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SIUE Difference Maker Jacks Gets Creative, Remains Dedicated to Students

2 years 6 months ago
EDWARDSVILLE – The pandemic has taken a marked toll on all individuals, presenting a variety of challenges as it has engendered salient adjustments in personal lives, learning environments and workplaces. Realizing and sharing in these challenges, numerous Southern Illinois University Edwardsville faculty, staff and students have gone above and beyond to support each other. In response to a social media call to highlight “SIUE Difference Makers,” nominations were abundant. Among those acknowledged for their positive impact was Tim Jacks, PhD, associate professor of computer management and information systems (CMIS) in the School of Business. “I'm incredibly fortunate to have a meaningful career where I'm able to make an impact on people at a personal level,” shared Jacks, who joined SIUE in 2012. “I am profoundly humbled by this Difference Maker recognition. The School of Business is full of faculty, staff, and administrators who make a difference

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Man shot at a ZX gas station in St. Louis City Monday morning

2 years 6 months ago
ST. LOUIS - A man was shot at a gas station in St. Louis City Monday morning. The shooting happened just before 6 a.m. in the 1600 block of Union Boulevard at the ZX Gas Station. The 31-year-old man was conscious and breathing when officers arrived at the scene. He was then taken to the [...]
Jason Maxwell

Welcome To The New Techdirt!

2 years 7 months ago
On Friday, we announced that we were beginning Techdirt’s migration to a new platform – and now that migration is complete! Though you’ll only see some changes on the public-facing site (especially in the comments section) we’re now running on an all-new WordPress back end. There is still a small handful of known bugs and […]
Leigh Beadon

Izumi Brings Traditional Japanese Sandos to St. Louis

2 years 7 months ago
As a child, Kurt Bellon remembers hearing the Japanese folklore of Momotaro, which translates to “peach boy.” The story highlights the adventures of a boy who is born from a peach. “[The story is] about making friends with different people by sharing the food and the gifts that you have.…
Cassidy Waigand

Missouri spent $25 million to aid hospitals. Contract marked by no-shows, high costs

2 years 7 months ago

SLSCO, a Texas-based construction company, made lofty promises to Missouri’s state health department over the summer that, if hired, it could immediately send hundreds of healthcare workers to aid struggling hospitals. As evidence, the company pointed to filling a request within 36 hours for 200 intensive care unit nurses and staff in California, and indicated […]

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Betsy Ladyzhets

Making the simple impossible: We don’t want to admit the real worker shortage problem | Opinion

2 years 7 months ago

A week ago, I was talking to an educator whose job it is to run training programs for students and adults in higher education. She told me that around a dozen different companies and groups were sponsoring training courses for things like nursing assistants, medical workers, electricians and truck driving. All of the courses were […]

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Darrell Ehrlick

Sunshine Monday with high temperatures in upper-50s

2 years 7 months ago
ST. LOUIS - Monday starts the week off nicely. It will be sunny and warm with high temperatures in the upper-50s. High-pressure overhead will keep the quiet weather around for most of the week. Temperatures will be well above normal, mainly in the 60s. So far, the weekend forecast is looking wet.
Linh Truong

A Justice for a Progressive Future

2 years 7 months ago
What really matters is how Ketanji Brown Jackson can help turn American law in a more progressive direction decades from now.
Erwin Chemerinsky