First Saluki Center — Lanel Love, right, will oversee SIU Carbondale's new First Saluki Center for first-generation students. Here she is shown in her former role as assistant director of the Student Multicultural Resource Center helping Laura King, a May health, nutrition and dietetics graduate. (Photo by Russell Bailey)
A new First Saluki Center at SIU is designed to make the college transition even easier for first-generation students. The center, launched by a seed grant from the SIU Foundation, is essentially a one-stop shop enabling the university’s first-generation students to easily access the help, resources, mentorship and peer support they need to succeed.
In a new SIU program, students specialize in how to be natural resource lands managers, instead of focusing on the more general understanding of wildlife ecology without direction toward a specific position.
Corné Prozesky’s affiliation with Recreational Sports and Services at Southern Illinois University goes back many years and now, he has been chosen as its director.
Beginning July 22, in coordination with RIDES Mass Transit, which operates Saluki Express, a number of changes are taking place on the Chestnut Route. The changes include the addition of some mid-day runs.
One neighborhood in the St. Louis County is facing more than its fair share of crime. Thanks to a new grant, researchers from Southern Illinois University Carbondale are working with local law enforcement to transform the community.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Friends of Morris Library annual fundraiser will feature a performance by Fiddle Rick and the Bourbon Boys and a catered meal. The event is slated for 5:30-9:30 p.m. on Sept. 21 in the Southern Illinois University Carbondale Student Center Ballrooms.
A group from Northeast Normal University in China arrived Saturday for a two-week Saluki Summer Experience at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Local artists have a unique opportunity to display their work, with Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s University Museum accepting submissions for new exhibits.
Thirteen Southern Illinois University Carbondale undergraduate students who are participating in a program that prepares them for careers in research will present their work at the 16th annual McNair Summer Research Symposium on July 19.
McLeod Summer Playhouse opens its final professional production of 2019 this weekend with a very special 60th anniversary production of Gypsy: A Musical Fable, the play widely acclaimed as “America’s Greatest Book Musical.”
For the second year in a row, Tyne Morgan and a group of agriculture analysts are coming back to Southern Illinois University Carbondale for a live taping of the “U.S. Farm Report” on July 16.
