SIU Carbondale student Ashlynn Shea tends to a tank at the university’s coral farm. It is one example of many of the research that occurs on campus. (Photo by Russell Bailey)
Southern Illinois University Carbondale is part of an extraordinary group. It is one of only 21 institutions in the country to be included on the Carnegie Classification of Institutions for Higher Education’s lists for Research 1 and Opportunity Colleges and Universities.
Unsure of what she specifically wanted to study when she came to Southern Illinois University Carbondale in August 2023, Carly Gist took very little time in finding her niche.
For Robert Hahn, professor of philosophy, emeritus, in the College of Liberal Arts, his innovative and creative 42-year career at Southern Illinois University Carbondale has been a “teacher’s dream come true.”
The spring 2025 graduates of Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s dental hygiene program are uniquely poised for career success and to make a difference in their communities, thanks to the education and training they received.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s College of Health and Human Sciences (CHHS) provides a wide variety of behavioral, mental health, rehabilitative, restorative and other services to the public through four special programs. Plans are now underway to bring them all together into one collaborative, centralized place, tentatively called the Community Care and Education Center (CCEC).
A workshop on the transformations AI is bringing to the world and the societal implications takes place this week at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
A student civil engineering team from Southern Illinois University Carbondale won first place at a recent competition and will head for the finals in June.
The talents of Illinois high school juniors and seniors were evident at the second Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Art and Design statewide online art competition.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale researcher Senetta Bancroft’s study into whether a differently structured chemistry class will benefit all students was inspired by a spring 2017 semester that left her disillusioned.
As the iconic Varsity Theater prepares to celebrate its 85th birthday next month, a Southern Illinois University Carbondale senior hospitality marketing management class presented proposed marketing plans for the Varsity Center’s second life as an arts and entertainment venue.
Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, will likely carry on the mission of his predecessor and serve as an inspiration to young people to “make a positive difference,” says Father Joseph A. Brown, a professor and coordinator of Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Africana studies program and director of the School of Africana and Multicultural Studies.
Powerful operas by Italian master composer Gaetano Donizetti, along with celebrating the first two of Austrian composer Joseph Haydn’s “London Symphonies,” are among the highlights for the 21st Southern Illinois Music Festival (SIFest), May 23-June 8.
In the classroom, within the mental health profession and in the greater community, Mary Louise Cashel, associate professor in the School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences, has been making a difference through her dedication, leadership, vision and transformative contributions for several decades, her colleagues say. Cashel’s efforts have not gone unnoticed as she has been selected as the 2025 winner of SIU’s Women of Distinction Award, one of eight Excellence Awards presented April 23.
