Our Education: Phi Theta Kappa recognizes SIUE for its exemplary transfer pathways
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EDWARDSVILLE Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) has named Southern Illinois University Edwardsville among 150 colleges and universities to its 2021 Transfer Honor Roll, which identifies the top four-year colleges and universities creating dynamic pathways to support community college transfer students. SIUE is among three Illinois public institutions represented.
Open to all regionally accredited baccalaureate degree-granting institutions, PTK’s Transfer Honor Roll recognizes four-year colleges and universities that have developed transfer pathways that lead to excellence and success among community college transfer students. Institutions are evaluated in the areas of transfer data, admissions, cost of attendance, campus life, recruitment practices and peer reviews.
Our Health: Krista Ludwig joins WU Urology Practice at Alton Memorial
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ALTON Urology has long been a male-dominated medical specialty. Washington University employs a diverse work force and has made the addition of a female urologic nurse practitioner on the Alton Memorial Hospital campus.
Krista Ludwig, MSN, ANP, FNP-BC, has joined urologic surgeon Dr. Arjun Sivaraman at the Washington University Urologic Surgery office located in Suite 205 of Medical Office Building A. For more information, call 618-433-6632.
Ludwig has more than 20 years of health care experience, most of which was spent working in intensive care units. She joined the Alton practice last year to expand and meet the urologic needs of the female population.
Who is Paul Wight AKA The Big Show and when did he sign with AEW?
Paul Donald Wight II, known as The Big Show in WWE, is an actor and professional wrestler.
After decades with WWE, Wight shocked fans and signed with the company perceived competitor All Elite Wrestling (AEW) in February 2021.
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Who is Paul Wight?
He suffered from acromegaly, a disease of the endocrine system dealing with excess growth hormones.
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Wight walks away from WWE to embark on a new career with AEWCredit: Instagram/@paulwight
By the time the athlete was twelve years old he was 6-foot-2 and weighed 220 pounds.
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Constructed around 1790, Taille de Noyer sits today on the campus of McCluer High School.
Today, the name William Wells Brown is mostly remembered by historians studying slavery in pre-Civil War America. But the memoir Brown published in 1847, which detailed his 17 years of bondage before escaping to freedom, was widely read in his day. Like Frederick Douglass (whose own memoir beat Brown s to publication by just two years), he also became a popular lecturer.
But only recently did researchers with the Florissant Valley Historical Society realize that some of the most harrowing incidents in Brown’s memoir took place in north St. Louis County. Brown was forced to work for a slave trader who worked a circuit including Missouri, and he details both the horror of facilitating the trade of other people like himself and the stories of enslaved people in the area whose paths intersected with him.
Calhoun woman leads Saturday s Engineering Day for girls
9th annual event is virtual this year
Scott Marion Hearst Newspapers
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EDWARDSVILLE “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day” returns to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Saturday with a new look.
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) at SIUE is hosting the ninth annual event for girls in grades 5-8. For the first time it will be in a free, virtual format.
“I didn’t know about the Society of Women Engineers, but I heard about ‘Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day’ when I visited SIUE my senior year in high school (at Brussels) and that’s what drew me to the organization,” SWE President Emma Schleeper said. “I have some younger sisters in fourth and fifth grade now and that’s what drew me to being part of the event.