Research

What has been the highlight of your summer? For seven Southern Illinois University Edwardsville scholars it was a 3,500-mile trek across parts of the U.S. to chase storms and visit interesting natural features.

The scholars are part of the collaborative GEOPATHS program, funded by the National Science Foundation. The program engages undergraduates in geoscience-related research opportunities.  

“The GEOPATHs program as a whole has been one amazing, career-empowering experience ...

SIUE’s Julie Zimmermann, PhD, professor and chair of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Anthropology, shared her archeological expertise as a featured guest of the Madison County Historical Society’s Online Speaker Series.

Zimmermann’s presentation, “In Our Own Backyard: SIUE Investigations of the Gerhing Site,” was published Sunday, June 20.

 The Edwardsville Intelligencer recapped Zimmermann’s presentation in an article posted Thurs...

SIUE’s Riza Demirer, PhD, professor in the School of Business Department of Economics and Finance, and fellow researchers are making international headlines for their findings on green investment bonds. 

Learn more in this article, entitled “Looking to Bonds for Volatility Protection? Going Green May Be Golden,” posted on Yahoo.com on Friday, June 11. 

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville continues to excel in the digital humanities, gaining national funding for its innovative, collaborative programming. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced $24 million in grants for 225 humanities projects nationwide. SIUE’s project, CODES: Community-Oriented Digital Engagement Scholars, has received $100,000 in funding.

CODES is a three-year project that will implement a general education pathway that introduces underser...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Alicia Plemmons, PhD, has established herself among U.S. legislators, policy groups and community leaders as a go-to expert with research-backed insights related to the economic impacts of regulation, particularly in healthcare.

Plemmons, assistant professor of economics in the SIUE School of Business and undergraduate economics program director in the College of Arts and Sciences, has advised legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives and...

Susanne DiSalvo, PhD, assistant professor in the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biological Sciences, has received the highly competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award totaling $463,557.

The award supports her research entitled, “Population and evolutionary dynamics of bacteriophage-symbiont-host interactions: Development of a multi-layered model microbiome,” the findings of which will elucidate virus-host ...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Jason Stacy, PhD, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ (CAS) Department of History, has been named the 2021 Paul Simon Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award recipient. 

The highly competitive award is annually presented by the SIUE Graduate School to a faculty member who has a proven record of combining scholarship and teaching. The recognition demonstrates the belief that to be a good teacher, one must also be a good scholar. A...

Research aimed at preventing sexual harassment from occurring during undergraduate field-based courses, specifically in the field of archeology, continues to gain national and international attention.

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Carol Colaninno, PhD, research assistant professor in the SIUE Center for STEM Research, Education and Outreach, presented on Improving Equity, Access and Professionalism at Archaeological Field Schools through the Prevention and Reduction of Sexua...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville researchers are leading and supporting collaborative projects that aim to develop robotic technologies to support the state of Illinois’ specialty crop industry, and quantify perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), so that groundwater testing can be performed.

They are among eight research teams to have received seed funding, totaling $229,000 from the Illinois Innovation Network’s (IIN) Sustaining Illinois program. The program is designed to incre...

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Graduate School is pleased to announce the spring 2021 Research Grants for Graduate Students (RGGS) award recipients.

The awards, valued at up to $500 each, will support the research and creative activities of 28 graduate students studying in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Schools of Engineering; Pharmacy; and Education, Health and Human Behavior.

“Graduate students at SIUE engage in their profession through the creation and publicatio...

Each semester, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) program recognizes outstanding faculty mentors and student researchers through four awards.

The URCA program encourages, supports and enables undergraduate students of all disciplines to participate in research and creative activities under faculty mentorship. These experiences allow undergraduate students opportunities to engage in scholarship, interact with faculty, and fully...

Fascinating research projects and excellent creative endeavors will be featured during the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Graduate Student Research Symposium to be held virtually Tuesday, April 6.

Hosted by the SIUE Graduate School, the annual symposium is a much-anticipated event for graduate students to share their research and creative projects with the campus community. And, thanks to a positive outcome of the need to go virtual, broader community members can explore their presen...

Real-world applications are essential to college student development, specifically for those pursuing data sciences. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Center for Predictive Analytics’ (C-PAN) Data Science Internship (DSI) Program is providing students with the opportunity to gain applied experience in data analysis to prepare for their future careers while aiding the local region with affordable and novel data solutions.

C-PAN was founded in 2019 to support the growing nee...

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Graduate School has announced the winners of the 2019 Visualizing Research Impacts (VRI) competition, which encourages SIUE scholars to show the results and impacts of their research to the public through images.

The recipients are Rodrick Whetstone, professor of graphic design in the Department of Art and Design, and Laura Strand, professor and head of textile arts in the Department of Art and Design. Their works were selected from eight faculty an...