When her mother proposed a program that included Saturday morning classes, Tobi Williams reacted like many high school sophomores.
When Vicki Sauter was 18 years old, her father fell victim to an attempted armed robbery on the street outside her family’s Chicago-area home. He fought back but during the struggle was shot once in the head and later died from the injury. Neighbors witnessed the attack, but did nothing. At the funeral, one neighbor [...]
Jean M.K. Miller has been named dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Miller, who will begin the position July 1, currently serves as associate dean of administrative affairs in the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas in Denton. She oversees [...]
Described by fellow faculty members as a “teacher’s teacher,” Ann Steffen is a passionate and committed educator and respected researcher. In honor of her work, the associate professor of psychology at the University of Missouri–St. Louis was presented the 2013 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education. “I love being part of the process of discovery for students as they gain skills [...]
The daily commute from his home in north St. Louis to his high school in Kirkwood, Mo., was an opportunity for T. Christopher Peoples to contemplate. The student’s mind often juxtaposed the two communities. “Kirkwood was nice and beautiful, kind of like Pleasantville,” he says. “But no one was really fixing up places in the [...]
Jessica Lake has spent the past seven years at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. The 25-year-old graduate student says UMSL feels like home and for good reason.
Junior Joe Atkisson (pictured), of the University of Missouri–St. Louis men’s golf team, claimed medalist honors at the 2013 GLVC Championship on Tuesday, winning a playoff hole against Rockhurst University’s (Kansas City, Mo.) Tanner Buleski at the Otter Creek Country Club in Columbus, Ind.
Sophomore Tim McLarty of the University of Missouri–St. Louis men’s tennis team has been selected to the All-Great Lakes Valley Conference team, as announced tonight by the league.
Junior Louisa Werner and freshman Renee Verboven of the University of Missouri–St. Louis women’s tennis team have been selected to the all-Great Lakes Valley Conference team, as announced tonight by the league.
Optometry awards line the hallway leading to Dr. Karen Rosen’s office. She was one of Vision Monday magazine’s 50 most influential women in optical, the 2006 St. Louis Optometrist of the Year and one of the St. Louis Business Journal’s most influential business women.
