Research

The Rhesus Monkey (Macaca mulatta) colony at Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico is one of the world’s most useful primate resources in biomedical and anthropological research. Established in 1938, the colony provides a unique opportunity to study health history, and genetic and environmental effects on bone and tooth development, aging, and pathology.

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Luci Kohn, PhD, professor in the Department of Biological Sciences within the College of Arts a...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has been awarded $499,113 from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for a collaborative project involving the University of Illinois (U of I) and industry partners. The researchers aim to create a new modeling technique that will improve agricultural production systems and reduce postharvest loss by considering metabolic, environmental and genomic factors (MEG).

SIUE Center for Predictive A...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Susanne DiSalvo, PhD, has been honored with the Graduate School’s 2020-21 Vaughnie Lindsay New Investigator Award for her outstanding research contributions and exemplary dedication to educating student researchers.

DiSalvo is an assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ (CAS) Department of Biological Sciences. Her research focuses on the process of symbiosis, an interaction of two different organisms living together i...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Zhi-Qing (Z.Q.) Lin, PhD, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ (CAS) Departments of Biological Sciences and Environmental Sciences, has achieved the University’s highest academic rank of Distinguished Research Professor.

Lin is an environmental ecologist with special research interest in phytoremediation, a biotechnical process that utilizes plants for the cleanup of trace element contamination. His research lab at SIUE con...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Scott Umbaugh, PhD, professor and graduate program director in the School of Engineering’s (SOE) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has joined a prestigious group of tenured faculty members by achieving the University’s highest academic rank of Distinguished Research Professor.

Umbaugh is a prolific researcher known worldwide for the development and implementation of application software in medical imaging, sate...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $382,636 to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville for its collaborative GEOPATHS-EXTRA program. GEOPATHS will build pathways to careers in the geosciences through research experiences and internships that demonstrate the value of geosciences to society. Students will study local environmental problems and develop solutions that have the potential to contribute to global environmental challenges.

A team of SIUE researchers is leading the prog...

Prospective students are invited to learn more about graduate studies during Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Graduate Admissions’ Online Open House being held Tuesday, March 31.

The Graduate Admissions Online Open House will be hosted from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at siue.edu/graduate-open-house.

During the Online Open House, prospective students can chat with an admission’s representative about SIUE’s more than 100 master’s programs, post-baccalaureate certific...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s University Marketing and Communications Department received eight awards in the 35th annual Educational Advertising Awards announced in late February. Higher Education Marketing Report sponsors the awards.

The Educational Advertising Awards is the largest, oldest and most respected educational advertising awards competition in the country. This year, over 2,350 entries were received from more than 1,000 colleges, universities and secondary schoo...

Graduates of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s School of Pharmacy (SOP) class of 2019 have exceeded both state and national averages, boasting a first-attempt board pass rate of 95.83 percent on the North American Pharmacist Licensure Exam^® (NAPLEX). These results place SIUE in the Top 20 of the 135 pharmacy programs in the country, and first among all programs in Illinois and Missouri.  

The NAPLEX is a requisite component of the licensing process for pharmacists in t...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Andrew Greenwood, PhD, is among the first scholars in the world invited to access the Serge Hovey Archive, a collection of Scottish song arrangements within the G. Ross Roy Collection of Scottish Literature, one of the world’s foremost holdings of Scottish songs.

The University of South Carolina Libraries extended the formal invitation to Greenwood, an assistant professor of musicology and graduate program director in the College of Arts a...

Which mode of exercise most effectively reduces cardiac fat in women? How can different modes of exercise improve cardiac function? These are among the questions Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Maria Fernandez del Valle, PhD, is asking through her research aimed at optimizing women’s health.

Fernandez del Valle is an assistant professor of exercise physiology in the School of Education, Health and Human Behavior’s Department of Applied Health. She is a prime exam...

From performing reactions, evaporating solvents, looking at spectra, and taking melting points, undergraduate students in the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy (SOP) have the unique opportunity to help advance and discover new compounds with impacts on such diseases and disorders as Alzheimer’s and epilepsy.

With the direct oversight of such renowned teacher-scholars as the SOP’s Michael Crider, PhD, associate dean for research, and chair and professor i...

SIUE’s Danielle Lee, PhD, assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biological Sciences, shared her insight on dog domestication and what science says about dogs’ love in a NOVA documentary titled “Dog Tales.”

The documentary premiered Wednesday, Feb. 12 on PBS’s NOVA, the most-watched prime time science series on American television. View the full episode here.  

It takes bold leadership and sound, research-based insight to foresee what grand challenges may unfold in the future. In an attempt to get in front of and counteract those potential challenges, the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched its inaugural 2026 Idea Machine Contest: “a competition to help set the U.S. agenda for fundamental research in science and engineering.”

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Center for STEM Research, Education and Outreach entered its c...

A new research project funded by a $300,000 National Science Foundation award to SIUE will combat sexual harassment and create safer, more inclusive archaeological field schools.

The endeavor is led by principal investigator Carol Colannino, PhD, research assistant professor in the SIUE Center for STEM Research, Education and Outreach, in partnership with researchers from the Arkansas Archeological Survey and Mississippi State University.

KMOX reporter Megan Lynch highlighted the need for and ...