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The majority of SIUE's academic buildings are located in the Core Campus, inside Circle Drive on the south side of the 77 acres (31.2 ha) Cougar Lake. Many of the academic buildings were constructed during the 1960s, shortly after the land for the campus was purchased, with major additions during the 1970s.
The Sam M. Vadalabene Center is a multi-purpose sports and recreation building on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) that features an arena (known as "First Community Arena" for sponsorship reasons) with a seating capacity of just over 4,000.
The Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine (SIU-SDM or SDM) is a part of SIUE and is located in Alton on the campus of the former Shurtleff College. The school opened in 1972 and enrolls about 200 dental students. The school also operates the East St. Louis Dental Clinic at SIUE's East St. Louis Center. [10]
The trails are mostly asphalt. Maps of the trails, which connect to neighborhoods, schools, business districts, SIUE, parks, and more, are available on kiosks throughout the trail system or online at www.mcttrails.org. Watershed Nature Center: 46-acre (190,000 m 2) wildlife preserve. The interpretive center displays native Illinois plants and ...
Lovejoy Library at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville opened in 1965 and is located on the Stratton Quadrangle of the SIUE campus. The library was named for Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American Presbyterian minister, journalist and newspaper editor who, in 1837, was murdered by a mob in nearby Alton for his abolitionist views.
Prior to the development of the SIU Edwardsville campus, six "Divisions of Academic Programs" were established for the Residential Centers in Alton and East St. Louis. When the move was mae to the new campus in 1965, these "Divisions" became the Schools of Business, Education, Fine Arts, Humanities, Science and Technology, and Social Sciences. [3]
Faner Hall is 914 feet long and four stories high. It acts as a "wall" between the old and new sections of campus. [4] [5] On March 6, 1972, a collapse at the construction site killed university freshman Michael G. Hayes. [6] Since its completion in 1974, Faner Hall has been the subject of many rumors on campus. [7]
[2] [3] In 1998, the university trustees named the stadium to honor Ralph Korte, the founder of The Korte Company of Highland, an SIUE alumnus and strong advocate of the school. [ 4 ] The soccer playing surface was named, on November 1, 1986, in honor of Bob Guelker , the coach who inaugurated SIUE's men's soccer program and led it to the NCAA ...