The growth of bigger, faster, better-networked computers has led to many miracles of the modern world – as well as one big problem: there is so much data that it’s…
Author: Tim Crosby
This is one in a series featuring the university’s 2020 Faculty and Staff Excellence Award recipients, who are being recognized for outstanding teaching, significant scholarly and artistic contributions, and dedication…
This is one in a series featuring the university’s 2020 Faculty and Staff Excellence Award recipients, who are being recognized for outstanding teaching, significant scholarly and artistic contributions, and dedication…
The leaders of the business world of the future must be fast, flexible and comfortable working from far-flung locations. That means seamlessly adopting the latest communication tools. Students in Southern Illinois University’s…
Some look at a tree and see a lovely poem. Others, such as Pravas Deria, see in its leaves a perfect potential model for harnessing the sun’s energy. The idea…
In the world of civil engineering, so much depends on the ability to stabilize earthen structures. Bridge approach ramps, retaining walls and other structures all depend on the engineers’ ability…
Sometimes new discoveries come wrapped in, well, not the most attractive packages. Behold, the aptly named naked mole-rat. The east African rodent probably won’t win any prizes for its cute…
Celebrating SIU’s Saluki TRADITION, Saluki PRIDE and Saluki PROMISE for SIU’s 150thAnniversary, This Is SIU is publishing a monthly feature detailing the past, present and future of notable places, events…
Allison McMinn is the 2019 Lincoln Academy of Illinois student laureate for Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The Chatham native will receive the Abraham Lincoln Civic Engagement Award during the annual…
Those hilariously serious nuclear age monster movies from the 1950s haven’t got anything on the latest discovery by a researcher at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Only his science is for…