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  Graduate students at Southern Illinois University shared their research with brevity and style during the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at the Carbondale campus.
      
     
              
  
    Southern Illinois University officially among top research schools in U.S.
  SIU has officially entered the ranks of the top research universities in the nation: It has been designated Research 1, or R1, in the Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education.
      
     
              
  
    SIU Medicine seeks participants for schizophrenia clinical trial study
  A new clinical trial at SIU School of Medicine is testing a treatment that could help people who suffer from schizophrenia.
      
     
              
  
    Clinical research leader Barbara Lokaitis wins 2024 Toth Award
  SIU School of Medicine’s Research Policy Committee has selected Barbara Lokaitis for the 2024 Frank J. Toth Award, the highest recognition for its research staff.
      
     
              
  
    Trainees gain experience, garner awards at 2024 Research Symposia
  A two-day symposium offered trainees from across the School of Medicine system an opportunity to gain experience in making formal presentations of their research and clinical discoveries.
      
     
              
  
    Group wins international sim training contest
  SIU surgeon Melanie Barnard, MD, was part of an international team of clinicians who won the $700,000 grand prize to design low-cost simulation surgical training in the Global Surgical Training Challenge.
      
     
              
  
    SIU Medicine recruiting patients for high blood pressure study
  SIU Medicine researchers are enrolling patients in a study to see if ultrasound energy can be used to improve blood pressure in people with hypertension.
      
     
              
  
    $1.86M grant helps SIU scientist broaden brain research into autism
  Ben Richardson, Ph.D. , has spent his career studying functions and circuits in the brain and what causes them to behave abnormally, especially within an area called the cerebellum. His work has
      
     
              
  
    Amid national 'opioid epidemic' methamphetamine often overlooked
  A new study shows methamphetamine remains a stubbornly prevalent illicit substance in large swaths of rural America. Findings recently published in JAMA Network Open indicate that methamphetamine is
      
    