In April, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s School of Nursing (SON) celebrated its Scholarship and Awards Luncheon. This year marked the 17th year of the annual ceremony, which recognizes the shared achievements and aspirations of nursing scholarship recipients and their sponsors. Faculty and staff in the SON welcomed guests in the Illinois/Mississippi Room of the Morris University Center. The luncheon provided an opportunity for sponsors and students to connect and enjoy an afte...
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Mass Casualty Simulation at SIUE, Students and First Responder Partners to the Rescue
18 April 2024, 2:00 PM
On the afternoon of April 15 at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus, parking lot 8, a Mass Casualty Simulation took place.
As part of the Care of Populations course, the community health students in collaboration with the mental health students and Mass Communication Department joined Edwardsville Fire/EMS, Air Evac Helicopter and other emergency response vehicles for the training exercise.
Robert Morgan, assistant fire chief of the Edwardsville Fire Department and Siyanbol...
Remembering Jessica Prost 1995-2024
5 April 2024, 2:40 PM
Jessica Elizabeth Prost, a student in the School of Nursing's anesthesia program, died following a year-long battle with brain cancer on Friday, March 29.
Jesssica's obituary is posted here.
The family will receive friends at the Schrader Funeral Home and Crematory, 14960 Manchester Road, Ballwin, Missouri, Friday, April 5 from 2-8 p.m. A funeral mass will be celebrated at Incarnate Word Catholic Church, 13416 Olive Boulevard, Chesterfield, Missouri on Saturday, April 6 at 10 a.m.
Her classma...
Chase Horton Receives HIMSS Scholarship in Healthcare Technology
4 April 2024, 11:22 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville master's in healthcare informatics candidate Chase Horton has received the 2023-2024 Midwest Gateway Chapter of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Chapter Scholarship. The Midwest Gateway Chapter of HIMSS is an organization of regional healthcare technology professionals. The Chapter awarded Horton a scholarship in the amount of $5,000.
“Without the networking and mentoring from my SIUE faculty, I would not hav...
Dr. Anne Perry, 1947-2024; Was Distinguished Nurse, Mentor and Education Pioneer
3 April 2024, 12:00 PM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville mourns the recent loss of Anne Perry, RN, MSN, EdD, FAAN. Dr. Perry was a professor emerita from the School of Nursing and was also an SIUE alum receiving her EdD in 1991. Dr. Perry was a distinguished nurse and served the School of Nursing many years as a faculty member, chair, and Interim Dean.
Her obituary is posted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and redistributed on the Legacy website.
Throughout her award-winning career, Dr. Perry co-authored seve...
St. Louis American Newspaper Spotlights both SIUE’s Media Event of Viola “Mother” Ford Fletcher and the WE CARE Clinic’s New Mobile Health Unit and Health Fair
2 April 2024, 9:35 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Simone Williams, diversity and engagement librarian at Lovejoy Library and assistant professor, was part of a front-page article in the March 28-April 3 edition of the St. Louis American that featured the University event that brought Viola “Mother” Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, to campus on March 19.
Simone shared that Mother Fletcher, co-author with her grandson Ike Howard of “Don...
SIUE School of Nursing’s Summer Camp Geared for High Schoolers Interested in the Field
27 March 2024, 3:20 PM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Nursing (SON) will host the IMAGINE (Increasing Mentorship and Graduation in Nursing Education) Summer Success Academy from Tuesday-Friday, June 11-14 for high school students aspiring to pursue an occupation in nursing. The summer camp will be a time for participants to enjoy taking part in activities related to their career interests, all while envisioning themselves in the nursing profession.
Participants will stay overnight in a resi...
SIUE WE CARE Clinic Introduces Mobile Health Unit during Health Fair, Co-hosted with East St. Louis Kappa Alpha Psi Alumni
19 March 2024, 10:30 AM
Showroom ready, designed with wellness in mind and manufactured to take health on the road, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Nursing’s (SON) WE CARE Clinic in East St. Louis displayed its new mobile health unit during a recent health fair.
The Clinic teamed with Kappa Alpha Psi, East St. Louis Alumni to present their first joint health fair on Saturday, March 9 on the Wyvetter H. Younge Higher Education Campus in East St. Louis. More than 30 vendors from the...
SIUE's Amy Kief Nominated for Excellence in Nursing Awards
14 March 2024, 9:56 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Amy Kief, MSN, RN, instructor in Family Health and Community Health Nursing, SIUE School of Nursing (SON), is one of 50 nurses nominated for this year’s St. Louis Magazine Excellence in Nursing Awards, presented by BJC HealthCare and Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing. Excellence in Nursing is supported by Saint Louis University Trudy Busch Valentine School of Nursing.
Kief’s nomination in the Educator Category for ...
SIUE Nursing Alumna Set to Circumnavigate Globe and Raise Awareness for Rare Disease
12 February 2024, 12:00 AM
In 2016, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s School of Nursing alumna Jenny Decker, ’06, made history as the first female and first solo kayaker to circumnavigate the Big Island in Hawaii. Now, Decker has her horizons set on solo circumnavigating the globe. This is her third attempt at doing so, after a number of setbacks and the Covid pandemic deterred her previous efforts. Decker knows how to handle setbacks though; she’s an intensive care traveling nurse with Charcot...
White Coat Ceremony Scenes from Inspiring and Expanding SIUE School of Nursing Anesthesia Program
16 January 2024, 8:34 PM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Nursing (SON) Nurse Anesthesia Program held its sixth annual White Coat Ceremony on January 9, celebrating 32 members of the Class of 2026 entering the clinical arena.
“The original symbolism of the donning of the white coat dates back to the nineteenth century, when physicians desired to lend a more scientific approach to the practice of medicine. This coat represents all...
SIUE Staff Senate Awards Fall 2023 Scholarship
13 December 2023, 5:17 PM
First-year nursing student Lauren Monke from Litchfield, IL is the recipient of the fall 2023 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Staff Senate scholarship.
“We are always excited to award deserving students with the means of furthering their education at SIUE,” said Angela White, Staff Senate secretary. “The Staff Senate has been awarding students scholarships annually for many years. It is the highlight of our year...
SIUE Graduate School Honors Outstanding Graduate Students
31 October 2023, 9:11 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Graduate School awarded prestigious scholarships to graduate students who have made exceptional contributions to teaching and research at the annual Awards Reception on October 24.
Master’s-level students who received the Competitive Graduate Award and Graduate Scholar Award for the 2023-2024 academic year were honored for their outstanding academic achievements. The scholarship recipients represent graduate programs from a wide variety of aca...
SIUE Grad School Presents Research Grants to Doctoral Students
10 August 2023, 9:00 AM
The recipients of the Graduate School’s 2023 Research Grants for Research Doctoral Students (RGRDS) awards have been selected. The RGRDS program awards grants of up to $1,000 on a competitive basis to support research/projects initiated and conducted by students of the SIUE EdD programs, DNP programs, and the co-operative PhD programs to enhance their academic progress. The purpose of this program is to support the research of doctoral students under the guidance of faculty advisors.
The ...
Two SIUE Professors are Recipients of CARLi SCOERs Grant
25 May 2023, 8:55 AM
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Chaya Gopalan, PhD, professor in the Departments of Applied Heath, Nurse Anesthesiology, and Mark Poepsel, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Mass Communications, have both received the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLi) Support for Creation of Open Educational Resources (SCOERs) grant. The grant is awarded to develop, improve and expand open educational resources by focusing on “The Human Conditi...