SIUE is partnering with the Illinois State Police, the SIU School of Law, SWIC and the city of Belleville to create the only accredited forensic science program in southern Illinois. 

Professor Gary Hicks was as surprised as the rest of the staff to find that he had been awarded the Margaret Going endowed scholarship. 

Local religious figure and preacher Tom Rayborn returned to campus last week after being barred from the area due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Small Business Development Center is teaming up with Town and Country Bank to host a seminar on the Advantage Illinois program, which is intended to help women, veteran and minority-owned businesses in Illinois get loans.

An SIUE freshman nursing student was killed in a car crash Sunday morning.

The Office of International Affairs welcomed roughly 900 students from 61 different countries this semester, achieving the highest number to date. 

The Edwardsville Art Center hosts “Still Life: Painters and Objects,” curated by Jane Barrow, an SIUE painting professor of 24 years.

SIUE will install dispensers for menstrual projects in some restrooms after another wave of vandalism against the Mensi Project bags hanging in all restrooms on campus.

Among last week's events, one stood out for college students — student loan forgiveness.

Low enrollment has caused many students and faculty members to rework their schedules for the fall semester. 

SIUE has brought back the ability for those not enrolled in the university to take courses through a program called Educard.

Erin Vigneau-Dimick’s graduate class revealed their pottery exhibit at the Fuller Dome, featuring brief speeches by the students and several wall panels full of information on the history and origins of this pottery. 

Academic advising is working to help students decide, declare and change their majors with a newer system in place. 

As a public relations intern for the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center, Allison Simpson worked on a push for video-based content, in addition to creating social media posts and a social media contest for local teachers.  

With a safer future in sight, the SIUE COVID-19 dashboard has been shut down as of July 1, 2022. 

After their first fundraiser, the nursing anesthesiology program purchased new equipment, which will offer better visibility and allow students to train side-by-side with instructors.   

With an increase in funding for the Illinois Monetary Award Program (MAP), more students are able to receive money to help cover the costs of tuition.

With many struggling to plan their financial futures in these difficult times, Dylan Marble works to teach financial literacy and long-term planning on his summer internship. 

After the swift move from in-person to online learning in 2020, students were forced into isolation coupled with online learning. Because of this, many students fell behind academically, socially and mentally.

Access to 10 databases provided by the library ended on July 1. These cuts were made to allocate funding to staffing the understaffed library.

On a rainy Saturday in East St. Louis, protestors took to the streets, calling for reparations to be paid for the damages done 151 year ago throughout  the city.

SIUE recently introduced a new course, CI-495, also known as Mindfulness for Helping Professionals. The class teaches students how to practice mindfulness, self-compassion and stress management.

Pumpkin toadlets, tiny frogs no bigger than a dime, have been gaining lots of attention on Twitter thanks to a research paper examining their inability to jump. 

With many students gone for summer break, SIUE’s campus construction continues to improve the university by adding and renovating buildings and parking lots across the campus.

Tisha Brooks is the newly-selected interim associate dean for the College of Arts and Sciences.

Students from SIUE’s School of Engineering competed at Baja Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Tennessee Tech in a variety of categories with the car they built themselves, the Cougar Baja. The team placed 3rd in Overall Dynamic Events.

Khushali Sarnot received the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Student Leadership Award in recognition of her leadership roles in many student organizations, as well as off-campus pharmacy work.  

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The Archaeology Field School is digging deep to uncover thousand-year-old artifacts in SIUE’s own backyard.

Stop the Bleed will help the city of Edwardsville train residents to prevent serious bleeding in case of accidents. 

Glen Carbon will soon be getting a Meijer, a store that includes groceries, electronics and a pharmacy. Students at SIUE have many thoughts on the matter.

Protestors took to the steps of the Edwardsville courthouse in response to the Supreme Court’s opinion draft indicating the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade. 

Samantha Moxley wanted to bring awareness to the under-researched issue of vicarious trauma in her senior year.

Brian Gomez, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in public health, has worked towards HIV prevention and awareness. Gomez said that when he was growing up in northern Chicago, sexual health was not talked about. He said there was a lot of stigma surrounding it.

Two pharmacy graduates Danny Tran and Allison Shin, found students’ ADHD symptoms worsened during the pandemic.

Alyssa Moore, who graduates this spring with degrees in fine arts and psychology, drew upon her and her friends’ struggles and connected them to Biblical themes to create modern retellings from female perspectives.

Starting July 1, the Cougar Bucks discount for Dining Services will decrease from 10 percent to 5 percent.

The Kimmel Student Involvement Center hosted the Drop-N-Serve event, which allowed students to drop in, craft a service gift and donate them to community agencies on April 21. 

Rooms of Reality, formerly known as the Tunnel of Oppression, took submissions from students who experienced ableism, racism, homophobia and sexism and compiled them onto boards for viewing, although some expressed concerns of retraumatization.

Community members and members of local government progress towards affordable housing after last year’s income study revealed the level of inequity in the city, impacting housing affordability.

This fall, Dining Services plans to reopen certain dining options and extend their hours of operation

Matthew Petrocelli, professor of criminal justice, gave a lecture on how research indicates American policing should be reformed but not abolished, including police culture and socialization, training and accountability. 

ACCESS is requesting higher funds to purchase items that will aid students with mental and physical disabilities.

A Yale professor and author of the section on autism in the fourth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — a handbook for psychologists and psychiatrists for diagnosing mental disorders — spoke about how understanding of autism has changed over time last week.

Student fees may increase by 5 percent for the 2022-23 fiscal year.