SIU students win NASA contest to design mining robots for the moon
The previous year created the need for going virtual, but that didn’t prevent engineering students at Southern Illinois University Carbondale for shooting for the moon.
Unlocking the past: Archaeological students continue work unearthing history
For Jane Neubauer, a senior in Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s anthropology program, there is a definite thrill in finding an artifact during a dig.
SIU physics major Lincoln Weber earns Goldwater Scholarship
Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Lincoln Weber has earned a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Award,…
SIU students, faculty research area’s history of race and law
Raised in Southern Illinois, Joseph Tondini, a second-year SIU Carbondale School of Law student from Marion, said he…
Chemistry researcher’s CAREER grant to fund solar energy work modeled on tree leaves
Some look at a tree and see a lovely poem. Others, such as Pravas Deria, see in its…
SIU researchers find naked mole-rat bite force varies with social status in surprising way
Sometimes new discoveries come wrapped in, well, not the most attractive packages. Behold, the aptly named naked mole-rat.…
High-end, high-tech scientific instruments anchor the past, present and future of SIU research
Celebrating SIU’s Saluki TRADITION, Saluki PRIDE and Saluki PROMISE for SIU’s 150thAnniversary, This Is SIU is publishing a…
Allison McMinn to be honored as Lincoln Academy student laureate on Saturday
Allison McMinn is the 2019 Lincoln Academy of Illinois student laureate for Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The Chatham…
SIU researcher discovers new bacterium living deep beneath former atomic test site
Those hilariously serious nuclear age monster movies from the 1950s haven’t got anything on the latest discovery by…
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…