SIU in the News - October, 2020
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Oct. 25, 2020
Chancellor Austin A. Lane discusses the university’s recruitment efforts in Southern Illinois. The Associated Press picked up the story.
FarmWeekNow.com – Oct. 23, 2020
Proud of their student’s discovery, SIU School of Agricultural Professors Ahmad Fakhoury and Jason Bond noted the beneficial fungi were “not known in the soy world,” although scientific literature in other fields published information about them.
WTTW-TV – Oct. 22, 2020
Todd Graham, SIU Carbondale Communication Studies, discuss the upcoming presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
KFVS-TV – Oct. 22, 2020
John Shaw, SIU’s Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, discusses the likelihood of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court.
WSIL-TV – Oct. 22, 2020
Sheila Simon, SIU School of Law, discusses Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s restrictions for Illinois bars and restaurants.
FarmWeekNow – Oct. 22, 2020
Southern Illinois needs its university to be an economic engine, and the new Carbondale chancellor sees agriculture as key. In fact, Chancellor Austin Lane holds ambitious goals for the university, its faculty and students.
KFVS-12 – Oct. 21, 2020
Southern Illinois University Professor Keith Gagnon has partnered with SIU Computer Science Professor Koushik Sinha to find out what’s really happening with COVID-19 inside the body. Along with student researchers, they are tracking COVID-19 genomes through population.
WBBM Newsradio – Oct. 19, 2020
John Shaw, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, discusses the 1969 bi-partisan proposal by then Gov. Richard Ogilvie for Illinois’ first state income tax.
FarmWeekNow – Oct. 19, 2020
Hasan Seyyedhasani, a new Southern Illinois University (SIU) assistant professor in precision agriculture, is researching agricultural applications for robotic technology.
Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle – Oct. 17, 2020
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Research by a Southern Illinois University instructor and her graduate student indicates the Mississippi River is more than three times older than previous records suggested.
Southern Illinoisan – Oct. 16, 2020
Austin Lane, who joined Southern Illinois University as chancellor of its Carbondale campus in July, said he noticed one glaringly obvious problem area right away: In recent years, SIU had lost sight of the importance of recruiting students from its backyard.
Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle – Oct. 17, 2020
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Research by a Southern Illinois University instructor and her graduate student indicates the Mississippi River is more than three times older than previous records suggested.
WSIL-TV – Oct. 14, 2020
Sudden Death Syndrome, or SDS, in soybeans is a disease caused by fusarium virguliforme. "It produces a toxin that can move from the roots to the plants, the leaves and then, and then fully show symptoms," said Mirian Pimentel, an SIU Plant Pathology Ph.D student.
KFVS-TV – Oct. 13, 2020
SIU Stem Education Research Professor Harvey Henson discusses the Great ShakeOut and earthquake readiness.
WSIU InFocus – Oct. 13, 2020
Chancellor Austin Lane discusses how the campus is handling COVID-19 and what the university is doing to boost enrollment.
WSIL-TV – Oct. 12, 2020
Steven Macias, associate dean and associate professor at the SIU School of Law, says the Supreme Court confirmation hearings could change the course of history.
KFVS-TV – Oct. 12, 2020
Southern Illinois University doctoral student, Mirian Pimentel, has a new tool to help combat sudden death syndrome, a fungus disease impacting the roots of soybeans causing leaves to turn yellow and die.
WSIL-TV – Oct. 8, 2020
Steven Macias, associate dean and associate professor at the School of Law at Southern Illinois University said that in general, when it comes to freedom of speech, political speech receives the highest level of protection under our First Amendment. Macias said there are a few categories that are not protected by the First Amendment, but he doesn't believe that applies to this situation.
CNN.com – Oct. 8, 2020
Todd Graham, Communication Studies and director of debate, offers insight and grades for the Oct. 7 vice presidential debate.
Chicago Tribune – Oct. 7, 2020
Tonight’s televised face-off between Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris “is the most important vice presidential debate we’ve ever had,” says Todd Graham, the director of debate at Southern Illinois University and an expert in political debates.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Oct. 6, 2020
Research by a Southern Illinois University instructor and her graduate student indicates the Mississippi River is more than three times older than previous records suggested.
FarmWeekNow.com – Oct. 5, 2020
Scott Ishman sees that connection and others as the new interim dean of Southern Illinois University (SIU) College of Agricultural, Life and Physical Sciences.
KFVS-12 – Oct. 5, 2020
Before Southern Illinois University students start hands-on training at Southern Illinois airport in Murphysboro, they will learn in a virtual world.
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