By Joel Kottman, Staff Reporter
• November 20, 2021
Professor Alan Walters, a professor of Plant, Soil and Agricultural Systems has been working to create heat tolerant pumpkins that can grow in warmer climates.
Walters teaches vegetable science and...
Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18 year-old from Antioch, Illinois on trial in Kenosha, Wisconsin for charges stemming from fatally shooting two people and injuring a third in August 2020, was found not guilty on...
By Jamilah Lewis, Staff Reporter
• November 19, 2021
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s research team, µBites (micro-bites,) for their Deep Space Food Challenge to find ways...
By Ryan Jurich , Staff Reporter
• November 19, 2021
Campus Lake, touted as “one of the jewels” of Southern Illinois in university promotions, has been closed for seven years due to high toxicity levels, and continues to run up against obstacles to rehabilitation.
In...
In a nonbinding vote, the Faculty Senate decided against a resolution including a “pass/no-pass” grading option following a series of traumatic events during the Fall 2021 semester.
“I think it...
Rion Towey decided to do Hay Fever, a comedy play, to provide people with just a few nights to enjoy a show and relax.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale theater department is putting on the play...
Campus workers are on strike at Columbia University in New York right now, their second this year, and the second largest current strike in the country.
Media outlets have paid renewed attention to...
Registered Student Organizations (RSOs) rely heavily on fundraising to support their activities throughout the year, but have been restricted from one of their go-to fundraising tools, food sales.
Program...
17At 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 11, 2021, the cadets of Southern Illinois University’s ROTC program started their silent vigil to commemorate Veterans Day and honor those who have served in the military, past...
By William Box, Staff Reporter
• November 17, 2021
Michelle Dietzel, a second-year student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU), was injured in a shooting near campus on the night of Oct. 23 during a student party.
Dietzel was shot in the...
By William Box, Staff Reporter
• November 13, 2021
The Big Muddy Film Festival RSO is allowing students to begin prescreening independent film submissions for their festival in February. The prescreening began Sunday, Nov. 7 and continues at Southern Illinois...
The Residence Hall Association (RHA) is an on campus organization that is responsible for helping students who live in the dorms voice their concerns about what changes they want to see in the residence...
![Zachary Gutenkauf and Jennifer Pierce start research as part of the SIU research team that helps to feed astronauts in Life Science III at SIU Nov. 8, 2021 in Carbondale, Illinois. “This is a multidisciplinary team requiring many specialties. Currently we are in phase one, which is the NASA proposal phase. We are waiting on the phase two ‘rules’ for proof of the concept, which are anticipated to be revealed tomorrow at 10am on NASA TV [Tuesday November 9, 2021]. Once we know the rules for phase two, then the game is afoot,” director of the coal and energy research and a professor in geology, Ken B. Anderson, said.](https://dailyegyptian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NASAresearch1-900x796.jpg)
