Friday, Feb. 22, 2019

Noon-1:30 p.m.
Today
Morris University Center,
Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion (CSDI), located on the second floor
Feel free to bring your lunch.

Please note these upcoming Inclusive Conversations: Fridays, March 8 and 29, and April 12 and 26.

Inclusive Conversations meetings are designed to support critical conversations and understanding of campus climate issues for students, faculty and staff; social justice; and the collective responsibility to build a sustainable campus environment; one which embodies citizenship, excellence, inclusion, integrity and wisdom.

If you have questions, please contact Dr. Courtney Boddie, interim CSDI director, at cboddie@siue.edu.

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics would like to invite the University community to a research presentation by:

Dr. Kenneth Czuprynski, candidate for assistant professor
3-4 p.m.
Today
Science East, room 2204

The Campus Kitchen at SIUE is competing with more than 20 Campus Kitchens across the country to see which campus can “raise the most dough” in the Campus Kitchens Project “Raise the Dough” fundraiser.

The fundraiser runs through today.  

The Campus Kitchen at SIUE relies solely on monetary and in-kind donations to continue fighting hunger and food insecurity in the St. Louis Metro area. We need YOU to help us! 

Support the Campus Kitchen at SIUE here. 

Please contact Sarah Laux at slaux@siue.edu for more information.

The schedule for Saturday Studio Art runs from Feb. 23-April 27. All sessions will be held in the second floor of the Art and Design West building on SIUE's campus.

There will be no class during SIUE's Spring Break on March 16. 

Studio instruction is once agian 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 education professionals and are art education majors in the SIUE Department of Art and Design.

Please note the below classes:

Beginning Children's Class: grades K-1
9:30-11:30 a.m.
Art & Design West 2139
Fee: $85, Limit: 15 students

Primary Children's Class: grades 2-4
9:30-11:30 a.m.
Art and Design West 2144
Fee: $85, Limit: 18 students

Intermediate Art Class: grades 5-8
9:30-11:30 a.m.
Art and Design West 2140
Fee: $85, Limit: 15 students 

Advanced Art Class: grades 9-12
9:30-11:30 a.m.
Art and Design West 2206
Fee $85, Limit: 18 students

For registration and more information, contact:
Dr. Sangsook Park at 618-650-5825 or spark@siue.edu 
Eva Sedjo at 618-650-2824  or esedjo@siue.edu 

Visit the Saturday Studio website and flyer.

SIUE is proud to welcome noted actor and activist Mike Farrell for his upcoming performance of Dr. Keeling’s Curve at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 1 in the Dunham Hall Theater.

On this week’s episode of Segue, SIUE’s radio show that discusses the lives and work of the people on campus and beyond, host Greg Budzban, PhD, College of Arts and Science dean, interviews the star about his upcoming performance. This Segue episode airs at 9 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 24 on WSIE 88.7 FM The Sound andsiue.edu/wsie.

Sponsored by the SIUE Graduate School and the Madison County Regional Office of Education, the M*A*S*H and Providence actor will perform in the one-man show as Dr. Charles David Keeling, the scientist whose research on carbon dioxide (CO2) gave the world its first early warnings of global warming.

Dr. John Michael Pezzuto is the second of four finalists for the position of Dean of the School of Pharmacy.

The open forum will be held:
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 25
200 University Park, Room 1102 

The Zoom Link:
Open Forum / Q&A
https://siue.zoom.us/j/438245139
+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
Meeting ID: 438 245 139

Pezzuto earned a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He served as dean of the College of Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Sciences at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana from 2002-2006. 

Pezzuto was the founding dean of the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawaii at Hilo (2009-2015). Hecurrently serves as professor and dean at Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Long Island University in Brooklyn, N.Y.

All graduating senior dental studentsmust take a patient-based clinical licensing examination prior to being eligible to apply for a license to practice dentistry. 

We need your help in advance of this licensing exam to complete this requirement. You can help by participating in in a FREE dental screening.

FREE screenings will be offered from 5-7 p.m. at the School of Dental Medicine on the Alton campus:
Monday, Feb. 25

A FREE dental screening, including select x-rays, will be offered to patients willing to participate and who are 18 years and older.

There will be NO CHARGE for the treatment you will receive during the Board Exam.

No appointment is necessary for the FREE screenings offered. Please bring a photo ID. Free parking is available in the patient parking area (off of Annex Street).

SIU SDM Main Dental Clinic is located at 1700 Annex Street (free patient parking off of Annex Street) in Alton.

For more information, contact the clinic at (618) 474-7000.

Due to the increase of yoga participation numbers, an extra yoga class has been added to the Group Fitnss schedule:

6:45 a.m.
Tuesday/Thursday
Beginning Tuesday, Feb. 26
Student Fitness Center 

As a reminder, you must be a Student Fitness Center member to participate in group fitness classes.Yoga classes are free for students and $15 per semester for others.

For more information, contact Kayce Beatty at kbeatty@siue.edu or ext. 5395.

The Campus Activities Board, Black Heritage Month Committee presents:

"Our Powerful Purpose," by Stefan Bradley, PhD, associate professor and chair of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University and former SIUE professor
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 26
Morris University Center, Meridian Ballroom
Light refreshments immediately following

Bradley is the author of Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League.

“I’ll be speaking primarily about the movements of black youth in the past and present, as they have influenced institutional policy and culture in higher education, as well as the nation," said Bradley. "Based on my studies, black youth have time and again saved American democracy.”

SIUE’s iCARE Program for mental health wellness and suicide prevention is a finalist for the 2019 Arcus Awards with the St. Louis Chamber. 

This award is presented to organizations that demonstrate exceptional commitment to leading the St. Louis Region’s authentic economic strengths and championing a better tomorrow for the region. 

The Arcus Awards also give out People’s Choice Awards to the finalist that receives the most votes.   

Please consider going to their website and voting for us at arcusawards.com. Scroll down to the blue “vote now” box. 

You can vote as many times as you like before midnight Wednesday, Feb. 27. 

Please show SIUE's iCARE team how much we care about what they are doing.