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Mensi Project bags are handmade by Christy Ferguson and project volunteers.

Mensi Project Gets Boost In Efforts To Address Period Poverty On Campus

Lara Hamdan

Christy Ferguson started the Mensi Project in 2018 at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to donate unneeded menstrual products to someone who could use them. Now the university is funding the effort with the help of new legislation.

Composer Jeremy Schonfeld debuted his "Iron & Coal" concert in 2018 at the Music Center at Strathmore Music Center in Maryland.

Arts

Composer Tells Father’s Story From Auschwitz To St. Louis In Rock-Opera Concert

Lara Hamdan

St. Louis composer Jeremy Schonfeld shares how his father's memoir, "Absence of Closure," inspired his "Iron & Coal" rock opera.

The new Military and Veterans Resource Center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville after it opened in Jan. 2021. The center aims to provide support for veterans and act as a space for the veteran community on campus and around Edwardsville.

Education

New Veterans Center At SIUE Makes Services More Accessible

Eric Schmid

The Military and Veteran Resource Center helps new and existing veteran students navigate the college experience.

The new Sumers Welcome center employees a glass, curtain wall design. [9/27/19]

Education

How 9 Metro St. Louis Universities Are Responding To Coronavirus Fears

Holly Edgell

Updated at 8:40 p.m. March 13, with new information about St. Louis University and the University of Missouri System There are no known cases of COVID-19…

Students walk through the campus of Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville in the Spring of 2017.

Education

SIUE Gets Millions From Illinois To Fund New Health Sciences Building

Eric Schmid

EDWARDSVILLE — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker released the first 10% of $105 million in funding for a new health sciences building on the Southern Illinois…

A pile of toxic materials from a previous EPA collection event. Illinois EPA will collect these kinds of items from Metro East residents in Edwardsville on Oct. 26.

Health, Science & Environment

Illinois EPA Will Collect Hazardous Waste This Weekend

Eric Schmid

EDWARDSVILLE — The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency will collect toxic and hazardous waste from Metro East residents this weekend. The agency,…

Workers for the Environmental Protection Agency collect a water sample. SIUE will investigate contaminants in regional water with a grant from the agency.

Health, Science & Environment

SIUE Students To Study Water Quality With EPA Grant

Eric Schmid

BELLEVILLE — Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will research water quality in the region with a $100,000 educational grant from the Environmental…

Andrew Mueth tends to a head of lettuce in VAST Produce's greenhouse in Waterloo on June 26. VAST won the 2018 Metro East Start-Up Challenge.

Economy & Business

Start-Up Challenge Offers $20,000 To Spur Business Growth In The Metro East

Eric Schmid

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's Small Business Development Center wants to grow Metro East startups focused on information technology, health…

A former Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville student is suing the college for its handling of her on-campus sexual assault claim while she was a senior in October 2017.

Education

Former SIUE student sues college over its investigation of a sexual assault

Ryan Delaney

A recent graduate of Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville is suing the school over the way it handled her allegation that another student sexually…

Education

SIU President Randy Dunn: ‘We are the stewards’ of the community

Southern Illinois University System president Randy Dunn has now completed his first year in that role. As part of the “St. Louis on the Air” series on…