SIUE’s La’Derrick Ward is OVC Male Field Athlete of the Year
SIUE’s La’Derrick Ward was selected as the Ohio Valley Conference Male Field Athlete of the Year as voted by the league’s track and field coaches.Ward, who has been ranked No. 1 nationally after...
View Article“Hattitude” and Goodwill Win the Day at SIUE’s Meridian Derby
It might have been an easier job to pick a winning horse Tuesday than to select two top hat contenders out of the nearly 160 women who came to the Meridian Derby at Fairmont Park Racetrack in...
View ArticleSIU Board Confirms Ansari as SIUE Provost
The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees today confirmed Dr. Parviz Ansari (Pair-VEEZ An-SAR-ee) as the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs for the Edwardsville campus. The board...
View ArticleSIUE Fee Changes Approved by SIU Board of Trustees
The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees today approved fee-related changes for the Edwardsville campus for the 2014-15 academic year. The changes made during the board’s meeting on the...
View ArticleNCAA Honors Three SIUE Teams for Academic Performance
Three SIUE teams were among those receiving public recognition awards for top academic performance from the NCAA Wednesday. The SIUE men’s cross country, women’s tennis and women’s soccer squads were...
View ArticleSIUE CosmoQuest Crowd Funding Effort Raises $24,000 for Science
The CosmoQuest team at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville kicked off a 36-day fundraiser April 26-27 with a 36-hour Google Hangout-on-Air broadcast. This “Hangoutathon” raised more than...
View ArticleCrystal Nesbit’s Persistent, Twisting Journey to SIUE Graduation
A meandering journey involving learning, issues of life and death, family and faith led Crystal Nesbit to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. During that trip, Nesbit learned what happened to a...
View ArticleSIU SDM Pitches in with Special Olympics at SIUE’s Korte Stadium
More than 500 Special Olympics athletes from southwestern Illinois competed during the last weekend in April at the annual Spring Games at SIUE’s Korte Stadium. At the same time, approximately 45...
View ArticleSIU President Dunn Makes First Commencement Remarks at SIUE
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Chancellor Julie Furst-Bowe oversaw the first of four 2014 Spring Commencement exercises on Friday night in the Vadalabene Center on campus. The festivities...
View ArticleSIUE Grabs OVC Softball Crown and First NCAA D-I Tournament Bid
SIUE earned the automatic bid to the NCAA Softball Tournament with a convincing 12-1 victory in six innings in the 2014 Ohio Valley Conference Tournament championship game in Jacksonville, Ala.The...
View ArticleSIUE School of Pharmacy’s Lubsch Receives National Honor
The Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group awarded Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Lisa Lubsch its 2014 Presidential Citation for service during its annual meeting May 2 in Nashville. Lubsch,...
View ArticleSIUE School of Nursing Students Offer Triage Services to Needy
Seven Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Nursing students offered triage services to those in need during a Remote Area Medical (RAM) community health clinic held May 2-4 at the Jackie...
View ArticleSIUE Charter School Seniors Look Back and Ahead
The last few years of high school were full of trials and testing so much so that Ramhad Walker of East St. Louis wanted to quit. But the 19-year-old thanked the staff of Southern Illinois University...
View ArticleJacks Named SIUE School of Business Professor of the Year
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Tim Jacks, Ph.D., was named the School of Business Professor of the Year by the student organization Emerging Leaders Improving Through Experience (ELITE)....
View ArticleSIUE School of Education Graduates Second Class of Doctoral Candidates
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville graduated its second class of students to earn the doctor of education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership Saturday, May 10. The 11 graduates received their...
View ArticleSIUE’s Van Leishout featured in Alton Telegraph
SIUE’s Leslie Van Leishout, coordinator of theater education and director of Cougar Theater, was featured in an Alton Telegraph story posted May 12. Telegraph writer Vicki Bennington describes Van...
View ArticleBethalto’s McCune is SIUE Student Government Senator of the Year
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Student Government has selected Madeline McCune as the 2014 recipient of Senator of the Year Award. The award is presented annually to a student senator who...
View ArticleIncoming Frosh An Nguyen Featured in Rockford Register Star
An Nguyen is a first-generation college student scheduled to arrive at SIUE as a freshman this fall. Read her inspirational story in the Rockford Register Star. Writer Corrina Curry posted the profile...
View ArticleSIUE Charter School Graduating Seniors Encouraged to “Keep on Pushing”
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Charter High School (CHS) graduating seniors, at their 2014 commencement ceremony Friday night, were told that they are just “warming up” for...
View ArticleSIUE’s Robyn Berkley Featured in Recent WalletHub Study
Dr. Robyn Berkley, associate professor of management and marketing in the SIUE School of Business, was featured in WalletHub’s recent study examining the best and worst cities to work for a small...
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