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Dr. Patricia Wolff, a St. Louis pediatrician who left her private practice last year to devote her time to providing food and medicine to malnourished children in Haiti, is one of three individuals receiving honorary degrees at five commencement ceremonies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis May 12 and 13.
Among the more than 1,500 students graduating from the University of Missouri–St. Louis Saturday, four of them stand out for what they have in common. They’ve all earned high honors, entered college at the sophomore level and are 20 years old. (Since 1974, only 217 of more than 60,000 UMSL graduates were 20 years old or younger.) Not surprisingly, they’re highly focused individuals with grand plans.
With a $1 million gift to the University of Missouri–St. Louis, Chancellor Tom George announced the Monsanto Company will fund a community education center in the university’s new building in Grand Center. George also announced funding of the “transformative” redesign of a portion of Natural Bridge Road from Hanley to Lucas and Hunt roads that runs through the campus in North County.
The five women honored at this year’s Trailblazers Award ceremony March 7 fulfilled the requirement: Women whose extraordinary lives have contributed to the advancement of women. The annual event at the University of Missouri–St. Louis is one of the highlights of Women’s History Month.
Birgit Noll, associate teaching professor in the Pierre Laclede Honors College at UMSL, leads an information session about the honors college during UMSL Day on March 3. The event brought crowds of prospective students and their families to campus to gather information about the university. The picture, taken by campus photographer August Jennewein, is the latest to be featured at Eye on UMSL.
What started as a lesson of gratefulness for Dr. Sharon Dunski Vermont’s two young daughters, developed into a journey for her children to meet 30 people and learn their life stories.
Are you smarter than a student from the Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri–St. Louis? The college will give you a chance to find out Saturday (Feb. 25) at Honors Trivia Night 2012.
Commencement speakers often share words of wisdom with the new graduates that make up their audience. This line stood out at one of the fall commencement ceremonies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis: “There are people in this world who have flying monkeys and aren’t afraid to use them.” That was from a speech by [...]
Nearly 600 graduates of the University Missouri–St. Louis will receive a coveted college diploma this holiday season. Three commencement ceremonies will be held Dec. 17 in the Mark Twain Athletic & Fitness Center on the university’s North Campus. Graduates from the College of Education, College of Nursing, College of Fine Arts and Communication, School of [...]
Robert Bliss had a problem. He had already spent his allotted funds for the semester on an economics book. But for this historian, a book titled “Federalism and the Making of America” was a serious temptation. Bliss, dean of the Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, was contemplating dozens of books [...]
