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SIU students win NASA contest to design mining robots for the moon
  • Academics and Student Life

SIU students win NASA contest to design mining robots for the moon

  • Posted on July 21, 2021July 21, 2021
  • by Tim Crosby

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.

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Unlocking the past: Archaeological students continue work unearthing history
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Unlocking the past: Archaeological students continue work unearthing history

  • Posted on June 30, 2021June 30, 2021
  • by Pete Rosenbery

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.

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SIU physics major Lincoln Weber earns Goldwater Scholarship
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SIU physics major Lincoln Weber earns Goldwater Scholarship

  • Posted on April 6, 2021April 8, 2021
  • by Pete Rosenbery

Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Lincoln Weber has earned a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Award, which is among the pinnacle of honors for undergraduate research students. Weber,…

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SIU students, faculty research area’s history of race and law
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SIU students, faculty research area’s history of race and law

  • Posted on March 22, 2021March 22, 2021
  • by Pete Rosenbery

Raised in Southern Illinois, Joseph Tondini, a second-year SIU Carbondale School of Law student from Marion, said he heard family stories while growing up about discrimination that his grandfather and…

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Chemistry researcher’s CAREER grant to fund solar energy work modeled on tree leaves
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Chemistry researcher’s CAREER grant to fund solar energy work modeled on tree leaves

  • Posted on February 28, 2020February 28, 2020
  • by Tim Crosby

Some look at a tree and see a lovely poem. Others, such as Pravas Deria, see in its leaves a perfect potential model for harnessing the sun’s energy. The idea…

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SIU researchers find naked mole-rat bite force varies with social status in surprising way
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SIU researchers find naked mole-rat bite force varies with social status in surprising way

  • Posted on January 9, 2020January 9, 2020
  • by Tim Crosby

Sometimes new discoveries come wrapped in, well, not the most attractive packages. Behold, the aptly named naked mole-rat. The east African rodent probably won’t win any prizes for its cute…

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High-end, high-tech scientific instruments anchor the past, present and future of SIU research
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High-end, high-tech scientific instruments anchor the past, present and future of SIU research

  • Posted on November 27, 2019November 27, 2019
  • by Tim Crosby

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…

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Allison McMinn to be honored as Lincoln Academy student laureate on Saturday
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Allison McMinn to be honored as Lincoln Academy student laureate on Saturday

  • Posted on November 14, 2019November 14, 2019
  • by Tim Crosby

Allison McMinn is the 2019 Lincoln Academy of Illinois student laureate for Southern Illinois University Carbondale.  The Chatham native will receive the Abraham Lincoln Civic Engagement Award during the annual…

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SIU researcher discovers new bacterium living deep beneath former atomic test site
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SIU researcher discovers new bacterium living deep beneath former atomic test site

  • Posted on November 12, 2019November 12, 2019
  • by Tim Crosby

Those hilariously serious nuclear age monster movies from the 1950s haven’t got anything on the latest discovery by a researcher at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Only his science is for…

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Grant to fund research on solar-powered emergency communications network
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Grant to fund research on solar-powered emergency communications network

  • Posted on October 18, 2019October 18, 2019
  • by Tim Crosby

Tornadoes, earthquakes and even the occasional inland hurricane or derecho, as it was called. All are foreseeable events that could take down portions of the communication grid when it’s needed…

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