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Southeast Missouri State University announced Monday, March 13, the creation of a needs-based scholarship in memory of 1971 SEMO graduate and business leader Walt Wildman, who died Oct. 20 at age 77. Wildman, an Air Force veteran, held executive positions with Regional Commerce and Growth Association, Habitat for Humanity, I-66 Transamerica Highway Project, Empower America, Boy Scouts of America and Easter Seals Society...

Southeast Missouri State University has been listed as a top 10 military friendly school. Surveyed by the program Military Friendly, SEMO was ranked No. 4 in the category of Large Public schools. According to a news release from SEMO, the university moved up in rankings from last year's list. Southeast has been a Gold category school for the last two years...

A journalist spoke about the many turns of her career during this year's Michael Davis Lecture, hosted by Southeast Missouri State University. The address was given by Christina Carrega on Monday, March 6. SEMO has marked the death of former student Michael Davis every year since 1997 with the lecture. ...

Award-winning criminal justice reporter Christina Carrega speaks at the annual Michael Davis Lecture on Monday, March 6, on the Southeast Missouri State University campus. ...

The world premiere of the award-winning "The Winter Guard Play" by Avery Deutsch opened Wednesday, March 1, at Rust Flexible Theatre on the River Campus. The play won Southeast Missouri State University's Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival competition in 2022. ...

The dastardly supply chain strikes again! The Southeast Wind Symphony's plans for a concert, featuring hero and villain musical themes from the "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" films, were foiled when the music could not be delivered in time for the performance scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 28...

Southeast Missouri State University alumni Harold and Hermena Holigan will be honored as the 2023 Friends of the University at the President's Council Dinner on Friday, March 24, at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau. According to a news release, the Friends of the University award is the highest honor bestowed by SEMO. It recognizes those who support and who are closely associated with the mission, purposes and programs of the university...

For those who follow the popular adage "March to the beat of your own drummer", there will be plenty to choose from at the Percussion Ensemble Clinic on Thursday, Feb. 23, at the Southeast Missouri State University River Campus. Ensembles from Jackson, Perryville and Farmington, Missouri, high schools will attend and perform at the percussion clinic, which takes place from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. It is open to the public, and admission is free...

The Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance will present Winter Dance Collection next week at the Southeast Missouri State University River Campus. There will be four performances — 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, through Saturday, Feb. 18, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19...

Vivek Malek, the newly appointed state treasurer, has resigned his role on Southeast Missouri State University's Board of Governors. Malek, a 45-year old immigration lawyer from Wildwood, Missouri, was named to his current post as the state's chief financial officer Dec. 20 by Gov. Mike Parson...

The 23rd annual Clark Terry/Phi Mu Alpha Jazz Festival will return Friday, Feb. 3, and Saturday, Feb. 4, to Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus. Joseph Jefferson, director of Jazz Studies at SEMO, said 26 visiting middle and high school jazz bands from around the state will perform during the event. He said it will be a noncompetitive festival geared toward growth and development of the bands...

Three Cape Girardeau community members will be performing in "The Bat's Revenge", a comic opera, being performed Friday, Jan. 20, and Sunday, Jan. 22, at the Southeast Missouri State University River Campus. Robb Davis will be singing in the chorus, Matt Antill will be playing a character named Blind the Lawyer, and Seth Tanner will be playing the role of Freddie, the titular "Bat" seeking his revenge...

Dr. J. Moore, a hematologist/oncologist with SoutheastHEALTH, and state Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder on Wednesday. Jan. 18, at Moore's Missouri Senate confirmation hearing in Jefferson City. ...

Southeast Missouri State University experienced a campuswide water outage Monday, Jan. 9. According to an alert from SEMO, the outage, which prompted officials to close the campus, was caused by a ruptured valve that occurred during work on the campus utility tunnels project. ...

Southeast Missouri State University's Department of Music will open the comedic opera "The Bat's Revenge" by Johann Strauss on Friday, Jan. 20, in the Bedell Performance Hall at the River Campus, with a second performance Sunday, Jan. 22. Chris Goeke , professor of music at SEMO, said the production will be the collegiate premier of a new English translation and adaptation of the story by Pacific Opera Project director Josh Shaw...

To help students learn more about the value of a college degree, Southeast Missouri State University has begun hosting high school sophomores on campus to attend the university's College Bound events. These one-day events give the students a chance to explore a college campus, meet and interact with university students and discover what degree pathways will help lead them to the career they want...

Anyone who went to a Redhawk's football game this season may have noticed the Marching Band got new uniforms. Jim Daughters, director of bands at Southeast Missouri State University, said the previous uniforms were over 10 years old, made from wool and were falling apart...

Retiring Republican U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, who has represented Missouri in Congress for 26 years and in the Senate since 2011, will deliver remarks at the 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17, fall commencement at Southeast Missouri State University's Show Me Center...

Big Band Holiday Jukebox returns Friday, Dec. 2, and Saturday, Dec. 3, at Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus. This holiday tradition, performed in Bedell Performance Hall, is a collaboration of the students and faculty of Southeast Jazz Studio, the Department of Music and the Jeanine Larson Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance...

Cape Girardeau's Career and Technology Center is one of 51 state institutions receiving six-figure grants from the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), according to a Tuesday, Nov. 29, news release. DESE's announcement follows an Oct. 24 vote by the Cape Girardeau Board of Education to ask for $400,000 for CTC — a request DESE said it will fulfill in full...

The Southeast Missouri Symphony will be joined by two local choirs to perform the famous religious oratio "Messiah" by George Handel at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29, in Bedell Performance Hall on the River Campus of Southeast Missouri State University...

One future Southeast Missouri State University student may win a tuition-free 2023-2024 academic year at SEMO, university officials announced this week. "We have offered the free tuition giveaway for several years, and it is very popular," said Lenell Hahn, Southeast's director of admissions...

Dance numbers from Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker Suite" will be featured in this year's Fall for Dance performance beginning Thursday, Nov. 17, at Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus. Running through Sunday, Nov. 20, the annual event will also feature pieces choreographed by SEMO students as well as two professional guest artists...

Southeast Missouri State University's Board of Governors, formerly called Regents, took the following actions at a meeting Wednesday, Nov. 9. n Andrew Moore, MD, of SoutheastHEALTH, was installed as the newest member of the Board of Governors, for a term expiring Jan. 1, 2029. Moore succeeds Ed Gargas. Moore was sworn in by retired U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Limbaugh Sr...

A nearly $1.4 million federal grant aimed largely at boosting recruitment to health care careers and retraining industry professionals has been received by Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences. "This project — Rural Healthcare Training & Retraining Initiative — will result in an increased pipeline of workers, at all career stages, into the health care industry, help current health care professionals advance their careers and increase the quality of care within the rural Missouri and Missouri Ozark region," said Steven Langdon, Southeast's nursing school president, commenting on the grant from the U.S. ...

Southeast Missouri State University's annual Homecoming Parade — which will take place Saturday Oct. 29 — will restrict parking in certain areas of downtown Cape Girardeau prior to the event. Cpl. Ryan Droege, public information officer for the Cape Girardeau Police Department, said in a news release that parking in certain areas in and around the parade route will begin being restricted at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, four hours before the event is slated to start...

A St. Louis-based federal appeals court has issued an administrative stay temporarily blocking implementation of President Joe Biden's plan to cancel billions in student loan debt. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued the stay Friday, Oct. 21, while it considers a motion from Missouri and five other Republican-led states to block the loan cancellation program, meaning the Biden administration cannot implement the plan while the court deliberates a decision...

Hamner Hill, a philosophy professor at Southeast Missouri State University, will receive the Faculty Merit Award from Southeast's alumni association later this month. Hill, who has taught at SEMO for 36 years, will be honored Oct. 28, along with four Southeast alumni, at the annual Copper Dome Society and Merit Award dinner during Homecoming weekend...

Southeast Missouri State University's Aviation program is set to have a new face at the helm. Miranda Sullivan has been named the director of aviation operations at the university, according to a news release. The program director works with U.S. Aviation Group — the outfit that owns the planes — and focuses on recruitment efforts. Sullivan will pick up these duties while still serving as faculty for the program, the release said...

Wendell Snodgrass has been named vice president of university advancement and executive director of Southeast Missouri University Foundation, succeeding the retired Trudy Lee, the school announced Monday. Amanda Lincoln, interim SEMO advancement leader since Lee's Aug. 31 retirement, lauded Snodgrass's approach to university fundraising...

There will be a panel discussion of Ken Burns's documentary "The Central Park Five" from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 19 in Rose Theatre at Southeast Missouri State University. The Department of Mass Media will host the event, the second in its See Me Series. The 2012 documentary chronicles the story of five teenagers of color who were wrongfully imprisoned for a rape that occurred in Central Park in 1989...

More is better, according to Southeast Missouri State University officials, touting a gain in total enrollment for the fall 2022 semester. Debbie Below, vice president for enrollment management and student success at SEMO, presented census figures to the Board of Governors at its meeting last week that cited enrollment growth in key areas...

"Much Ado About Nothing," by William Shakespeare, will be the first production this fall hosted by the Southeast Missouri State University Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre & Dance. Opening at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, the play will run seven performances through Sunday at Bedell Performance Hall in the River Campus Cultural Arts Center at 518 S. Fountain St. in Cape Girardeau...

There is a Japanese philosophy — wabi-sabi — that sees the world as impermanent, imperfect and incomplete. Neal Joiner, an art student at Southeast Missouri State University, said he used this philosophy to inspire his creation of a series of small ceramic pots now on display at Catapult Creative House at 612 Broadway in Cape Girardeau...

Southeast Missouri State University and Union, Missouri-based East Central College announced Wednesday they have signed a memorandum of understanding regarding transfer students. The "Transfer Mentor Program" will help East Central students "plan a pathway to success, ease their transition to Southeast and complete a degree," according to a news release...

According a statement released by the school Tuesday, Southeast Missouri State University officials now say they will not raze the Himmelberger House at 603 N. Henderson St. in Cape Girardeau but will instead try to sell it. In May, SEMO said it would demolish the more than century-old building because it had fallen into disrepair and the assumed cost to bring the home back to code was more than the university was prepared to invest...

Ground was officially broken Tuesday for Southeast Missouri State University's Houck Multiuse Complex. Held on the Redhawks's playing field, school representatives, community leaders and university supporters used shovels painted SEMO red to dig into the ground for the new complex...

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed an open records request seeking correspondence between two journalism professors connected to the University of Missouri and the executive director of a fact-checking group. In a move that appears to be unprecedented in Missouri, Schmitt, a Republican running for U.S. Senate, filed a request in June asking for three years of emails sent and received by the professors while they worked at the Columbia Missourian...

St. Louis-based Mid-America Transplant has pledged $100,000 toward design and construction of a sculpture on the grounds of Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus and for other benefits to the school. The intent, according to a news release this week, is "to honor those in the Heartland who have donated lifesaving organs and tissue to patients in need."...

Catapult Creative House will be featuring an exhibit from New York City photographer Tonia Cowan starting at 5 p.m. Friday. Catapult, at 612 Broadway in Cape Girardeau and connected to Southeast Missouri State University, will display several photos Cowan took during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in New York City. The exhibit will be on display through the end of September. Cowan will speak at a reception at 4:30 p.m. Friday to explain and present some of the work...

"Have you seen all that shade over there? Forget the parks," Ameren project manager Jason Murphey said as he stood under a canopy of solar panels at the Show Me Center on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau. Joking with fellow Ameren project managers and engineers as they deliberated the exact calculation of how much shade the, roughly, 8 acres of new solar panels created, Murphey and the group eventually agreed that the amount happens to be more than 250,000 square feet — more than three football fields.. ...

Work to build a substantially renovated Houck Stadium on the Southeast Missouri State University campus will begin Sept. 1 after SEMO's Board of Governors on Tuesday unanimously OK'd a $15,978,100 bid from Fager-McGee of Murphysboro, Illinois, for Phase I of what is being termed "a new transformational multiuse complex."...

Students at the Cape Girardeau Career and Technology Center next fall will have the opportunity to begin their bachelor's degree in a health care specialty. Southeast Missouri State University has signed an agreement with CTC to collaborate on a degree program for respiratory therapy in 2023, according to a news release from the university...

With classes set to begin next week, Cape College Center reopened Monday with Mineral Area College leading the way. The MAC-branded center, located next door to Cape Girardeau Central High School, serves as a conduit for secondary and post-secondary students to receive general education courses and technical training, though at this time the center will only offer academic courses. ...

A Southeast Missouri State University student was the recipient of a national leadership award. Hannah Porter, a senior at SEMO, was named one of 33 winners of the 2022 G.I. Jobs Student Veteran Leadership Award for student veterans who make a positive difference in their community and school. Porter was nominated for the honor by Amanda Woods, an officer at the university's Office of Military and Veterans Services...

SoutheastHEALTH Foundation has awarded 27 health care scholarships totaling $32,500 in a recent event at Jackson Civic Center. In the last 60 years, the foundation has awarded more than $1.1 million to more than 1,300 health care workers. The current awardees' list includes 12 students attending SoutheastHEALTH College of Nursing and Health Sciences in Cape Girardeau four attending Southeast Missouri State University and two at Three Rivers College...

Saint Francis Foundation and Saint Francis Auxiliary have awarded 23 health care scholarships to area students in July. Names of recipients have been supplied by health care system staff. Stacy Meyer of Millersville was awarded the Steven C. Bjelich Executive Scholarship, which is a $5,000 award available to graduate students pursuing a master's degree in health care administration...

Over the two decades Trudy Lee has worked at Southeast Missouri State University, she's heard a lot of stories from a lot of people. And helping them tell those stories is one of the things she likes about her jobs as vice president of University Advancement and executive director of the Southeast Missouri University Foundation, from which she's set to retire Aug. 31...

Southeast Missouri State University professor Tamara Buck has been awarded 2022 Distinguished Adviser by the College Media Association. Buck is the co-adviser of the Arrow student newspaper and chairwoman of the Mass Media Department. "I am very honored to receive this award," Buck said in a news release. "I have been a member of the College Media Association since 2011 and have seen the caliber of winners of this award. So being selected is a true honor."...

Andrew Moore, medical director at Southeast Cancer Center, has been appointed by Gov. Mike Parson to Southeast Missouri State University's Board of Governors. Moore, an active hematologist/oncologist with SoutheastHEALTH, earned his undergraduate degree and went through medical school and his residency at University of Missouri at Kansas City, and finished his fellowship with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2013, according to his SoutheastHEALTH profile...

Cape Girardeau County, the 15th most populous county in Missouri with 82,113 people in July 2021, according to www.census.gov, nonetheless ranks ninth among Show Me State counties in terms of percentage of most college graduates. U.S. Census data show 31.9% of Cape Girardeau County residents have earned degrees, in no small measure because of the presence of Southeast Missouri State University's main campus...

State officials Wednesday agreed to temporarily allow a community college to offer various academic programs at Cape College Center, ending for now what had become a contentious disagreement with the local university. Members of the state Coordinating Board of Higher Education provisionally approved Mineral Area College's proposal to offer several dozen associate programs at the center for a five-year period. ...

The Southeast Missouri State University Board of Governors on Friday approved changes to curriculums and designs for the new Houck stadium construction, during its regular meeting Friday. ...

Michelle Queiser, communications specialist in Southeast Missouri State University's Marketing and Communications department, is leaving SEMO after nearly seven years on the job. Queiser, whose last day was Friday, plans to return to her native Colorado...

Evolving educational needs and a seven-figure annual cost prompted the landlord of Cape College Center to end the enabling agreement, according to a letter sent to the three institutions of higher learning affiliated with the center. Neil Glass, superintendent of Cape Girardeau School District, which houses the center on its property adjacent to the district's high school, informed leaders of the schools — Southeast Missouri State University, Three Rivers College and Mineral Area College — in late December.. ...

A person may never know the impact of spoken words upon another, whether they be for good or ill. Former Cape Girardeau Mayor Jay Knudtson found out the former through Facebook Messenger from a soon-to-graduate Southeast Missouri State University student, Ashlei East-Sterling...

Jim Dufek will leave behind a notable legacy when he retires from Southeast Missouri State University later this year. Dufek — TV/film professor, production coordinator, Rose Theatre facilities coordinator and ESPN+ operations manager in SEMO's Mass Media Department — is retiring in August after spending 39 years with the university...

The Fault Line Film Festival is back this year and will be held in-person for the first time in two years because of the pandemic. The event is a film festival at which students from Southeast Missouri State University and other schools can submit original films of 30 minutes or less...

This story is updated. State Rep. Kevin Windham Jr. wants Southeast Missouri State University — his alma mater — to receive more state budget funding. House lawmakers debated fiscal year 2023's operating budget this week in Jefferson City. The fiscal year referred to runs from July 1 through June 30, 2023...

Steve Robinson, former Chick-fil-A chief marketing officer, will keynote Thursday's SEMO Synergies Day in the University Center Ballroom on Southeast Missouri State University's Cape Girardeau campus. The event caps nearly a full week of related activities during SEMO Synergies Week...

For the second year in a row, Southeast Missouri State University has been honored with a "Military Friendly" distinction. Of all the schools surveyed by militaryfriendly.com, less than 37% were awarded the Military Friendly designation and less than 16% received the highest "Gold" level distinction, which Southeast also received again this year...

Southeast Missouri State University president Carlos Vargas was asked to comment about the school's enrollment during remarks last week to the Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce. According to a flyer the college distributed to First Friday Coffee attendees at Century Casino, 11,523 degree-seeking students attended SEMO in pre-pandemic fiscal year 2019-2020. ...

Getting a famous actor to visit Cape Girardeau to discuss a film he made 50 years ago was an easier process than being able to show the film itself. "I had to put into practice what I teach students to do," Karie Hollerbach said, laughing, when asked how she got a star Hollywood actor to come. Hollerbach, a professor of mass media at Southeast Missouri State University ultimately sealed Dirk Benedict's appearance for April 6, following a screening Wednesday of "Georgia, Georgia."...

Southeast Missouri State University is gearing up for its sesquicentennial next year with a yearlong series of events set to launch on the institution's 150th birthday, March 22, 2023. Details are incomplete at present but SEMO's university communications office said Thursday the celebratory year will conclude with the anticipated total solar eclipse April 8, 2024, when Cape Girardeau will be in the center of totality...

Linda Lattin Burns, professor emerita of English at Southeast Missouri State University, where she taught 33 years until her 2001 retirement, has been named 2022 Friend of the University -- the highest honor bestowed by the school's foundation and first awarded in 1983...

Using the tools of social media, electronic mail, cellphones and landlines, Southeast Missouri State University will attempt to raise $30,000 during its annual SEMO Giving Day by the end of business today. The university, founded in 1873 in Cape Girardeau as Southeast Normal School and Teachers' College, has grown into more than 150 academic programs in five colleges...

Charles D. McAllister, Ph.D., who has taught at Southeast Missouri State University for 16 years as an authority on quantitative business methods, will spend his upcoming sabbatical year teaching as a "Distinguished Visiting Professor" at U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs, Colorado -- a posting beginning in July...

The renovations of Houck Field have hit a road block. On Friday, Southeast Missouri State University president Carlos Vargas updated the Board of Governors on the renovation of Houck Stadium's south grandstand. Destruction began in early December and was completed by the first week of January...

In an email from the president's office Wednesday, Southeast Missouri State University president Carlos Vargas stated the university will no longer be requiring face coverings on campus, effective immediately. Face coverings are still required in specific campus locations, including shuttles, transit services and health-related spaces such as the Autism Center and Campus Health Clinic...

The timeless fairy tale of Cinderella will be told again this week. The performers who make up the cast of "Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella," which will run from Wednesday through Sunday, are students in Southeast Missouri State University's Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance, with the production being directed by Kenny Stilson, chairman of Dobbins Conservatory...

Ann Hayes, who worked in communications for Southeast Missouri State University for 29 years and served under five SEMO presidents before her 2020 retirement, is being awarded the 2022 Silver Medal by the Cape Girardeau affiliate of American Advertising Federation...

Southeast Missouri State University's aviation program began its second semester Jan. 18, after completing what school officials consider a successful first semester in the fall of last year. The 120 hour, four-year bachelor of science program provides students with hands-on experience in aviation and the students begin their education in the air on their first day...

Kathy Harper, director of university communications for Southeast Missouri State University since September 2020, will leave SEMO on Feb. 8. Harper, who came to Southeast from the University of Wisconsin, will become assistant vice provost for marketing, communication and partnerships at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, the state capital of the Tarheel State...

Southeast Missouri State University's fall 2021 commencement ceremonies will be Saturday at the Show Me Center. The ceremony for graduates of Arts and Media, Business and Computing, Humanities and Social Sciences will begin at 10 a.m., while the ceremony for graduates of Education, Health and Human Studies and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math will begin at 2 p.m...

Several years in the making, the path to a renovated football stadium on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University cleared a bit Wednesday. Workers began demolishing the south grandstand at Houck Field as part of the first phase of a multiphase project to revamp the 91-year-old structure...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri high school students will have to score a little higher on the ACT exam in the future to receive the state's main merit-based college scholarship. The state higher education department said Wednesday the ACT score needed to receive the maximum $3,000 from the Bright Flight scholarship will increase from 31 to 32 for high school students graduating in 2023. That means the change will kick in for this year's junior class...

Trae Mitten, formerly associate dean of students for student advocacy and support at Southeast Missouri State University, has been named the new dean of students. Mitten stepped into the role Wednesday, which includes "contributing to the mission and vision of Southeast by serving as the primary advocate for students and their well-being," as well as supervising the Center for Behavioral Health and Accessibility, the Office of Student Conduct and the LGBTQ Resource Center, according to a university news release.. ...

Students in Southeast Missouri State University Department of Music and the Jeanine Larson Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance perform during the Big Band Christmas Jukebox concert Saturday in Bedell Performance Hall on SEMO's River Campus in Cape Girardeau. ...

Southeast Missouri State University president Carlos Vargas said Friday the school has 10,000 students in the soon-to-be-completed Fall 2021 semester, representing a 1.5% decrease in enrollment. Vargas, who has led the school since 2015, said international student enrollment is up 43%, graduate student enrollment is up 19% and minority and online-only enrollment are up 3% each...

Tamara Zellars Buck, professor and chairwoman of the Department of Mass Media at Southeast Missouri State University, was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award on Friday for her service to the Cape Girardeau community in a surprise award ceremony at the university...

Students in Southeast Missouri State University's Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance showcased a variety of techniques in the Fall for Dance performance over the weekend. The annual performance was held in the Bedell Performance Hall on the River Campus from Thursday through Sunday and featured original choreography by SEMO faculty, students and guest artists, providing a range of dance for the audience...

Alumni and current students in Southeast Missouri State University's Historic Preservation program got together to celebrate the program's 40th anniversary this weekend. To mark this year's milestone, a variety of events were held throughout the weekend recognizing the program's accomplishments, culminating in the Historic Preservation Association's annual banquet Saturday evening in the Wehking Alumni Center with the presentation of annual awards: the Spirit Award and the Dr. Mattingly Award...

Southeast Missouri State University joined almost 500 sites across the country to celebrate the launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope this past week. Southeast students and members of the community were invited to salute Space Week Nov. 8 through Saturday with astronomy events throughout Cape Girardeau...

Southeast Missouri State University announced the keynote speaker for the university's annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Dinner. Judge Brian S. Miller of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, will present this year's address at the dinner, which will be held at 6 p.m. Jan. 26 at the Show Me Center...

Southeast Missouri State University is joining forces with Ameren Missouri to bring clean energy and jobs to the region with the installation of new solar arrays on SEMO's main campus. Southeast Missouri Neighborhood Solar Center will be the first of its kind in the region, consisting of solar canopies on the north and south parking lots of the Show Me Center, 1333 N. Sprigg St. in Cape Girardeau...

Southeast Missouri State University president Carlos Vargas announced Friday the campus community exceeded its 70% COVID-19 vaccination goal. As a result, the university will be closed the week of Thanksgiving, Vargas said, as promised in an Aug. 26 email announcing The Great SEMO Vaccine Give Away Get Away incentive program...

Street signs near Southeast Missouri State University will take on a new look this week. SEMO Athletics partnered with the City of Cape Girardeau to replace the city's green signs near the university's main and River campuses with new white signs featuring black lettering and the university's Redhawks mascot...

Southeast Missouri University Foundation and Southeast Missouri State University Alumni Association will kick off Homecoming weekend with the annual Copper Dome Society and Alumni Awards Dinner. The university will honor members of the Copper Dome Society and the 2020 and 2021 Alumni Awards recipients and Friends of the University at the dinner Oct. 29 at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau...

Southeast Missouri State University is rolling back face-covering requirements on campus beginning today. In a letter to the campus community Thursday, Southeast president Carlos Vargas announced the university will be modifying the requirement and plans to finish the semester with this change in place...

Southeast Missouri State University hospitality management student Angel Carrasquillo has a busy life these days. Carrasquillo, a native of Puerto Rico, works 30 to 35 hours a week at Sedona Bistro, 1812 Carondelet Drive in Cape Girardeau. He also spends an estimated 20 hours weekly at his catering business, Sushi by Angel, and still manages to make it to his morning classes. Carrasquillo said his love for sushi and the drive for his degree keep him going...

Southeast Missouri State University is aiming toward a 70% proof-of-vaccination response by Nov. 1 — less than three weeks away — with the promise of an extended Thanksgiving break if the target is achieved. According to the most recent information provided by SEMO, the rate is 61.4%...

Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus will host "Guys and Dolls" beginning Wednesday. Presented by Top of the Marq, performances will be in Bedell Performance Hall and will begin at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, with a 2 p.m. performance planned Sunday...

U.S. News & World Report has recognized Southeast Missouri State University in multiple categories in its 2022 rankings of the nation's best colleges released earlier this month. Southeast was recognized in five "overall university" categories and four "program-specific" areas. The school was compared to other colleges and universities in a 12-state Midwest region...

Southeast Missouri State University students will see an increase in their bank accounts Wednesday, as the university begins distributing $10.4 million in coronavirus relief funds. Southeast received the money in Higher Education Emergency Relief (HEERF) III funds from the American Rescue Plan (ARP) to distribute directly to students, according to a university news release...

In a late afternoon email Wednesday to the Southeast Missouri State University campus, SEMO president Carlos Vargas announced the current mask mandate will be continued until at least Oct. 15. The original Aug. 16 order, which applied "with some exceptions" in all university buildings regardless of a person's vaccination status, was to have expired today...

While not explicitly saying they will require COVID-19 vaccinations for students and staff on their campuses, the presidents of five community colleges in Southern Illinois say they are "unified" in their "adherence to state and federal guidance and orders regarding vaccination and testing."...

After its hiatus from live performances at games, Southeast Missouri State University's marching band, The Golden Eagles, is back and bigger than ever. The enthusiasm runs high as the largest band SEMO has ever had enters into a new year with a new instructor...

Dr. Candice Snider graduated from Des Moines University College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery in Des Moines, Iowa, on May 28. She also received a master's degree in biomedical science from Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. She is doing her three-year residency for foot and ankle surgeon at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York and lives in Manhattan, New York...

Students in Southeast Missouri State University's new aviation program will be taking to the sky in style this semester. SEMO unveiled three new Redhawk branded Cessna 172 airplanes Saturday at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. Students in the new program, university and airport officials, legislators and guests were able to view the planes for the first time...

Legend goes that back in the day, Southeast Missouri State University football players ran up and down a steep hill on campus as training to get ready for a big game — legs aching, palms sweaty and hearts beating rapidly. With all that climbing, according to local lore, players said they felt like they were going to have a heart attack...