Leading the pack: For Houghland, investing in students is a priority
Missy Houghland has seen SIU from many angles in her 13 years serving the university. Her view began…
Grant to fund research on solar-powered emergency communications network
Tornadoes, earthquakes and even the occasional inland hurricane or derecho, as it was called. All are foreseeable events…
SIU leadership program helps student engineers get real-world experience
It doesn’t get much more “real world” for up and coming engineers than working as an intern at…
Workshop aims to improve research storytelling
Storytelling using different disciplines and approaches is the subject of a workshop aimed at campus community and set…
Lack of planning results in social tensions at Mexico green energy site
Green energy is good, many would agree. But when global forces dictate that your backyard is the place…
Alumnus’s art, career touches on SIU’s past, present and future
Celebrating SIU’s Saluki TRADITION, Saluki PRIDE and Saluki PROMISE for SIU’s 150thAnniversary, This Is SIU is publishing a…
SIU engineering hosts Student Steel Bridge nationals
SIU successfully hosted the Student Steel Bridge Competition national finals, which brought hundreds of engineering students to campus May…
SIU researchers test method to remove contaminants from water
Technology rises, but not always without a potential cost. Take the case of so-called “PFASs.” Such per- and…
Answers to energy, technology needs may lie at the nanoscale for SIU undergrad
Ask Lincoln Weber what he’ll be doing in Japan this summer, and the Southern Illinois University Carbondale student…
SIU zoology collections a treasure for students, researchers
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.