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Did You Know?
If you watch AMC's "Better Call Saul" or "Breaking Bad," you're watching SIU alumnus Bob Odenkirk portray Saul Goodman.
Point of Pride
Students participating in the annual summer field school with the Center for Archaeological Investigations spent the summer of 2021 excavating at Fort Kaskaskia. The students learned how to use drones and ground penetrating radar in archaeology and discovered an intact cellar that would have been beneath a long-dismantled building.