Students and faculty work on finding solutions to the problem of toxic algae blooms in a laboratory at SIU. Pictured here, left to right, are Sushmita Regmi, graduate student in civil engineering; Jia Liu, assistant professor in the School of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering; Nafeesa Khan, graduate student in civil engineering; and Sudip Baral, graduate student in civil engineering. (Photo by Russell Bailey)
A team of students from Southern Illinois University Carbondale is looking at using the power of the sun, combined with iron-based nanomaterials, to destroy the harmful effects of algae blooms afflicting Campus Lake, a common problem throughout the country.
Wendell Williams, who has extensive experience in growing enrollment at various institutions, will become Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s next associate chancellor of enrollment management, pending approval by the SIU Board of Trustees.
The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will host a virtual conversation with Julie Moore Wolfe, the mayor of Decatur, Illinois, on Wednesday, May 12.
Nominations are open for the inaugural Paul Simon-Jim Edgar Statesmanship Award, which will honor an Illinois elected official who has displayed a pattern of public service characterized by vision, courage, compassion, effectiveness, civility and bipartisanship.
An agreement between Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Carbondale Elementary School District No. 95 will provide mentoring and educational opportunities, summer camps and collaboration between the university and the 1,500-student district.
The academic achievements of about 2,000 Southern Illinois University Carbondale graduates will be celebrated in person during outdoor commencement ceremonies at Saluki Stadium, Friday through Sunday, May 7-9.
Years of planning. Countless hours of hard work. And now, Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Touch of Nature Multiuse Trail System may be destined to become one of the Midwest’s premier mountain biking parks. It’s not only the first of its kind in the region, but also the only university-affiliated multiuse trail of this scope in the country.
Former Illinois State Sen. Paul Schimpf, a 2000 SIU School of Law alumnus, will deliver the keynote address during commencement ceremonies on May 7.
When discussing HerrinFesta Italiana, Herrin’s annual weeklong celebration that runs through Memorial Day, it’s hard to not also mention Joey Helleny. The work that Helleny and myriad other volunteers put into running one of the region’s largest and best-known festivals is not only important to Williamson County but Southern Illinois as well.
Jason Williams can look at certain geological features of Earth and apply them theoretically to Mars. He soon will graduate with a doctorate in geology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Earth Systems and Sustainability and will join the elite group of scientists who study such questions.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale has been long known for its global reach, including welcoming its first international student in 1947. Christopher Behan, a professor with the SIU School of Law, is continuing the relationship with his recent selection as a Fulbright Specialist.
