Monday, Oct. 8, 2018

The Honorary Degrees and Distinguished Service Award Committee invites nominations from the University community for consideration by the committee. All departments and schools are asked to consider and submit deserving nominations. 

Please visit siue.edu/ugov/faculty/hdegree/ for details on the criteria for submission and the nomination forms. A list of former recipients is available for review on the University Archives website siue.edu/lovejoylibrary/archives/commence.shtml.

Please note that current University employees are not eligible for awards. 

Nominations must be received no later than close of business today. Submissions should include the appropriate nomination form along with biographical information. The subject librarians in Library and Information Services can provide assistance in locating documentation that can strengthen the nomination at siue.edu/lovejoylibrary/research_tools/librarians.shtml. 

For more information, contact Juliet Kerico Gray at jkerico@siue.edu or at 650-3129

Over the past two academic years, we’ve received positive feedback on the temporary 24/7 schedule during the last two weeks of the semester. By extending our hours throughout the 2018 fall semester, Library and Information Services (LIS) continues to respond to the needs of an evolving campus culture.

Under this new schedule, effective as of  Sunday, Oct. 7, Lovejoy Library will be open during the following hours:

Sunday: 10 a.m.-1 a.m.
Monday: 7:30 a.m.-1 a.m.
Tuesday: 7:30 a.m.-1 a.m.
Wednesday: 7:30 a.m.-1 a.m.
Thursday: 7:30 a.m.-1 a.m.
Friday: 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday: 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

In addition to the change in building hours, the Information Desk will be open until 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and the former Instruction Room A has been designated as a Quiet Study Space for those who wish to work independently while remaining on the first floor.

We hope that these additional hours will continue to make Lovejoy Library a welcoming late-night space for SIUE students to work independently or collaboratively.

The University Police will continue to patrol the library as part of their usual schedule. Likewise, Facilities Management will maintain the building, as usual.

For more information, contact LIS administration at 650-2712.

Juliet Kerico Gray
Health Sciences Librarian, Assistant Professor
Interim Director of Research Commons and Interim Assistant Dean

11 a.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 9
Morris University Center, Goshen Lounge and
School of Engineering Atrium

Come to the table in Goshen Lounge or the School of Engineering's atrium and complete a free screening tool about mental health with the School of Nursing.

Counseling Center staff members will be on hand to help interpret the results.

For more information, contact Lisa Thompson-Gibson at lithomp@siue.edu or 650-2842.

Jeffrey Skoblow, emeritus professor of English, and Eric Ruckh, associate professor in the Department of Historical Studies, will read Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” on one of the small knolls:

12:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 10
On the Quad

We will be joined by itinerant artists and musicians.

Ginsberg wrote “Howl” in Berkeley, California in 1954-1955 and read it for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco on October 7, 1955.

Ginsberg’s reading of “Howl” is a signal moment in the history of American culture and letters. With this poem, Ginsberg aligns spirit and body, breadth and idea—“that’s the measure, one physical-mental aspiration contained in the elastic of a breadth”—to assault the madness of American culture and society (then and now) and redeem the holiness of the body and its manifold, myriad pleasures.

For more than 15 years, we have been reading and re-reading Ginsberg’s “Howl.” Why? To paraphrase Emerson, to inspire, to be inspired, to remind ourselves and others of the divinity of the “poet chanting.” 

We hope many of you will join us.

For more information, contact Ruckh at eruckh@siue.edu.

The SIUE Department of Theater and Dance begins its 2018-19 fall season with D.W. Gregory’s "Radium Girls."

7:30 p.m.
Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 10-13
2 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 14
Dunham Hall

General admission is $15 for adults (18 and older); $12 for seniors (65 and up); $12 for non-SIUE students with a valid school I.D.; and $12 for SIUE faculty and staff. SIUE students are free with a valid SIUE I.D. 

Tickets are now available. To purchase, visit the Theater and Dance Department box office located inside Katherine Dunham Hall in room 1042b or charge by calling 618-650-2774 or toll free at 1-888-328-5168, extension 2774.  Sorry no reservations are held without payment. 

For more information, please call the above phone numbers or send a message to theater-tickets@siue.edu. For directions and parking, please visit the SIUE website at siue.edu\maps.

In 1926 radium was a miracle cure, and luminous watches were the latest rage until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story and written with warmth and humor, "Radium Girls" is a fast-moving, highly theatrical ensemble piece that offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth and the commercialization of science.

The Kimmel Student Involvement Center, in partnership with the Edwardsville Rotary, is pleased to accept nominations for the SIUE Student Leader of the Month.

Individuals selected for this award will be recognized at an upcoming Rotary meeting and at the annual Kimmel Leadership Awards Ceremony in April.

SIUE students can be nominated by students, faculty or staff. No self-nominations will be considered. Applications are accepted on an on-going basis, and should be received by the 16th of the month to be considered for that month's award. Any nominees not selected for one month, will be considered for the following months. Awards will be given for September through April each academic year.

Candidates will be selected based on the following criteria:

· High academic standards
· Campus involvement and activities
· Service to others on and off campus
· Leadership within their academic area or within an organization
· Demonstrated ability to promote spirit and pride at SIUE

To submit an application, visit SIUE Rotary Student Leader of the Month on Get Involved.

For more information, please contact the Kimmel Student Involvement Center at 618-650-2686.

Tuesday, Oct. 16
8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Across SIUE campuses

Join us for SIUE Diversity Day 2018, a celebration of our institution’s past, present and future as it relates to advances in cultural-responsiveness and inclusion. This goal is encapsulated in the day’s theme, “From Awareness to Action, SIUE Shaping a Changing World.” 

Visit the Diversity Day schedule for a full list of events.

Designed with community engagement and participation across SIUE’s campuses in East St. Louis, Alton and Edwardsville in mind, this multi-event day will showcase the multitude of ways in which membership in the global community is core to our values and mission.

This educational day will include dance, art, presentations, posters and even cuisine representing the ethnic roots of our students. We will have speakers from the Metro East region.

Tuesday, Oct. 16
3:30-5:30 p.m.
Goshen Market on Wheels
On the Quad 

Cultural Literacy is on-the-Move as part of an SIUE Community Service Project for the University's Diversity Day 2018.

Available will be a Mobile Little Free Library that introduces a culturally diverse world, celebrates differences, promotes social justice and reinforces a love of reading.

Young Goshen Market goers will have the opportunity to check out books and exchange them for others each time they visit the market.

The SIUE Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion is sponsoring the free library to ride aboard the Goshen Market Foundation's traveling market truck.

Each Friday, you can catch the Mobile Little Free Library at the Cougar Village housing complex in the Beet Box truck!

For more information, contact Megan Hanson at mphanson@littlefreelibrary.org.