Storytelling using different disciplines and approaches is the subject of a workshop aimed at campus community and set for this Friday. The Center for Ecology and Antonio Martinez of the…
Author: Tim Crosby
Green energy is good, many would agree. But when global forces dictate that your backyard is the place to begin the revolution, local populations can suffer, especially when maximizing profit…
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…
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…
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…