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CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS, — Seventy-five medical students began their medical training last week at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Carbondale. The students participated in a White Coat Ceremony on Friday, August 10, in Shryock Auditorium. (Editor’s note: See list below for a list of students from your hometown.) SIU Medicine Dean and Provost Jerry Kruse, MD, MSPH, and Associate Dean for Student Affairs & Admissions Erik Constance, MD, welcomed the students. Wendi Wills El-Amin, MD, associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion, and Matthew Winkleman, MD, Class of 2002 and

CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS – Seventy-six medical students from the Class of 2023 have begun their academic medical training at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Carbondale. The students participated in a White Coat Ceremony on Friday, August 16, in Shryock Auditorium. (Editor’s note: See list below for a list of students from your hometown.) SIU Medicine Dean and Provost Jerry Kruse, MD, MSPH, and Associate Dean for Student Affairs & Admissions Erik Constance, MD, welcomed the students. Wendi El-Amin, MD, associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion, and Elizabeth Cavanagh, MD

The Lincoln Scholars Program at SIU School of Medicine graduated its charter class of medical students on May 18. The program was initiated in 2019 to create a pipeline to train physicians with a focus on rural medical care. Learn more about the first class.

Andrzej Bartke, PhD, is a distinguished scholar and research professor in the departments of Internal Medicine, Physiology, and Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology at SIU School of Medicine.

Much of Shipra Somani’s life has been guided by the personal adage she quotes often: “If someone has good health and a good mind, they have a moral obligation to give back to people who are less fortunate.” Mrs. Somani has embodied these words by dedicating her work to being an agent of change, striving for advancements in health care while aiding and advocating for those in vulnerable situations. She accomplished this not only through her exceptional gifts as a social worker, but also through her generosity as a donor. A native of India, Mrs. Somani began her education in social work at the

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling Thursday that struck down college affirmative action programs. The Court issued rulings in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, twin cases that sought the prohibition of limited consideration of an applicant’s race or ethnic background in the higher education admissions process. In the decision, the court ruled that both programs violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. The Court effectively overturned previous rulings in 1978 and 2003 that upheld a

A national organization promoting economic opportunity has ranked Southern Illinois University Carbondale among its top 100 in the country for technology transfer. The Milken Institute’s Center for Jobs and Human Capital placed SIU at No. 76 out of 225 in the nation in its Technology Transfer and Commercialization Index of Universities & Research Institutions ranking, which it released in April. Robert Patino, director of the SIU Office of Technology Transfer, said the report confirmed that the university’s efforts in those areas compare favorably with other top universities with far more