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 third floor rotunda at the Millennium Student Center.

The photograph was taken by UMSL photographer August Jennewein and is the latest to be featured in Eye on UMSL.