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Brent Pease

Brent Pease, an associate professor in the forestry program, will lead SIU’s new Roadside Ecology Center. The center is the result of a $40 million intergovernmental agreement with the Illinois Department of Transportation that aims to mitigate and minimize the impact of transportation projects on wildlife in Southern Illinois (Photo by Rusell Bailey).

SIU Carbondale, IDOT partner on $40M grant to establish Roadside Ecology Center

Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the Illinois Department of Transportation are partnering on a 10-year, $40 million intergovernmental agreement that aims to mitigate and minimize the impact of transportation projects on wildlife and ecosystems in Southern Illinois. The pact is the university’s largest research partnership ever.

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SIU Carbondale’s Friends of Morris Library fundraiser is Sept. 26

The annual Friends of Morris Library fall fundraising gala, which helps provide faculty, staff and students with essentials in support of the library’s educational and scholarly mission, is set for Sept. 26 in the library’s Hall of Presidents and Chancellors and first-floor rotunda.

Tim Atseff alongside one of his exhibits at the Sharp Museum at SIU Carbondale.

SIU’s Sharp Museum exhibition commemorates newspaper industry

Reading the newspaper — printed on real paper and delivered to the front door — was once part of the daily routine for many Americans. That was before the digital revolution. An exhibition at Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Sharp Museum commemorates and laments the heyday of print journalism.

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