. Survivors receive free admission to the women’s game, and up to four complimentary tickets.

Call 855-SIUE-TIX to reserve your tickets today.

FOX Sports Midwest will televise eight SIUE men's basketball games in 2017-18.

This marks the sixth consecutive year that FOX Sports Midwest, which features St. Louis Cardinals baseball and St. Louis Blues hockey, serves as the television home of the Cougars.

FOX Sports Midwest reaches nearly 6 million homes. This season, for the first time, FOX Sports South and FOX Sports Southeast will televise several of the games in the package, bringing SIUE basketball to as many as 12 million additional homes.

The remaining game schedule:

Sat. Feb. 3:         Jacksonville State at 1 p.m.
Sat. Feb. 10:       Murray State at 1 p.m.
Thu. Feb. 22:      Austin Peay at 7 p.m. 

The Exercise Science Club, along with the Food and Nutrition Club, is once again holding their annual “Commit to be Fit” competition for all faculty and staff.

This friendly competition encourages our SIUE faculty and staff to be active by competing as teams of five-seven to accrue active fitness minutes each week.

Want to know more? There will be three optional informational sessions held:

11 a.m.-1 p.m. 
Tuesday, Feb. 6
Morris University Center, Board Room

11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 7
Morris University Center, Willow Room

3-5 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 8
Morris University Center, Board Room

Research recommends 150 minutes of moderate activity per week as a minimum, and this is a great opportunity to work up to that level or to exceed it based on your goals! Moderate exercise includes activities such as brisk walking, biking or dancing just to name a few.

Some things to know:
• You can form your own team with co-workers or friends on campus (teams do not have to be from within the same department)
• Graduate / Teaching Assistants are welcome to participate
• If you DO NOT have a team, but want to participate, you will be assigned to a team randomly
• Each team will be assigned a student coach from the Exercise Science or Nutrition Undergraduate Programs or the Exercise Physiology Graduate Program to help with goal setting, motivation and accountability.
• The competition officially begins on Monday, Feb. 26-Monday, April 16.
• The last day to sign up is Wednesday, Feb. 14, so don’t delay and get your team registered today!

Still have questions? You can email them to the above email address and the C2BF organizers will get back to you with an answer!

Thinking of starting a company to commercialize intellectual property? Come learn best practices from and ask questions of a panel featuring a local faculty entrepreneur, the Executive Director of the T-REX Innovation Center, and SIU’s technology transfer experts.

Know-How and Regional Resources for a Successful Start-Up Company:  Who Wants to Be a Billionaire
Tuesday, Feb. 6
12-1 p.m.
Morris University Center, Missouri Room

(Feel free to bring your lunch, and join us late or leave early if needed.)

Sponsored by the SIU Office of Technology Transfer and the SIUE Graduate School  

Figure Drawing is a time-honored practice of studying the human form as an artistic subject. It engages a professional collaboration between model and art students, in which dynamic poses are held still for various lengths of time in order to capture movement and expression.

Those who practice figure drawing regularly learn the underlying thought and processes that aid in conveying the human form convincingly.

12:30-2:30 p.m.
Fridays: Feb. 9 and 23, March 23, and April 13 and 27
Art & Design West, Room 2103

The cost is $6 per session or $30 for all six sessions.

Please register in person or online for Open Figure Drawing. Attendees must be 18 or older.

The schedule for the Saturday Studio Art Workshops runs from Feb. 17-April 21. All sessions will be held in the Art and Design West building on SIUE’s campus.

The registration deadline is Friday, Feb. 9.

There will be no class during the University Spring Break on March 10. 

Studio instruction is once again offered for grades K-12.
All classes are designed to stimulate creative growth. Emphasis is placed on developing skills in a variety of media and generating ideas for creative expression.

Art teachers in Saturday Studio classes are becoming certified art specialists and are art majors in the Department of Art and Design.

Please note the below classes:

Beginning Children’s Class: grades K-1
9:30-11:30 a.m.
Art and Design West 2139
Fee: $75, Limit: 15 students

Primary Children’s Class: grades 2-4
9:30-11:30 a.m.
Art and Design West 2140
Fee: $75, Limit:18 students

Intermediate Art Class: grades 5-8
9:30-11:30 p.m.
Art and Design West 2144
Fee: $75, Limit: 15 students

Advanced Art Class: grades 9-12
9:30-11:30 p.m.
Art and Design West 2206
Fee: $75, Limit: 18 students

For registration and more information, contact:
Dr. Sangsook Park at (618) 650-5825, spark@siue.edu 
Morgaine Denison at (618) 650-2824, mdeniso@siue.edu 

View the Saturday Studio website and flyer.

SIUE’s Speech-Language-Hearing Center, located in Founders Hall, is now enrolling for the spring 2018 semester .

The Center offers clients two 50-minute treatment sessions per week with a graduate student clinician, under the supervision of a licensed speech-language pathologist.

Current openings for Today-April 26 include:

Monday/Wednesday 9:30 a.m., 2 p.m.

Tuesday/Thursday 9:30 a.m., 4 p.m., 5 p.m.

Description of Services: Provides speech-language evaluations and therapy for children, adolescents, and non-Medicare-eligible adults in the following areas: speech, language, voice, fluency, traumatic brain injury, transgender voice, and accent modification for non-native speakers of English.

Tuition is $605 (payment plan available). Current SIUE students receive a 50 percent discount.

To schedule an appointment or for more information, contact the Center at 650-5623 or slhc-information@siue.edu.

The SIUE Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society is offering three awards to students. Applications are due by 4:30 p.m. Friday, March 2.

The awards include:
Undergraduate Scholarship: One scholarship of up to $750 (which must be applied to undergraduate or graduate tuition and fees at SIUE) may be awarded. Eligibility requirements: Must be an undergraduate with at least junior standing (60 hours) at the end of the fall semester 2017, must have a minimum GPA of 3.5, and must have earned at least 24 semester hours at SIUE by the end of the fall semester 2017. Students with a 100 percent waiver for tuition and fees are not eligible. Please note: Applicants DO NOT have to be PKP members. An additional award of $250 is available if the recipient is a PKP member or an inductee at the April 2018 ceremony.

Undergraduate Paper Contest: Three cash prizes of $200, $100 and $50 will be awarded for papers meeting the criteria. Submissions are to be scholarly essays or research papers on any academic topic that can be understood by a lay audience. This contest is open to ANY SIUE undergraduate.

Graduate Fellowship: Graduating seniors with superior academic and leadership records, who are or will be members of Phi Kappa Phi by the application deadline and who have applied to enroll as a full-time student in a post baccalaureate program of study for the 2018-19 academic year, are eligible to apply. One fellowship award of up to $1,000 will be given through our local chapter, and then this person will be entered into the national contest where 51 fellowships of $5,000 and six fellowships of $15,000 will be awarded (SIUE nominees have won a national award in the past!).