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Riverbender featured the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Department of Mass Communications event with local high schoolers this summer titled "Script to Screen: Producing a Short Film." The hands-on workshop was held June 15–18 and 22–25. The camp guided eight students through the full filmmaking process, from writing scripts and planning productions to camera work, audio recording, lighting, editing, and d...

WJBD Radio reported a Southern Illinois University Edwardsville forensic anthropologist played a key role in solving a decade-old missing persons case in Clinton County. The anthropologist used DNA evidence and dental records to positively identify skeletal remains found off Jolliff Bridge Road northwest of Centralia in 2021of a a Centralia man who had been missing since April 2014. 

The remains, a skull and more than 30 bones, ...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumna Carson Crow will screen her documentary about her late mother at the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase on July 26. The 25-minute film, which chronicles her mother Robin Cecilia Wheat's cancer diagnosis and lifelong devotion to Edwardsville, draws on interviews, family footage and historical records spanning generations. 

Crow, a video editor at the St. Louis-based company Splycehouse, began filming in August 2025 af...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's Solar Racing Team was featured in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ahead of the team's return to national competition for the first time in years. The article details the team's preparation for the American Solar Challenge, a multiday, 1,500-mile road race from Minneapolis to Amarillo, Texas, beginning July 25. 

The roughly 25-member student team hand-built a new solar car, named Orion, largely from scratch, including hand-solder...