August 2024

CARBONDALE, Ill. – A new nationwide healthcare initiative, #blackprostatecancer Check Challenge, is honoring Charles D. Neblett, SIU Carbondale alum and civil rights icon. Neblett led nonviolent student protests against campus segregation as a freshman at SIU Carbondale in 1959, when Delyte W. Morris, then-chancellor, eventually worked with Neblett to integrate the campus housing. Neblett went on to become […]

by Christi Mathis CARBONDALE, Ill. — As the home of the only university-housed crematory in the country and one of six mortuary science and funeral services bachelor’s degree programs in the U.S., Southern Illinois University Carbondale is expanding its leadership in the field with a continuing education program for crematory operators. Robert Broomfield, the associate

CARBONDALE, Ill. – Southern Illinois University Carbondale will host a series of public astronomical viewings starting later this month and continuing through December. Bob Baer, associate scientist in the School of Physics and Applied Physics and a coordinator of the viewings, said it’s important that SIU host these as a community service to share the