#SalukiPride Archives

May 25, 2023

#SalukiPrideSaluki Pride: Jennifer Phillips receives SIU’s Women of Distinction Award

Jennifer Phillips, director of New Student Programs, is a double alumna of SIU, and in her nearly four years as a staff member, she has already made quite an impression on colleagues and the student families she works with.

A black woman wearing a pink shirt is smiling. She is leaning on a fountain and trees are visible in the background.

Christi Mathis

May 18, 2023

#SalukiPrideSaluki Pride: Bethany Peppers wins SIU’s Emerging Leader Award

Bethany Peppers, assistant director of Student Involvement and Leadership for the Office of Student Engagement, has worked at SIU for only a couple of years, but her connection to the university goes back much longer, and she’s already setting herself apart as a leader

Emma Metz, a senior in painting, is shown with her oil and acrylic paintings that captured a share of the 2023 Rickert-Ziebold Trust Award.

Pete Rosenbery

April 20, 2023

#SalukiPridePainter, art educator earn SIU’s prominent Rickert-Ziebold Trust Award

Emma Metz, a senior in painting, and Lacie Schneider, a December 2022 art education graduate, earned the 2023 Rickert-Ziebold Trust Award from Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Art and Design.

Pete Rosenbery

April 7, 2023

#SalukiPrideSIU Moot Court team captures national child welfare/adoption law title

Working together and knowing one another’s strengths is critical to success in any team activity, even apart from sports, as Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Law moot court team knows well.

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Saluki Pride: Melissa Viernow wears many hats to assure success for CDL and early childhood programs

As the director of Southern Region Early Childhood programs and the Child Development Lab (CDL) and senior lecturer for SIU’s School of Education, Melissa Viernow is constantly multi-tasking and stepping in to do whatever is needed and her dedication and drive assure the programs succeed, her colleagues say.

Christi Mathis

January 19, 2023

Christi Mathis

December 20, 2022

#SalukiPrideSIU food nerd and dietitian advise resolving to cook at home more in the new year

Two Southern Illinois University Carbondale professors have advice on how to keep the popular New Year’s resolutions of eating healthier, losing weight, starting a new hobby and spending more time with family: cook at home.

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.

Christi Mathis

December 8, 2022

#SalukiPrideSaluki Pride: Ryan Redner studies human behavior, teaches students how to help people with disabilities

Ryan Redner is fascinated by people and what they do, and he’s devoted his life to studying human behavior and teaching students to help others.

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.

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SIU expert and ‘food nerd’ offers tips for creating happy holiday meals despite rising prices

As the holidays approach and you begin preparing for festive meals, your wallet may notice a pinch, but Niki Davis, Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Hospitality, Tourism and Event Management Program manager and professor of practice, offers tips for holiday meals on tight budgets.

Christi Mathis

November 7, 2022