Tim Crosby, Author at This Is SIU

June 1, 2023

#SalukiPrideSaluki Pride: Sabrina Nilufar wins SIU’s Early Career Faculty Excellence Award

Sabrina Nilufar, assistant professor in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Materials Engineering, is this year’s recipient of the university-level Early Career Faculty Excellence Award at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Tim Crosby

December 15, 2022

#SalukiPrideSaluki Pride: Haibo Wang teaches, researches integrated circuits, sensor data

From a homemade crystal radio receiver built as a child to a professor at a top university, Haibo Wang has always been about capturing electrons and making them behave.

Tim Crosby

November 10, 2022

#SalukiPrideSaluki Pride: Tatiana Sherrill ensures SIU is a safe workplace

SIU Carbondale is home to many cutting-edge technologies and sciences, as well as being a small city unto itself. In that environment, safety cannot be a secondary consideration.

Tim Crosby

October 13, 2022

#SalukiPrideSaluki Pride: Naoufal Lakhssassi uses genes to help plants resist diseases and improve their seed composition

The SIU System Inventor of the Year Award recognizes innovators who perform exemplary work in the field of technologies, discoveries, innovations, and made outstanding contributions to the SIU system during the past five years.

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Saluki Pride: Elizabeth Cheek supports crews who keep campus beautiful

A veritable army of employees work together to keep the SIU campus in top shape and good repair. For two decades, Elizabeth Cheek has been an important part of that effort.

Tim Crosby

September 29, 2022

Tim Crosby

September 15, 2022

#SalukiPrideSaluki Pride: For Mike Eichholz, service, second-chances and the great outdoors are focuses

A researcher and teacher who focuses on waterfowl and wetlands management, Mike Eichholz values service as one of his main contributions to his work at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. To that end, he volunteers his time and expertise with groups that help set wildlife management policies throughout the state and country.

Tim Crosby

April 14, 2022

#SalukiPrideSaluki Pride: Arash Komaee works to unlock next generation of surgical robotic tools

Ensconced in a laboratory packed with high-tech equipment, SIU Carbondale’s Arash Komaee is working on technology that might result in a new generation of surgical instruments. His efforts may someday lead, for example, to physicians using magnetize tools that can safely be operated inside a patient’s body using sufficiently strong magnets outside the body.

Tim Crosby

January 20, 2022

#SalukiPrideSaluki Pride: Richard Smith plays a pivotal role within Information Technology

Whether in person, virtually, or behind-the-scenes, Richard Smith plays an important role in keeping the university community safe…

Tim Crosby

December 2, 2021

#SalukiPrideSaluki Pride: Meksem receives inaugural SIU System Inventor of the Year honor

The SIU Board of Trustees recently honored Khalid Meksem with the inaugural SIU System Inventor of the Year award. Meksem, a professor of genomics and genetics at SIU Carbondale, is an internationally recognized expert in the field of seed traits and nematodes resistance.

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Saluki Pride: For Karen Baertsch, collaboration is key in any language

Karen Baertsch came to SIU Carbondale nearly two decades ago after first attending a conference on campus. That Baertsch enjoys working with faculty and students is evident, according to Shannon McCrocklin, an assistant professor in the linguistics department. In Baertsch’s year as department chair, McCrocklin notes Baertsch’s supportive demeanor and a change in the environment with a goal of “working toward productive solutions to problems.”

Tim Crosby

October 28, 2021