SIU Today - May 04, 2020

Students remain priority for Scholar Excellence Award winner Goodson

Science can be viewed as a high-powered rocket, taking humans to vistas never imagined during the relatively short time it has been around.


51 faculty members earn promotion, tenure

The SIU Board of Trustees on April 30 approved promotions in academic rank and tenure for 51 faculty members effective with the 2020-2021 academic year in August or the 2021 fiscal year beginning in July.


Creating in the kitchen: SIU students use pandemic to create online cooking videos

Once their food production classroom was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic this spring, students shifted gears to answer questions about cooking for yourself or family while sheltering at home.


Benefit Choice Employee Virtual Fairs are set

In late April, the Illinois Department of Central Management Services (CMS) mailed the FY21 Benefit Choice booklet to employees.  Due to the pandemic and shelter-in-place order, planned in-person fairs were canceled.


Survey available for spring semester graduates

Faculty and staff are being asked by the Career Development Center to remind students of a survey for undergraduate and graduate students who are planning to graduate this month.

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