Former SIUE student James Whitehead of Springfield is facing two counts of child pornography for allegedly disseminating photographs of children participating in sexual acts. Whitehead, 18, in excess of using a computer in one of the Woodland Hall labs to access child pornography, according to SIUE Police Chief Richard Harrison.… Post the First Comment

Textbook Service's new location in University Park is being renovated for the fall. Textbook Service, now in the basement of Lovejoy Library, will be moving to 200 University Park Drive. "They are completing the demolition of the existing space," campus architect Rick Klein said.… Post the First Comment

The School of Business is going to have a new leading face this fall. The new dean, Gary Giamartino, will be coming to SIUE in the beginning of October. Giamartino is currently wrapping up things at the University of Detroit Mercy as dean of the School of Business.… Post the First Comment

An SIUE professor has helped bring Mongolia, a struggling democracy, into the 21st century as the country tries to modernize after 70 years of communist rule. Luke Snell, a professor in the Engineering Department and the director of the department's Concrete Construction Resource Unit, spent 14 days in Mongolia teaching others about concrete.… Post the First Comment