Monday, March 19, 2018

Please note all the relevant weekly programming on WSIE 88.7 FM The Sound - your radio station located at SIUE.

The Blues Highway
An immersion into this truly American art-form comes complete with amazing music and witty banter. The staff at the National Blues Museum brings you educational entertainment from 5-7 p.m. Thursdays.

Financial Café
Blending good coffee with common sense financial information. Join us at 9 a.m. Saturdays.

Segue
Segue is a 30-minute public affairs program which features interviews and information regarding the latest developments impacting SIUE. The program also showcases community leaders and presents perspective on SIUE’s role in our region. Join us at 9 a.m. Sundays.

Voices
“Voices,” an hour-long radio-news magazine hosted by St. Louis radio personality Hank Thompson, airs at 6 p.m. Sundays, and focuses on social issues, politics and culture from an African American perspective.

Education Career Fair:

3-6 p.m.
Tuesday, March 20
Morris University Center, Second Floor Conference Center

Professional attire required and bring copies of your resume.

Don't forget your Cougar Card for registration at the door.

A list of attending employers can be found on the Career Development Center (CDC) website. Also, visit this link.

For more information, contact the CDC at 650-3708 or visit the website.

Campus Recreation is set to reopen the Intramural and Club Sports fields with new synthetic turf!

Join Campus Recreation at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 20 for the grand re-opening of the RecPlex Synthetic Turf.

The new synthetic turf encompasses the lighted recreation fields and softball field. The new turf will provide increased durability and safer playing surfaces to meet the needs of the intramural and club sports programs, along with student organization rentals.

There will be added cost savings for maintenance, which directly benefits our students by extending their play throughout the year.

For more information, contact Tom Dougherty at 650-3245.

SIUE's Office of Educational Outreach invites you to attend the spring 2018 Lifelong Learning Speakers Series every Wednesday on campus.

Wednesday, March 21
Morris University Center, Hickory-Hackberry Room

10:30-11:45 a.m. - Beer, Wine and Spirits, presented by Laura Fowler, PhD, associate professor and director of museum studies

1:15-2:30 p.m. - Artemisia Gentileschi: Portrait of a Baroque Artist as an Early Feminist, presented by Katherine Poole-Jones, PhD, associate professor of art history

Cost: $5 for general public, $2 for Lifelong Learning members and FREE for alumni and students (with valid student ID)

You don’t want to miss this exhilarating semester jam-packed with presentations that are sure to inform and educate!

To view the fall brochure or to become a Lifelong Learning member, please visit our website or contact coordinator, Eboni Thompson at 650-3233.

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literature announces the upcoming visit of Midwest Diplomat-in-Residence Melissa Martínez on Thursday, March 22.

11 a.m. – Presentation on careers in the Department of State.
Peck Hall 3417

2 p.m. – Coffee for Cool Women
Peck Hall 3407, Women’s Studies Office

Martínez holds a master’s in international and public affairs from the University of Columbia. She joined the U.S. Department of State in 2002 and was a Diplomat-in-Residence (DIR) at the Luskin School of Public Affairs Department of Public Policy at UCLA. Since August 2017, she has served as the DIR of the Midwest region.

These events are jointly organized by the Departments of Foreign Languages and Literature, and International Studies, as well as the Women’s Studies program.

For more information, please contact Carolina Rocha at crocha@siue.edu.

The Office of Human Resources is hosting the annual Summer Camp Showcase:

11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Thursday, March 22
Morris University Center, Conference Center

At the Summer Camp Showcase, SIUE employees can meet with summer programs, including those being offered by the University, as well as by businesses from the surrounding area.

As of today, the following summer camps have confirmed attendance:

Brickz 4 Kidz - St. Louis
Camp Manitowa
Camp Ondessonk
Edwardsville Children's Museum
Elite Fitness Training
Gateway Region YMCA
Grogan's Academy of Martial Arts
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (I.M.S.A.)
Mad Science of St. Louis
SIUE Healthcare Diversity Summer Camp

For more information, contact the Office of Human Resources at 650-2190 or email Benefits at benefitshr@siue.edu.

SIUE will host the regional Science and Engineering Research Challenge, which will showcase projects from students grades 5-12.

8-9:15 a.m. Exhibit set up
8-9:30 a.m. Judges check-in and training
9:30 a.m.-Noon Project judging
Saturday, March 24
SIUE's Morris University Center

To make this event happen, we need people like you to serve as volunteer judges. We will provide training, breakfast and a catered lunch.

For more information and to sign-up, please visit the SERC website.

Dr. Paul Rasmussen, the first recipient of the Dreikurs Visiting Scholar Fellowship from the Department of Psychology, will present "Why is Adlerian/Dreikursian Thinking Relevant Today?"

1:30-2:30 p.m.
Monday, March 26
Morris University Center, Meridian Ballroom
Q&A to follow

Rasmussen is an accomplished scholar and teacher and an expert in the study and practice of Adlerian Psychology.

Rasmussen will present key concepts of Adler-Dreikurs theory and practice, which focus on the holistic and socially-embedded nature of humans, and the belief that their emotions and motivations are goal-directed. He will consider these questions: If humans could reset and fix all the problems of life, what realities in terms of good ideas would persist? What resources would we consider the most optimal to face life realities? What constitutes a good idea in discussion of the human experience?

Registration is encouraged, but not required. More information is available in this SIUE News Story.

The SIUE's Mass Communications Week will be Monday-Friday, March 26-30 in the Morris University Center. This year’s theme is “Swiping Right on Media Convergence.”

The four-day conference is free and open to the public. It will feature five top communications professionals from around the United States: 

• Brittany Richter, vice president and head of social media for iProspect in New York City
• Brooke Huntley, director of Cox Analytics for Cox Media Group in Atlanta
• Schron Jackson, SIUE mass communications alumnus and public information manager for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department
• Chris Kilcullen, vice president and digital director of H&L Partners, and president of the Advertising Club of Greater St. Louis
• Daphne Valerius, filmmaker, producer and journalist from Columbia, Mo.

A full itinerary is available at siue.edu/MassComm/MCW2018. 

SIUE in collaboration with Centerstone, a local behavioral health organization, will present:

“Suicide: The Ripple Effect”
7-9 p.m. 
Monday, April 9
Morris University Center, Meridian Ballroom
Director Kevin Hines will be present to address the audience, and discuss resilience and recovery within mental illness. Hines is a nationally known speaker on suicide awareness and prevention.

We hope you will consider joining us, and please encourage students to attend this event!

The Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion would like to invite you to join us on our second annual Educational Culture Tour!

On Monday, April 16, we will travel by bus to Brooklyn/Lovejoy, Ill.—one of the oldest black incorporated towns in America—to learn about the relationship between SIUE (specifically Lovejoy Library), abolitionist Elijah P. Lovejoy and the nearby community of Brooklyn/Lovejoy. Faculty tour guide Associate Professor Prince Wells III will share insight as someone who grew up in Brooklyn/Lovejoy. 

Students, faculty and staff are all welcome and encouraged to attend. We will begin boarding the bus in Hairpin Drive at 8 a.m. and return by 11:30 a.m.

Please register online here as soon as possible to secure your spot on the tour.

For more information, contact Tameka Dunson at tdunson@siue.edu in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion.

SIUE encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please call the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion at 650-5382 in advance of your participation.

We hope you will join us!