SE Illinois News

Underdog team upsets collegiate speech contest

By Robert Hadley | Feb 19, 2017

A community college speech team has bested competitors from 10 universities to take top honors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Feb. 4 forensic contest.

Whiz kids compete for place in WYSE finals

By Robert Hadley | Feb 16, 2017

Dozens of Illinois’ best and brightest high school students turned out Thursday, Feb. 2, to show their moxie in the Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) contest.

New scholarship honors European immigrant’s legacy

By Robert Hadley | Feb 13, 2017

To memorialize physics professor Frank Schneider, who passed away last November, Schneider’s wife and children have established a scholarship in his name at Southeastern Illinois College.