November 14, 2011

Media Advisory -- Internship Announcement

Reporters, photographers and camera crews are welcome to attend an announcement that involves research into Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s early history of diversity and the establishment of an endowed internship through the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute.

The news conference will be at 1 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 16, in the lobby of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, 1231 Lincoln Drive, in the Forestry Building.

Among those attending will be Chancellor Rita Cheng, David Yepsen, Institute director, Pamela A. Smoot, a clinical assistant professor in Africana Studies at SIU Carbondale, and Matt Baughman, Institute associate director.

For more information contact Baughman at 618/453-4009 or 618/201-0082.