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This year is one of reflection and aspiration for the University of Missouri–St. Louis. The UMSL community will look back and ahead as it celebrates the university’s 50th anniversary. And that’s exactly what the St. Louis Beacon did with its comprehensive article published Jan. 31.
The number of children abused and neglected in Missouri each year remains high, but has dropped more than 20 percent since 2006. State officials attribute the decline to the many social service agencies and organizations providing annual services throughout the state.
In 2006, Derek Amato suffered a head injury after diving into a shallow pool and hitting his head. He awoke a musical genius, able to play classical piano.
Got a case of the Mondays? Suffer no more. A look at the Middle East art scene, poetry of social protest and shared stories of resourceful Ozark families are some of the many cultural events that make Monday Noon Series a cure for the blues.
“We shall not cease from exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.” Those words by poet T.S. Eliot ring true for Keith Womer, dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Where he started is just where he wants to be. Womer will step down as dean and return to the classroom as a professor of logistics and supply chain management beginning July 1.
The University of Missouri–St. Louis will kick off its Jubilee, a yearlong celebration of UMSL’s 50th anniversary, with a spectacular evening of entertainment and fun on Feb. 1. UMSL Chancellor Tom George talked about the Jubilee, reflected on the university’s growth over a half century and discussed challenges in higher education last week on “St. Louis on the Air,” a program on St. Louis Public Radio | 90.7 KWMU.
1798 was a heroic and tragic year in Irish history. An uprising against British rule lasted from May to September that year.
The University of Missouri–St. Louis makes a significant impact on the St. Louis area. Stories about the university, its scholars and their expertise are often covered by local and national news media.
In an effort to help students, faculty and staff kick their tobacco habits and maintain a tobacco-free campus, the...
Politicians and government officials haves spent years discussing the economic recovery and the upward swing of the market. But is it really on the mend?
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Joseph Hendricks has recently found himself performing in one of the most renowned concert halls in the United States, Powell Symphony Hall, home to the St. Louis Symphony.
The Arianna String Quartet will welcome award-winning violist Elias Goldstein Feb. 6 to the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Inessa Lokshin was taken by the 10 and 11-year-old girls seated at a table at Girls, Inc. St. Louis. So much so that she wondered how she could return.
University of Missouri–St. Louis custodian Willie Fleming Jr. rolls a table out of a storage room that’s adjacent to the Summit Lounge in the J.C. Penney Building/Conference Center on Jan. 17. He was preparing for Winter Conference: Creativity & Collaboration at the Core, which was held Jan. 19.
Noted labor economist, author and political commentator Julianne Malveaux speaks Jan. 21 in the Anheuser-Busch...
In case you missed a chance last month to try out the newest campus coffee bar at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, here’s a good reason to check it out now.
A light snowfall welcomes University of Missouri–St. Louis students back to campus Jan. 22, the first day of classes for the spring semester.
The sixth annual African American Nursing History Conference, sponsored by the College of Nursing at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, will explore health care disparities, health care equity and health care promotion through awareness and action by providing free health care screenings to the community.
University of Missouri–St. Louis Nonprofit Management & Leadership Program, in partnership with Metropolitan Volunteer Management Association, introduces the St. Louis area’s first Chancellor’s Certificate in Volunteer Management. The first workshop within the program is on March 22, 2013, and additional courses are in June and September of this year.
UMSL Events contains information about events that will occur in the seven days following publication (Saturday-Friday). It contains information compiled from the UMSL Campus Calendar. No submissions are accepted, and since the calendar is self-populated, University Marketing and Communications is not responsible for the content that appears here or its accuracy. If you would like to receive UMSL Events via e-mail, you can subscribe to UMSL Daily or UMSL Daily Events.
Teenagers employed by north St. Louis-based bakery Angel Baked Cookies are both the subjects and photographers for a new University of Missouri–St. Louis exhibit. The set of photos captures the creativity, camaraderie and community permeating the teen collective’s cookie-making process. The exhibit is the latest in the Public Policy Research Center Photography Project series.
The Moulin Rouge has been the inspiration for books, paintings, musicals, films – and now, ballet. Dance St. Louis will bring Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the oldest continuously running ballet company in North America, to St. Louis for the first time to perform “Moulin Rouge – The Ballet” at 8 p.m. Jan. 25 and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Jan. 26 at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Erin Schulte believes the secret to a successful learning environment is the right mix of academic, emotional and physical stimulation. Schulte, an educational psychology doctoral student at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, is a guidance counselor at Parkway North High School in west St. Louis County.
The University of Missouri–St. Louis makes a significant impact on the St. Louis area. Stories about the university, its scholars and their expertise are often covered by local and national news media.
Women make up the majority of the population, but represent less than 25 percent of the Missouri Legislature, according to the Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. In fact, the institute points out that women are minority participants at all levels of public policy leadership.
The photograph was taken by UMSL photographer August Jennewein and is the latest to be featured in Eye on UMSL.
The Office of International Studies and Programs at the University of Missouri–St. Louis has partnered with World Trade Center St. Louis to offer the first online national Chancellor’s Certificate in International Trade.
An international business leader who recently joined a prominent Washington, D.C., think tank as a global trade scholar will discuss U.S. policy in Asia Jan. 31 at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
A native of Ireland, poet Eamonn Wall has called the U.S. home for more than 30 years. Since 2000, he’s lived in Webster Groves, Mo., and the neighborhood has played a significant role in his writing. This transatlantic identity has shaped his writing and made him one of the most prominent contemporary voices of the Irish-American experience.
In her first St. Louis exhibition, artist Peregrine Honig will display a series of mixed media drawings she created during an artist’s residency in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
UMSL Events contains information about events that will occur in the seven days following publication (Saturday-Friday). It contains information compiled from the UMSL Campus Calendar. No submissions are accepted, and since the calendar is self-populated, University Marketing and Communications is not responsible for the content that appears here or its accuracy. If you would like to receive UMSL Events via e-mail, you can subscribe to UMSL Daily or UMSL Daily Events.
The Missouri legislature reconvened Wednesday after its holiday break. St. Louis Public Radio | 90.7 KWMU assembled its political roundtable, including Terry Jones, chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, to discuss the issues that will be at the forefront of the first 2013 session.
Coming off its best season since 2004, the University of Missouri–St. Louis baseball team is hoping for an encore in 2013. They’re being picked to do just that, according to the NCAA Division II Collegiate Baseball Newspaper’s Preseason Poll that ranked the UMSL Tritons No. 30 nationally.
Patrick Green, mayor of Normandy, Mo., has worked together with the University of Missouri–St. Louis on a number of community improvement projects. For his efforts, he was recognized with the Presidential Citation Award for Outstanding Service to UMSL on Nov. 30 at the Alliance Awards Dinner in Columbia, Mo.
The University of Missouri–St. Louis makes a significant impact on the St. Louis area. Stories about the university, its scholars and their expertise are often covered by local and national news media.
Julianne Malveaux, the noted labor economist, author and political commentator, believes that most everything comes down to economics. And at this time of year, she reminds people of Martin Luther King’s other message in his “I Have a Dream” speech.
Claire Boylan, a senior majoring in history at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, makes notes while reading the book “Lion of the Valley: St. Louis, Missouri, 1764-1980.” The assigned reading was part of History of St. Louis, a course offered through the university’s Winter Intersession program. Boylan, of O’Fallon, Mo., was studying Jan. 8 in the second floor rotunda at the Millennium Student Center.
Lawmakers, government officials and the news media have discussed gun ownership policy in the wake of the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn.
Finding the connection between the economy and environment has been a topic of discussion among economists and enviromentalists for years.
Inventing something new in the land of opportunity is the American dream, but only if you’re the first to patent it.
Flanked by dozens of state and local law enforcement officials and University of Missouri–St. Louis Chancellor Tom George, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon urged action by the General Assembly to reinstate an exemption to the Missouri Sunshine Law protecting public safety during a press conference Friday in the Millennium Student Center at UMSL.
UMSL Events contains information about events that will occur in the seven days following publication (Saturday-Friday). It contains information compiled from the UMSL Campus Calendar. No submissions are accepted, and since the calendar is self-populated, University Marketing and Communications is not responsible for the content that appears here or its accuracy. If you would like to receive UMSL Events via e-mail, you can subscribe to UMSL Daily or UMSL Daily Events.
Douglas Harms and Elizabeth Kurila took different career paths after each earned an MPPA from the University of Missouri–St. Louis. But they maintained close ties to the Public Policy Administration program at UMSL. Now they have something else in common: they’re the first recipients of the PPA Distinguished Alumni Award.
Quilts aren’t just quaint bedding that grandmothers make. A whole new generation has adopted the art form. A series of handmade quilts will be the focus of the next exhibit in Gallery Visio at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Crime in New York has been on the decline for two decades. Law enforcement officials attribute the decrease to the police department’s aggressive use of a program called “Stop, Question and Frisk.”
The photograph was taken by UMSL photographer August Jennewein and is the latest to be featured in Eye on UMSL.
