SIU in the News - January, 2019
The Chicago Crusader – Jan. 31, 2019
SMASH, the signature STEM education program of the Kapor Center, announces SMASH Illinois, its first statewide initiative program partnership with Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech), Southern Illinois University (SIUC) Carbondale, and the Creating Pathways and Access for Student Success (CPASS) Foundation.
WSIU Radio -- Jan. 30, 2019
Chancellor John Dunn shared his vision for the university with faculty and students Jan. 30 during a Wednesday Campus Conversation in the Student Center.
Southern Illinoisan – Jan. 30, 2019
The chance to build a better future for SIU Carbondale brought John Dunn out of retirement.
Southern Illinoisan – Jan. 29, 2019
Meera Komarraju, SIU Carbondale Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and Linda Baker, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, discuss the “Smash Illinois” program that SIU Carbondale begins this summer for underrepresented high school students in the region.
WSIU Radio – Jan. 29, 2019
Justice Oagile Bethuel Key Dingake and SIU School of Law Professor Christopher W. Behan discussed the Jan. 29 Beatty Jurist-in-Residence lecture.
A new program at SIU aims to bring more opportunities to students in our region
Meera Komarraju, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs discusses the “Smash Illinois” program that SIU Carbondale will be participating in starting this summer.
WSIL-TV – Jan. 28, 2019
Southern Illinoisan Business Journal – Jan. 27, 2019
... sent the market into decline for all of 2018,” said Tim Marlo, clinical assistant professor in the Department of Finance at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Marlo, who specializes in investments ...
KFVS-TV – Jan. 25, 2019
The Southern Illinois University Carbondale Department of Public Safety (DPS) is seeking the input of the community.
Chicago Sun-Times – Jan. 24, 2019
… live either at the Illinois Institute of Technology or Southern Illinois University’s Carbondale campus. Students will gain access to computer science courses …
KFVS-TV – Jan. 24, 2019
SMASH Illinois will launch this summer at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech).
Southern Illinoisan – Jan. 24, 2019
… Big Muddy Film Festival of Southern Illinois University is a student-run international film…
SIU students give back for MLK Day
WSIL-TV – Jan. 21, 2019
On Monday, nearly two dozen Southern Illinois University students took part in the first Martin Luther King Junior Day of Service held by the Eurma C. Hayes Center.
Southern Illinoisan – Jan. 21, 2019
… was approached by SIU law students who were part of the Illinois Innocence Project. The officers, students and Illinois Innocence Project petitioned for clemency for …
Decatur Herald & Review – Jan. 18, 2019
“I find it pointless,” said Mocsary, an associate professor of law and director of faculty development at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. “It doesn’t seem to be much of a deterrence value.”
On this edition of WSIU InFocus, we visit with Astronomer Bob Baer of the SIU Carbondale Physics Department and learn about what exactly we will see, and the reasons for it.
WSIU Radio – Jan. 18, 2019
WSIU Radio – Jan. 16, 2019
A researcher at SIU-Carbondale is studying the impact of public scrutiny on police officers. Tammy Kochel conducted surveys with the St. Louis County Police Department …
WSIU Radio – Jan. 15, 2019
WSIU's Jennifer Fuller talks with Interim SIUC Chancellor John Dunn.
New Microorganism discovered by SIU student, professor
WSIL-TV – Jan. 15, 2019
An undergraduate student at Southern Illinois University, and her professor made a new discovery that may make history.
Southern Illinoisan – Jan. 15, 2019
… wrote a chapter about Grover Thompson. Valerie Laforte, a student at SIU School of Law involved in the SI Innocence Project, read that Echols was having a book signing …
KFVS-TV – Jan. 15, 2019
In 2011, SIU law students and the Downstate Illinois Innocence Project began investigating Grover Thompson’s case. In 2012, the group, along with police from Carbondale and Cape Girardeau …
WJPF Radio – Jan. 15, 2019
Paul Echols, Criminology and Criminal Justice, discusses his work that also involved SIU School of Law students and the Illinois Innocence Project work to exonerate a man sentenced to prison for attempted murder.
WSIU Radio – Jan. 14, 2019
In December 2018, Chris Benda, a botanist who teaches a plant identification course at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, hiked the entire length …
Southern Illinoisan – Jan. 13, 2019
… documenting the recovery. As an anthropologist at SIU Carbondale, Barrios is interested in crisis. Studying the way we respond to a natural disaster, he believes, can tell us …
KFVS-TV – Jan. 10, 2019
Students at SIUC’s Aviation Program will soon take to the skies in brand new Cessna 172s. Flight instructors with the program ...
WSIU InFocus – Jan. 10, 2019
… we visit with Chris Benda, a botanist who teaches a plant identification course at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. In December of 2018 Chris hiked the entire length …
WSIU InFocus – Jan. 9, 2019
Cindy Buys and Angela Upchurch, SIU School of Law, discuss the upcoming “Women In Leadership” workshop and dinner.
Southern Illinoisan – Jan. 9, 2019
In 1968, an SIU Carbondale physicist named Walter Henneberger published a paper suggesting that an electron could be freed from an atom and bound to it at the same time, with the help of super-intense lasers.
Southern Illinoisan – Jan. 8, 2019
Since she was hired last May to help turn around declining enrollment at SIU Carbondale, Jennifer DeHaemers has heard the same complaint over and over again, in Southern Illinois.
New York Times – Jan. 7, 2019
… bribery and structural incentives for judges and lawyers to move slowly, despite a constitutional right to a speedy trial, said Raymund Narag, an assistant professor at Southern Illinois University who studies Philippine jails.
Wall Street Journal – Jan. 4, 2019
… FCPA penalties, according to figures compiled by Mike Koehler, an assistant professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law who is the editor of the FCPA Professor website.
Christianity Today – Jan. 3, 2019
Tobin Grant, professor, SIU Carbondale Department of Political Science, reviewed the book “From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity (Chicago Studies in American Politics)” by Michele Margolis.
WSIU Radio – Jan. 3, 2019
Chinese twins are helping lead the SIU Saluki swimming and diving team.
Southern Illinoisan – Jan. 3, 2019
As declining enrollment leaves a little more room on the tracks, StairMasters and swimming lanes at the Southern Illinois University Student Recreation Center, residents are turning out in record numbers to fill the facility up.
KFVS-TV – Jan. 2, 2019
… allotted up to $1.9 million in state funding to Southern Illinois University in Carbondale to provide scholarships for freshman and transfer students.
WSIU Radio – Jan. 2, 2019
Justin Schoof, chair of Geography and Environmental Resources at SIU Carbondale, discusses findings in the November 2018 release of the second part of the 4th National Climate Assessment report.
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