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Lanese Farr stacks her crate and holds her balance on Tuesday March 16, 2021, at Recreational Center, Carbondale Ill.

Spirit Week Crate Stacking

By Monica Sharma, Staff Photographer • March 17, 2021
Contestants teetered on towers of milk crates as they attempted to construct the tallest one during the Rec Center's Spirit Week Crate Stack Tuesday March 16.
Sunil Basnet, an international PHD student from Nepal works in the department of chemistry on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill. Basnet works as a member of Dr. Sean D Moran’s research group. “In our group, we are focused on studying ultrafast dynamics occurring on biomolecules like enzymes, metalloproteins and others,” Basnet said. He said he is involved with the study of enzyme dynamics and his primary focus is to explore what kind of motions, processes, reactions, etc., occur inside the enzyme on their active site, whether it is “proton transfer, twisting motions or any other kind of electron transfer dynamics.” By using two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy to study such dynamics in femtosecond time scale, the teams’ research is enriching the scientific community with the knowledge of ultrafast dynamics. “This can in-turn help designing any specific drug that can target enzymes. Getting detailed information is always fruitful,” Basnet said.

International Student Feature: enzyme research could lead to medical advances

By Subash Kharel, Staff Photographer • March 14, 2021
Sunil Basnet, an international Ph.D. student from Nepal, works in the Department of Chemistry on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill.
Employees work on customers’ clothes on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at Horstman’s Cleaners & Furriers in Carbondale, Ill.

Horstman’s, Carbondale’s last dry cleaner

By Chris Bishop, Staff Photographer • March 11, 2021
Kiefer believes that Horstman’s is a pillar in the Carbondale community, having been in the city for so long, garnering much of it’s business from Carbondale itself but also from many of the neighboring communities.
Abdul Rahim Khalil assists a customer Mar. 1, 2021, at Rahim’s Beauty Supply in Carbondale, Ill. Khalil said he noticed there were not many Afican-American owned businesses, especially beauty stores, in the southern Illinois area, so he decided to create one himself.

Rahim’s Beauty Supply

By Sophie Whitten, Staff Photographer • March 10, 2021
“When I first started, I went to a hair place [...] I went in and sat down to talk with them and they gave me an account. The lady said, ‘Well, what do you need?’ I looked at her and said, ‘I don’t know anything about the hair,’” Khalil said.
Kathryn Pugh, a senior majoring in chemistry, practices COVID-19 regulations and the tuba in Altgeld Hall on Feb. 22, 2021, in Carbondale, Ill.

Gallery: Marching Salukis adapt practices with COVID-19 restrictions

By Madison Taylor, Staff Photographer • March 9, 2021
They wear masks designed to play their specific instruments. Some have holes in the front for instruments like baritones and clarinets while others have holes going on the side of the mask for instruments like the piccolo.
Sadhbh Mowlds, a second year MFA student from Ireland, works in the glass blowing hot shop at SIU in Carbondale, Ill. Feb. 12, 2021. “It was really last minute that I decided to get a master’s. I was just feeling like I was in a rut and North America has the best reputation for glass schools,” Mowlds said.

From Ireland to the United States: International student pursues glass blowing at SIU

By Leah Sutton, Photo Editor • March 6, 2021
“I would have really liked to have gone home for winter, but it just wouldn’t have been possible,” Mowlds said. “I managed to get back to Europe during the summer when everything happened and I was able to get back into Ireland just because I have citizenship there, but it took me a long time to get back into Germany. I tried to get a flight from Ireland into Germany and that didn’t work, they wouldn’t let me out.”
Federick Martin Qualls, owner of Qualls Hat & Co., poses for a portrait inside his store Feb. 9, 2021. Qualls Hat & Co. is located on Walnut Street in Carbondale, Ill.

Hat maker turns hobby into inspiration

By Subash Kharel, Staff Photographer • February 28, 2021
“I was inspired to open up a hat store to reinvent myself to show the incarcerated that they don’t have to depend on nobody to open up a business. I have been incarcerated myself,” Qualls said. 
Kampus Kuts Barbershop and Salon Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. Kampus Kuts is located just off of SIU Carbondale’s campus at 825 S. Illinois Ave. in Carbondale, Ill. Chris Bishop | @quippedmediallc

Kampus Kuts: a staple of the Black community

By James Allen, Staff Photographer • February 27, 2021
For over 15 years, Kampus Kuts has serviced the people of Carbondale in all of their hair cutting needs. 
Dre James, owner of Victoria Candle Co. works on candle orders in his apartment Feb. 21, 2021, in Carbondale Ill. “Every month my customer basis is increasing so I’m obviously doing something right,” James said. He started his business in 2019 after having a dream about pouring candle wax. “I just joined the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce and the president ordered a candle, so I just got done making his,” James said.

Victoria Candle Co.: An entrepreneur’s dream of wax becomes a reality

By Leah Sutton, Photo Editor • February 26, 2021
“The first candles I made, I went to Dollar Tree and bought the candles that were already made and remelted them and it didn’t turn out too well. So that’s when I really started to research candle making,” James said.
SIU professor, Najjar Abdul-Musawwir, displays a painting of his of a vase in his studio at the Glove Factory on Friday, Feb. 13, 2021 in Carbondale, Ill. As a young adult, Abdul-Musawwir dropped out of high school and was later imprisoned after an armed robbery attempt. While in prison, he had a change of heart after meeting a nearby inmate who encouraged him to self-educate himself “I ended up not being in school and when I got in prison, he [a fellow inmate] made me realize that I couldn’t read...as a result, I read everything I could get my hands on. I read the dictionary several times from front to back, Abdul-Musawwir said. He left prison with his GED and came to SIU to start his undergraduate. Abdul-Musawwir was later offered to teach a class and to this day he is a professor in the School of Art and Design as well as the Department of Africana Studies.

Professor went from prison to prestige through art

By Jared Treece, Staff Photographer • February 25, 2021
Growing up in Chicago in the 1960s, as a kid, Abdul-Mussawwir was bused into primarily white schools. “They were trying to integrate, mind you. It was supposed to be a period of progress. Which they tried to bring Blacks and whites together, but there was a lot of confrontation,” Abdul-Mussawwir said. 
Dorothy Carter sits for portrait on Feb. 12 at her home in Marion, Ill. Born Jan. 25, 1918, Carter celebrated her 103rd birthday. She has lived in southern Illinois most of her life and has seen the area’s attitude towards race change during her time. “It’s much better now. We’re all mixed together now,” Carter said. “From thinking way back when we wasn’t allowed to associate together, now we are all friends together. We are all socialized together, we go to school together, it’s much different than it used to be years ago. It’s a pleasure to know that we all can get along in this world together. It’s more fun now than it used to be.”

Marion woman celebrates 103 years of life

By Nicolas Galindo, Managing Editor • February 24, 2021
Born before women were allowed to vote and before the end of World War I, Dorothy Carter celebrated her 103rd birthday on Jan. 25 in Marion, Ill.
National Guard helps administer COVID-19 vaccine

National Guard helps administer COVID-19 vaccine

By Sophie Whitten, Staff Photographer • February 21, 2021
With COVID-19 vaccinations becoming available to the public, the Illinois National Guard and the Jackson County Health Department have begun administering the vaccine at the Banterra Center to eligible community members.
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