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SIU Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month

Join us in celebrating Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month Sept. 15-Oct. 15 with a variety of special events honoring the people, their culture and their contributions – including those of our alumni and students. ‘Esperanza: Celebrating Hispanic/Latinx Heritage and Hope’ is the theme.

SIU student measures and marks parts for a prototype mining robot

Mining the moon

An SIU student engineering team recently won NASA’s national annual LUNABOTS (virtual) competition with its prototype mining robot. The design assures the robot can successfully function on the moon.

SIU Student fits a captured bobcat with a GPS tracking collar

Tracking wild predators

Nicole Gorman, zoology graduate student/Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory research assistant, has made noteworthy discoveries studying bobcat and coyote movement in Southern and Central Illinois and the impact the animals have on their environments.

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