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…
Author: Tim Crosby
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…
Making career and family life work is always a challenge. Two researchers at SIU have not only figured out how to do that, but give a lot of extra time and service, too.
Although it produces a needed product, a strip mine can lay waste to large areas of land, making them unfit for wildlife for years to come, unless steps are taken…
Ahmad Z. Qamar is the 2018 recipient of the Gower Fellowship. Qamar, a research assistant in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, received the award…
Two student engineering organizations lit it up at a local community’s celebration of under-the-hood muscle over Labor Day weekend. SAE Saluki Baja and Saluki Formula Racing teamed up at a…
SIU’s STEM Education Research Center (SERC) is quickly taking shape at Pulliam Hall, in a space that has helped train science teachers for decades. STEM is an acronym for science,…
SIU really rolls out the welcome wagon for students each and every fall. Here’s a quick look at some of the events planned for the first few days of the…