SIU successfully hosted the Student Steel Bridge Competition national finals, which brought hundreds of engineering students to campus May 31-June 1. The event was free and open to the public. The American…
Author: Tim Crosby
Technology rises, but not always without a potential cost. Take the case of so-called “PFASs.” Such per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances have made life easier in many ways, from being key…
Ask Lincoln Weber what he’ll be doing in Japan this summer, and the Southern Illinois University Carbondale student is happy to tell you. “For my spectroscopy project, I’m basically testing…
The first thing to strike a visitor to the anteroom housing SIU’s massive collection of bird specimens is its seeming guardian: An enormous, immature bald eagle frozen in full spread-wing pose, magnificent and menacing.
When it comes to cancer, it might be all about rooting out the trouble-makers. A researcher in the engineering degree program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale just received a grant…
Take a rubber ball and throw it against a wall. It will bounce back to you every single time. This childhood pastime is also an exercise in classical physics, the…
When you flip that switch on the wall, you expect that light to go on. Reliability is one of the most basic requirements for electricity suppliers. A classroom of undergraduate…
Thirty years is a long time to do anything. For Jenise Wilson, however, those three decades at SIU have been an evolving experience with one constant at their center: students, and the university’s relationship with them.
If you want to talk to duck hunters, you have to go where the ducks are. For an aspiring wildlife manager at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, that meant lots of…
When it comes identifying cougars, sometimes you can’t believe your eyes. That is to say, people often mistakenly identify photos other creatures – bobcats, house cats, dogs and other species…