The Grand Tower Energy Center — a southern Illinois power plant that shut down nearly five years ago — sits vacant on land ...

On Feb. 7, SIU established the  Melvin C. Terrell Special Collection and renamed the Faner Hall central atrium in his honor.

When they said not to wait for your first pap smear, they were not kidding. I got my first pap smear at 23, two years later than I should have. A month later, I learned my test result was abnormal. A ...

Sometime in 2017 in a classroom at Galatia Junior High — after third period art class and before square pizza paired with milk for lunch — yours truly was 13 and watching a teacher put a condom on a ...

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Flowers and movies and treats, oh my! In case you haven’t strolled through the seasonal aisle at a supermarket lately, love ...

Critical Forum is hosting the Love at the Glove art exhibition on Friday, Feb 13 in the Glove Factory from 6 to 9 p.m. Food ...

The SIU softball team walked into the 2026 season with high expectations after winning the Missouri Valley Conference regular ...

Southern Illinois University alum Jack Piatt was nominated for an Academy Award for best live action short film with the film ...

Before the Voices of Impact luncheon, a celebration honoring changemaker Black alumni of SIU, attendees gathered in small ...

SIU alumni Charlie McCann and Marcia Allen met in Browne Auditorium, a large lecture hall in the center of the SIU campus, on their first day of physics class in 1965. It took them 47 years to learn ...

The Salukis men’s basketball squad made their way to Terre Haute, Indiana on Monday, Feb. 9 to take on the Indiana State Sycamores. They led for 32 minutes in what ended up being a comfortable 80-65 ...