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For years, pianist Ken Kehner has appeared on a number of his colleagues’ recordings, and now, he is finally fronting his own CD, “From This Moment On.”
The focus of the 2012 race to select a Republican presidential nominee will soon shift to Missouri – again. The state held a nonbinding primary last month. The symbolic vote awarded no delegates, but the forthcoming caucuses will yield 52 delegates. The voter turnout, however, might be slim, according to David Robertson, Curators’ Teaching Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Most of the Missouri caucuses will be held this Saturday, St. Patrick’s Day.
Moral beliefs can, and likely do, play a crucial role in the development and operation of free market societies, according to a recent book by University of Missouri–St. Louis economics expert Dave C. Rose.
Barbara Harbach, professor of music at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, is the featured contemporary composer for the month of February for Indiana public radio station WFIU (103.7 FM). WFIU will feature music by Harbach throughout the month of February. Harbach is a composer, harpsichordist, and organist who completed her doctoral work at the Eastman [...]
Crime rates over the last 15 years have decreased in most metropolitan areas, University of Missouri–St. Louis criminologist Beth Huebner said. But the Associated Press reported St. Louis city and county have dropped to their lowest serious crime rates in four decades. Huebner, associate professor of criminology and criminal justice, said the city and county [...]
The use of deadly force by law enforcement has been a controversial issue for many years. Are officers trigger happy? Does the risk of an unstable suspect justify the actions? David Klinger, an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, has studied this subject for years. He also lived [...]
Six months after first hitting bookshelves, John Dalton’s novel “The Inverted Forest” continues to rack up accolades. The latest praise comes from the largest U.S. newspaper, The Wall Street Journal. WSJ Dear Book Lover advice columnist Cynthia Crossen compiled in Monday’s column her picks for best fiction written in 2011. “There is so much subjectivity [...]
All eyes were on Iowa Tuesday. And those that were still open were focused there early Wednesday morning too thanks to the tightest GOP presidential nomination race in Iowa caucus history. But why does the Hawkeye State matter so much? This question was posed to Dave Robertson, Curators’ Teaching Professor of Political Science at the [...]
For most of his long career, Richard D. Schwartz had his head in the stars. And thousands of people benefited from that devotion. When Schwartz arrived at the University of Missouri–St. Louis in 1975, he was the only astronomer. He built the astronomy program and initiated the bachelor’s degree in physics with an astrophysics option. [...]
If you’re looking for holiday gift ideas for the book lover in your life, Dwight Garner of The New York Times has some suggestions. And at the top of that list is “Alfred Kazin’s Journals” edited by Richard M. Cook, a noted Kazin biographer and chair of the Department of English at the University of [...]
