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Four Salukis who died in fall semester 2021 are being awarded posthumous degrees.

Salukis lost this semester will be given posthumous degrees 

December 3, 2021
A poster filled with photos of Jacob Jurinek during the vigil on Monday, Nov. 8, 2021 at Faner Plaza at SIU in Carbondale, Illinois. Jurinek, a junior at SIU, was one of the eight victims of the Astroworld festival tragedy on Nov. 5 in Houston.

“Larger-than-life” Jacob E. Jurinek: SIU campus mourns the loss of another student 

By Oreoluwa Ojewuyi, Editor in Chief
November 9, 2021
Defensive lineman Raymond Sullivan, 19, of Houston Texas, talks about the damage he saw from Hurricane Harvey Monday Sept. 11, 2017, outside SIU Arena. “On a scale from one to ten, it was an eleven,” Sullivan said. (Mary Newman | @MaryNewmanDE)

Hurricane Harvey was ‘heartbreaking,’ SIU student from Houston says

By Isabelle Rogers
September 13, 2017
Daily Egyptian file photo

Reading benefit to raise money for hurricane victims

By Tierra Carpenter
September 10, 2017
Volunteers sort donated clothes as more than 9,000 and counting have gathered at the downtown evacuation center at the George R. Brown Convention Center on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Trump visits Texas with promise of help for those battered by Harvey

By Hailey Branson-Potts and Noah Bierman | Los Angeles Times
August 29, 2017
A large boat storage facility teeters on the brink of collapse after being ripped apart by Hurricane HarveyTexas in Rockport, Texas, on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

SIU professor assists Harvey rescue efforts

By Marnie Leonard
August 28, 2017
A large boat storage facility teeters on the brink of collapse after being ripped apart by Hurricane HarveyTexas in Rockport, Texas, on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Harvey’s toll: 30,000 expected in Houston shelters, 450,000 may need disaster help

By Matt Pearce and Molly Hennessy-Fiske | Los Angeles Times
August 28, 2017
Chicago losing population, could be overtaken by Houston as 3rd largest US city

Chicago losing population, could be overtaken by Houston as 3rd largest US city

By Maria Eltagouri, Chicago Tribune
May 19, 2016

Southern Illinois coal plants could idle after electricity price drop

By Jacob Barker, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 4, 2016
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