Accomplishments - November, 2025
About 100 students participated in the Nov. 12 Interprofessional Education Session sponsored by the School of Human Sciences and the School of Medicine to teach them to work collaboratively across various disciplines. Students from the Lincoln Scholars, physician assistant, nursing and social work programs focused on key concepts, addressed a problem-based case study, participated in a collaborative discussion led by faculty from all of those disciplines and learned about occupational history. A panel of community-based service providers and experts was also featured at the School of Medicine location.
“Ferguson 10 Years Later,” a series by SIU Carbondale’s Gateway Journalism Review (GJR) that looked at the state of racial justice — particularly in Missouri and Illinois — won “Best Collaborative College/University & Professional Website” honors in Editor and Publisher’s 2025 EPPY Awards, which celebrates the best in digital journalism. The 80-page quarterly magazine, which was also second for “Best News Story on a College/University Website,” concluded that reforms sought after Michael Brown’s 2014 death and those in other officer-involved shootings in the nation have been limited.
April Imhoff, Center for Learning Support Services, recently earned NCTA Proctor Certification from the National College Testing Association. The renewable three-year certification recognizes knowledge of test administration, exam security and professional development.
Omid Kamran Disfani, associate professor, School of Management and Marketing, recently provided information on WalletHub.com on store credit cards.
Segun Ojewuyi, professor of directing, and Jaemin Park, assistant professor of lighting and sound design, both in the School of Theater and Dance, are participating Thursday, Nov. 13, in masterclass discussions during the weeklong Lagos International Theatre Festival, which begins today, Nov. 10, in Nigeria. Ojewuyi and Park will each talk for about one hour in separate sessions related to their areas of their expertise and then serve as director and designer, respectively, for the Nov. 15-16 production of “Home” by American playwright Samm-Art Williams.
Julia Rendleman, assistant professor, Charlotte Thompson Suhler School of Journalism and Advertising, will present a public discussion “American Water” at the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism on Nov. 12. A Pulitzer Center grantee, Rendleman will discuss five of her water-related reporting projects, along with visiting a science writing class and meeting with photojournalism students.
The SIU School of Medicine and Southern Illinois Healthcare collaborated on Oct. 28 to sponsor a suture workshop for 82 second-year physician assistant, first-year medical and Lincoln Scholar students. Dr. Kelli Webb, a local plastic surgeon and SIU School of Medicine graduate, arranged for 25 local physicians and physician assistants to instruct the students on laceration and incision repair. SIH hosted the event and provided each student with a practice suture kit, complete with instruments.
A $1,000 grant from the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board to the SIU Board of Trustees will allow the digitization of selected films in Morris Library’s Special Collections Research Center and make them available on YouTube. The grants support projects that make historically significant records – including film collections – more accessible to the public through online platforms.
