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CAS Events Round Up

CAS Events Round Up

The College of Arts and Sciences has a busy schedule of events coming up between now and the end of the semester. Coming up this Monday and Tuesday is this year’s CAS Colloquium titled, “Thinking About the Book,” with a wide variety of lectures and events by SIUE faculty will look at the role of [...]

Navin presents tax exportation research

Navin presents tax exportation research

Economics and finance department chair John Navin recently presented research on tax exportation.
Tax exportation, according to Navin, is how state and local governments “design their tax system so that the taxes are paid by people who don’t live there.”
Navin presented his research earlier this month in Carbondale to the SIU Carbondale economics department, as well [...]

Professor T.R. Carr

Carr traveling to Latvia to research healthcare policy

Professor T.R. Carr
From September 10 until September 14, Economics Professor and MPA Program Director Dr. T.R. Carr will be at the University of Latvia and Riga Stradins University’s Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia. While in Riga, Carr will make presentations concerning decentralized healthcare policy and delivery, and he will additionally be meeting with [...]

From left, Dr. Rik Hafer and Dr. Ari Belasen. Photo courtesy of SIUE Marketing and Communications Department.

Hafer and Belasen publish on well-being and economic freedom

From left, Dr. Rik Hafer and Dr. Ari Belasen. Photo courtesy of SIUE Marketing and Communications Department.
Economics and Finance Research Professor Dr. Rik Hafer and Assistant Professor Dr. Ari Belasen have recently published an article in the journal Intelligence entitled “Well-being and economic freedom: Evidence from the States.” In their findings, Hafer and Belasen have [...]

T.R. Carr, professor of public administration and policy analysis.

PAPA and Econ departments team up on CBA

SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences Departments of Public Administration – Policy Analysis (PAPA) and Economics recently put the final touches on a cost benefit analysis that will hopefully increase employment opportunities, recreational opportunities, and decrease emissions in the region, according to T. R. Carr, professor of PAPA.
T.R. Carr, professor of public administration and policy [...]

Welcome back SIUE CAS to This Week In CAS – from the TWIC Editors

Welcome back SIUE CAS to This Week In CAS – from the TWIC Editors

As many of you know, This Week In CAS (TWIC) launched its first edition in October 2010.  TWIC is part of an effort by Aldemaro Romero, Dean of SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), and his staff, to diversify the way the CAS communicates the stories, adventures, and successes within the CAS community, as [...]

Members of the SIUE Choir provide a sample of Cuban music that they are mastering. The choir members sang as part of Romero's presentation of the Cuba Initiative.

CAS meeting brings faculty together, introduces new members

SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) faculty and staff are anything but negative about the outlook for the upcoming school year.
All members gathered at the 17th Annual CAS Fall Meeting on Friday to discuss the present and future state of the university and introduce new faculty and staff.
SIUE’s Chancellor Vaughn Vandegrift began the meeting [...]

The media outlets of SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences

The media outlets of SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences

No one can say that SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is not reaching out the the local community.  In the past year, under the direction of Aldemaro Romero, Dean of CAS, three new media outlets have been added to the arsenal, This Week In CAS (TWIC), Segue, and College Talk.
These new [...]

TWIC: A Window to the College of Arts and Sciences

TWIC: A Window to the College of Arts and Sciences

This Week In CAS (TWIC) officially launched on October 1, 2010 as a news hub for SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences. In the past 7 months, the editors of TWIC have been delighted to bring you the achievements of faculty and staff, the exciting events on  the University’s  vibrant campus and other information regarding the research [...]

Isaac Blankson, department chair and associate professor of speech communication, reached out to his CAS colleagues recommending that they participate in the U.S. Speaker program.

CAS faculty are experts in American policies, society, culture

Faculty members from SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences will have the opportunity to travel across the globe as experts who interact with foreign audiences to discuss American policies, society and culture.
Twelve CAS faculty members have been selected by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Information Programs to participate in the U.S. Speaker [...]

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