A crane, supervised by SystemAire Inc., lifts the outdated, original wooden cooling tower from the roof of the Research Building. It will be replaced with a stainless steel version. The picture, taken by campus photographer August Jennewein, is the latest to be featured at Eye on UMSL.

Jalene LaMontagne, colleagues win Robert P. McIntosh Award from the Vegetation Section of the Ecological Society of America for research on community synchrony in seed production
Their study found that synchrony among species is correlated with trait similarity as well as climate.