Pete Rosenbery, Author at This Is SIU

June 12, 2025

#SalukiPrideSaluki Pride: Christopher Chiasson earns Teaching Excellence Award for non-tenure track faculty

In earning Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s 2025 Teaching Excellence Award for non-tenure track faculty, Christopher Chiasson is quick to emphasize that he didn’t win the honor on his own.

Pete Rosenbery

June 5, 2025

#SalukiPrideSaluki Pride: K. Allison Hammer earns SIU’s Emerging Leader Award

In just their second year on Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s faculty, K. Allison Hammer’s deep commitment to advancing diversity, gender equity and inclusion both in the classroom and the community is making a positive difference.

Pete Rosenbery

May 22, 2025

#SalukiPrideSIU Carbondale inducts 2024-25 members into Phi Kappa Phi honor society

Thirty-four Southern Illinois University Carbondale graduate and undergraduate students recently attended induction ceremonies into the university’s chapter of…

Robert Hahn (center) receives his Excellence Award from Joddy Murray, dean of the College of Liberal Arts (left) and Chancellor Austin Lane.

Pete Rosenbery

May 15, 2025

#SalukiPrideSaluki Pride: Robert Hahn earns Teaching Excellence Award

For Robert Hahn, professor of philosophy, emeritus, in the College of Liberal Arts, his innovative and creative 42-year career at Southern Illinois University Carbondale has been a “teacher’s dream come true.”

Two students stand in an auto shop, holding awards.

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SIU automotive technology students show their skills in statewide competition

Two students in Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s nationally recognized automotive technology program recently placed in the top three in automotive service technology in the SkillsUSA Illinois competition.

Pete Rosenbery

May 6, 2025

A man holding a pennant with a dog head that says Southern Illinois.

Pete Rosenbery

April 29, 2025

#SalukiPrideAnoja Kuruppu draws on own experience to help recruit, retain SIU students

It’s not hard for Anoja Kuruppu to provide perspective to prospective Salukis when he talks about student life at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the programs within in its College of Health and Human Sciences.

Pete Rosenbery

April 18, 2025

#SalukiPrideSIU fashion students hard at work to showcase creativity

There’s little time to waste for Jia Brown, Aaron Elliott, Nicole Robinson and other students in Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Fashion Studies program.

Musicians standing on stairs, holding trumpets.

Pete Rosenbery

February 17, 2025

#SalukiPrideSIU ensembles aim to make noise at ‘pinnacle in the trumpet world’

Two Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Music trumpet ensembles are working to hit their stride and make…

Pete Rosenbery

November 20, 2024

#SalukiPrideTelling a story: SIU journalism student’s photo earns national recognition

Capturing the joy of two young boys playing on the family farm on a spring day near Anna is the essence of visual storytelling. For Lylee Gibbs, a junior in Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s journalism program, that moment also earned honors from the world’s largest collegiate photojournalism competition.

A man is seated, and smiling, while holding a clarinet. He is wearing a blue t-shirt and jeans. There is a potted plant in the background.

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Clarinetist, composer Eric Mandat helps students find their right note

He’s a world-renowned clarinetist and composer who has helped Southern Illinois University Carbondale students unlock their potential for more than four decades.

Pete Rosenbery

July 29, 2024