Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Student Organization Fair is introducing hundreds of students to the wide array of activities on campus. The event is being held Monday and Tuesday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Goshen Lounge of the Morris University Center on campus.

Representatives from more than 70 student organizations are sharing, or in the case of the J...

An initiative at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is fostering academic achievement as faculty librarians in Library and Information Services (LIS) connect with freshmen students to provide information resources and personal assistance.

The goal of the Personal Librarians program is to aid in the retention of students by starting the collegiate career of freshmen...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy (SOP) researchers have been awarded a $398,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to assess the effects of various dietary fats on the brain vasculature in association with inflammation. 

The receipt of the R21 grant marks the second concurrent grant presented by the NIH to Ken Witt, PhD, as...

Rebecca Krasny’s love of science started at a young age, fueled in part by field trips she took to the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. Now a sophomore biological sciences major, specializing in medical science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Rebecca returned to the space exploration landmark this summer as a Noyce intern working with the Adler Teen Progra...

It’s lunchtime and Sarah Goldammer is in a reclined position being prepped to give a much needed and crucial donation. Goldammer, educational training specialist at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Professional Development Center, was one of more than 80 people who gave blood on Wednesday. 

“I felt it was an import...

Hundreds of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville students poured into the Morris University Center’s Goshen Lounge Wednesday to take advantage of the giveaways, prize drawings, entertainment and fun. 

The annual Merchants Fair was part of SIUE’s Welcome Week, which celebrates the return of students to campus for the fall semes...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Welcome Week celebrations continued Wednesday as hundreds of students, faculty and staff were treated to free ice cream and SIUE t-shirts.

SIUE Interim Chancellor Stephen Hansen, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Jeffrey Waple and Edwardsville Mayor Hal Patton handed out 700 Dairy Queen mini blizzards during the annual ice cream...

For the second-consecutive year, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is in Washington Monthly’s Top 40 for master’s universities in the nation. SIUE maintained its position as first among all master’s institutions in Illinois on the national magazine’s list. This is the sixth-consecutive year that SIUE has been listed.

Unlike conventional col...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is adding a free, new app to its array of parking services – Whoosh! 

Effectively immediately, those needing to pay for parking in SIUE Lots B (Morris University Center lot) and C (behind Rendleman Hall) will have an additional payment option. Students, faculty and staff will be able to use their cell phones, table...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville College of Arts and Sciences Dean Gregory Budzban contends liberal arts are what provide the educational foundation that helps students deal with today’s complex problems.

As leader of the College and its diverse academic offerings, Budzban plans to further strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration, fundraising, program dev...

Depression is no longer the number one mental health concern among college students, according to a New York Times report. Now anxiety tops the list.

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Director of Counseling Services Jamie Linsin says it is estimated that only one-third of those suffering from anxiety disorders receive treatment. He emphasizes that even the most ...

The decision on whether or not to purchase a franchise can be complex.

The Metro East Small Business Development Center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville equipped Donna and Phil Green, long-time business owners of a local remodeling and remediation business, with the information and contacts they needed to make that complex decision.

For nearly a decade, Phil ...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville students have a new safety app at their fingertips. SIUE is one of the first universities in the Midwest to offer its students the free Rave Guardian personal safety app.

The University’s use of the new technology was featured Monday in a KSDK news report.

Representatives from various departments within Southern Illinois University Edwardsville are set up in Morris University Center (MUC) to provide information to students. 

Approximately 33 units have booths in the MUC as part of the University Department Resource Fair, according to Michelle Welter, associate director of the Kimmel Student Invo...

Hundreds of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville freshmen students loaded onto buses Saturday, amidst torrential rains to participate in The SIUE Experience. 

The goal of the SIUE Experience was to promote citizenship, one of the University’s values. Approximately 850 students braced the stormy conditions to take part. 

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Children and youth learning and playing classical music through the Japanese-based Suzuki Method has been part of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville for 50 years.

The public is encouraged to attend the Suzuki String Program’s anniversary open house on Wednesday, Aug. 26 at 7 p.m. at Dunham Hall on the SIUE campus where Suzuki teachers will share details on ...

Interest in the Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine (SIU SDM) new International Advanced Placement Program (IAPP) indicates it will be popular. Through spring and early summer, the new program accepted more than 330 applications for the six seats available during its inaugural year.

The IAPP is designed to enable qualified dentists, who have graduated f...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s class of 2019 gathered at the Vadalabene Center on campus Friday to meet their fellow classmates, learn what it means to be a student at SIUE and build their Cougar spirit.

The freshmen class, comprised of approximately 2,100 students, 275 of whom are Missourians, gathered around the iconic cougar statue on the quad for th...

Members of the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Cougar Volleyball Team donned homemade capes and took to two wheels Aug. 18 to utilize the University’s Bicycle Share Program. The cycling event built camaraderie and brought out their “inner hero.” 

“We had great fun on our Cougar Volleyball Pride Bike Ride,&#822...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville students will find they now have an easier way to search and apply online for scholarships this fall. The SIUE Scholarship Task Force has launched siue.academicworks.com, where students can view all scholarships, sort by keyword, filter by area of interest, fill out an application and accept their scholarship awards.

This online s...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is now home to approximately 2,100 freshmen, of which 1,500 of the first-year students unpacked their vehicles and moved into the Bluff, Prairie and Woodland residence halls on campus Thursday.

Hundreds of students, faculty and staff volunteered to help the newest Cougars get settled and feel welcome ahead of the start of the 2015...

Dr. Joseph Page, an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Design at SIUE, will have his artwork displayed at The Pearl Concord Gallery at The Ohio State University. 

Flow Chart will be on display from Aug. 25-Sept. 17.  Read more about Page’s exhibition in the Richland Source.

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is consistently rated as one of the safest campuses in the nation. As the safety of its students, staff, faculty and guests is its top priority, SIUE and Parking Services are introducing SIUE-Safe – the free Rave Guardian personal safety app, as an additional component for individual security.

“SIUE-Safe is the perfect...

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The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering solar car team achieved a new personal best at the 2015 Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) in Austin, Texas. 

The School’s Black Nova completed 66 laps and covered more than 226 miles, five times more than last year’s total. SIUE was one of 15 universities from the U.S...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Kyong Yoon, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, is presenting his research on lice today at the National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society.

Yoon will share his pioneering analysis that high levels of gene mutations in the pests are linked to a resistance to common treatm...

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Alumni Association will present Ashley Seering ’14 and Cory Byers, instructor in the Mass Communications Department of the SIUE College of Arts and Sciences, at its Third Thursday Networking Hour at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, at Birger Hall.

Seering and Byers will share their experiences in producing “The Heroin ...

Five award-winning films will be shown Oct. 1-28 as part of the Latin American Film Festival at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. In Spanish with English subtitles, the films will interest a wide audience.  

The public is invited to attend the following films:

• Aqui y Alla (Here and There) will open the Festival at 5 p. m. Thursday, Oct. 1 in the Morr...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Jeffrey Waple, PhD, has exciting plans to enhance the student experience at SIUE.

Waple’s vision for SIUE includes enhancing services, facilities and activities to enrich the student experience. He also strives to build affinity to the institution by establishing programs of regional and n...

Dr. Erin Behnen is looking forward to expanding and enhancing experiential learning at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, in addition to helping programs use data for improvement. 

Behnen was promoted last month to the position of assistant provost for academic innovation and effectiveness in the Office of the Provost and Vice Chancell...

Stephen Hansen, PhD, will serve as interim chancellor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville effective Saturday, Aug. 15. In a special session today at B. Barnard Birger Hall on the Edwardsville campus, the SIU Board of Trustees approved Hansen for a one-year appointment, during which a search for a new chancellor will be conducted.

Hansen just concluded serving as ...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Engineering and Technology (ENGTEC) partnered with the Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC) to host the inaugural Manufacturing Matchmaking event for the Metro East Wednesday on the SIUE campus. Approximately 40 manufacturing professionals and suppliers participated in speed-networking meetings and toured the SIUE School...

Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine alum Mark Hobbie DMD’15 is one of 19 dental school graduates nationwide to receive the 2015 Brian D. Stone Award. The award presented by the Dental Lifeline Network recognizes new dentists for their volunteerism and demonstrated efforts in helping people with special needs.

The American Dental Association announ...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumnus Scott Drachnik BS’85 has been appointed director of the St. Charles County Department of Workforce Development. Drachnik earned a bachelor's in mass communications/television-radio from the College of Arts and Sciences.

Drachnik’s leadership duties are detailed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's St. Charles Count...

The National Association of College Auxiliary Services (NACAS) has presented Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Jim McDermott with its inaugural Dr. Wright L. Lassiter, Jr. Legacy Award. McDermott has worked at the University for more than 20 years and is the business manager of the Morris University Center (MUC).

NACAS is a professional association for aux...

In the span of one week, more than 1,000 underserved and underprivileged kids and adults in Jamaica received much-needed dental care and medical consultation from future dental and pharmacy professionals. Students from the Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine (SDM) and the SIUE School of Pharmacy (SOP) provided the care during the 16^th annual Jamaica Dent...

The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Business is now the only accredited business school in the Metro East to offer both graduate and undergraduate degrees in Computer Management Information Systems (CMIS) as STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) programs.

The STEM designation recognizes the importance of degrees that help students develop ex...

Nine Southern Illinois University Edwardsville student-athletes have received Medals of Honor from the Ohio Valley Conference for academic excellence.

The student-athletes were honored after achieving a perfect 4.0 GPA during the 2014-15 academic year.

SIUE’s Medal of Honor winners include:

• Jack Desse, of Edwardsville, men’s tennis
• Lindsey Fencel, of Beth...

Former Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Center (ESLC) student Aza Walker welcomes complexity in life. In fact, the chemical engineering student thrives on it. 

“I’ve always wanted to learn about the more complicated things in life,” said Walker, a graduate of the ESLC Upward Bound EC (East St. Louis, C...

The Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) has recognized the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville men’s golf team as an All-Academic Team for the fifth consecutive year.

SIUE is one of three Ohio Valley Conference honorees, along with Belmont and Morehead State. Awards were presented to 90 NCAA Division I programs.

“Our student-athletes have put in ...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering (SOE) Dean Hasan Sevim has joined with more than 100 deans nationwide committing to enhance diversity and inclusion in engineering education. Sevim made the pledge on behalf of the SIUE SOE by signing a Diversity Initiative Letter spearheaded by the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).

The ASEE...

The Illinois Education Research Council (IERC) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has been selected to take a more active role in addressing the state’s preschool to workforce needs on the Illinois P-20 Council. 

Dr. Janet Holt, IERC executive director, was named as coordinator of the Illinois P-20 Council, a statewide initiati...

Southern Illinois University System President Randy Dunn spoke with host Don Marsh on St. Louis Public Radio's “St. Louis on the Air” Monday. Dunn reflected on his first year as system president and discussed challenges faced by institutions of higher learning.

The full interview is available on stlpublicradio.org.

Art students at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville are moving beyond the pottery wheel; and instead, producing ceramic objects with the click of a button. For the first time, the SIUE Department of Art and Design is incorporating the pioneering technology of 3D printing in a summer ceramics course.

“We’re training students to draw parallels between the ...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville researchers are engaging East St. Louis middle school students in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-related research and activities through an $846,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Sixth through ninth grade students are conducting research and creating a website that highlights the city with materials...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has teamed with RideFinders to offer a new incentive to carpool to campus. Students and staff can now buy parking permits through the Cougar Carpool program that guarantee premium parking spots for half the cost of a typical permit.

The Belleville News-Democrat detailed the new program in an article posted on Sunday.