Research

Instead of sitting at home looking for ways to stay busy, a group of high school students from the St. Louis and Metro East areas is engaging in a free, learning opportunity that is building knowledge and offering hands-on research experience during Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Environmental Science Summer Research Academy being held June 17-21 on campus.

“I’ve been passionate about science since fifth grade,” explained Mukund Viswanadha, a senior at Parkw...

A Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy (SOP) team of three second-year students are celebrating their proud accomplishment of finishing as a finalist in the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Clinical Research Challenge (CRC). The team offered strong showings through three rounds of competition to land among the final eight teams nationally, and top 10 percent, of the 82 participating schools.

The ACCP CRC is a unique competition that invites teams of three stu...

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Greenhouse is a beautiful educational resource that continuously supports the University’s value of excellence and its emphasis on high-quality learning within and beyond the classroom.

Positioned behind the Science West building, the SIUE Greenhouse is filled with plants being groomed for use as a supplement to core curriculum and for research activities.

“The main role of the SIUE Greenhouse is to support education,” said Jon ...

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Research, Education and Outreach has announced its FY20 Faculty Research Fellows.

The competitive fellowship is granted to outstanding faculty with proposals aimed at innovating ways to engage students in STEM and improve undergraduate STEM learning. The FY20 fellows are Nima Lotfi, PhD, and Kathleen Vongsathorn, PhD.

Lotfi is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering&#821...

It’s both the challenges and rewards that go along with conducting research that fuel Southern Illinois University Edwardsville senior biological sciences major Colleen Wagner’s drive and passion for biology and the medical sciences.

Wagner has proven her technical abilities and shown incredible potential as an undergraduate researcher in Susanne DiSalvo’s research lab. Now, she’s earned a highly competitive American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Undergraduate Research ...

Research is being conducted everywhere we look, with curiosity and the pursuit of new knowledge offering an endless array of opportunities to generate important information and expand horizons.

One such example is the continuous monitoring of salt concentration in local water bodies in order to study effect on ecosystem, a research project led by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering’s Rohan Benjankar, PhD.

In fall 2018, Benjankar and his research team comprisin...

More than 180 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville students from 30 degree programs showcased their Senior Assignments and Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) to the campus community during the annual Undergraduate Scholars Showcase held Thursday, April 25 in the Morris University Center (MUC).

The showcase highlighted the depth and variety of SIUE’s Senior Assignment, the culminating undergraduate experience, and URCA programs. Outstanding research and creative act...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville senior nursing major Paige Niepoetter aspires to become a life-changing cancer researcher. Given her drive and the applied experiences that have developed her passion for research, Niepoetter is positioned to achieve her dream of becoming a surgical oncologist specializing in breast cancer.

As a nursing student at SIUE, the Centralia native has capitalized upon the unique opportunity to work alongside faculty mentor Chaya Gopalan, PhD, to conduct resear...

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy (SOP) is celebrating the many achievements of current students and an aluma following the Illinois Council of Health-System Pharmacists (ICHP)/Missouri Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP) joint meeting held March 29-30 in Collinsville.

Earning recognition for their outstanding research were:

• Blake Cornwell, a fourth-year pharmacy student from Deer Creek, achieved the Best Platform Presentation Award for his capstone res...

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Graduate School is pleased to announce the spring 2019 Research Grants for Graduate Students (RGGS) award recipients.

The awards, valued at up to $500 each, will support the research and creative activities of 43 graduate students studying in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Schools of Engineering; Pharmacy; and Education, Health and Human Behavior.

A complete list of the spring 2019 RGGS recipients is available at siue.edu/graduate-students/a...

The Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine (SIU SDM) demonstrated its commitment to student and faculty research during its 2019 Research Day program held Tuesday, April 9. The event annually highlights the important role research plays in the daily practice and continual advancement of the dynamic profession of dentistry.

“Our profession is constantly improving treatment alternatives and introducing new and better options,” said SIU SDM Dean Bruce Rotter, DMD. &#822...

Four Southern Illinois University Edwardsville undergraduates have taken the same research theme and explored it in different mediums to produce original scholarly contributions. The students presented their research projects highlighting the representation of Latina/o in film on Saturday, April 6 at the Spanish Saint Louis Symposium hosted by Saint Louis University.

The students all conducted their research via SIUE’s unique Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) program, ...

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Morris University Center’s Goshen Lounge was overflowing with scholarly excitement as students from SIUE Graduate School’s myriad programs showcased their research at the Graduate School Research Symposium on Monday, April 1.

The annual event celebrates the research efforts and accomplishments of students, featuring research poster displays, creative exhibits and oral presentations.

“SIUE and its faculty are committed to embodying...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s unique Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) program is celebrating the extraordinary work of faculty mentors and students through four awards.

The URCA program encourages, supports and enables students to participate in research and creative activities at the undergraduate level. URCA Associates work one-on-one with faculty mentors to lead their own research projects or creative activities. URCA Assistants work on faculty-led sc...