The University of Missouri–St. Louis makes a significant impact on the St. Louis area. Stories about the university, its scholars and their expertise are often covered by local and national news media.

Media Coverage highlights some of the top stories, but does not serve as a comprehensive listing. Notice a clip we missed? Email us at umsldaily@umsl.edu.

Edward Bennett, professor of optometry
Contact Lens Spectrum: optimizing GP performance in dry eye patients

Marvin Berkowitz, the Sanford N. McDonnell Professor of Education
“St. Louis on the Air” on St. Louis Public Radio: talking to children about a national tragedy

Alumnus Nicole Binion, MEd 2001 and 2008
The St. Louis American: profile of Binion

Alumna Bailey Bollinger, BSED 2014
Tonga Daily News: profile on Bollinger who has joined the Peace Corps to teach children in Tonga

Kathleen Sullivan Brown, associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies
St. Louis Public Radio: Chris Nicastro’s tenure as Missouri’s commissioner of education

Shatera Davis, a senior communication major
The St. Louis American: news item about her Washington internship

Tim Eby, St. Louis Public Radio general manager
NiemanLab: St. Louis Public Radio merger with St. Louis Beacon

Fred Fausz, associate professor of history
“St. Louis on the Air” on St. Louis Public Radio: new book by Fausz, “Historic St. Louis: 250 Years Exploring New Frontiers.”

Margaret Wolf Freivogel, St. Louis Public Radio editor
NiemanLab: St. Louis Public Radio merger with St. Louis Beacon

Chancellor Tom George
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: obligation of universities to play a role in issues that have potential to divide communities
Columbia Daily Tribune: George’s letters about Ferguson and appointment to CUMU vice president

Louis Gerteis, professor of history
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: former Missouri Gov. Sterling Price effort to take the state for the Confederates in the Civil War

Nicholas Husbye, assistant professor of educator preparation, innovation and research
Parents Magazine: helping young children learn words

Dan Isom, Endowed Professor of Police and the Community
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: police-involved shootings
St. Louis Jewish Light: police treatment of Michael Brown’s body following shooting
WYNC (93.9 FM): Ferguson forum
St. Louis Review: Isom’s new role as director of Missouri Department of Public Safety
Huffington Post: Ferguson forum

Terry Jones, Founders Professor of Political Science
St. Louis Public Radio: community’s perception of police
MSNBC: Missouri becoming slightly more conservative
Associated Press (via The Washington Times): separation from legislative and executive branches in Missouri
Kansas City (Mo.) Star: separation from legislative and executive branches in Missouri
KBIA (91.3 FM) (Columbia, Mo.): popularity of sales tax as a source of municipal revenue
Webster-Kirkwood (Mo.) Times: St. Louis County executive race
“Stay Tuned” on KETC (Channel 9): early childhood
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: St. Louis County executive race
St. Louis Public Radio: sparse competition for municipal elections

David Kimball, professor of political science
The Philadelphia Tribune: sentiment to recall the Ferguson mayor

David Klinger, professor of criminology and criminal justice
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: police-involved shootings
VOX: using a Taser on an armed suspect
KMOV (Channel 4): Ferguson policy on police using deadly force
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: reliability of police shooting statistics
Voice of OC (Santa Ana, Calif.): SWAT deployments
The Village Voice: risk of death by police force methods
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: review of deadly force used by police
“On Point with Tom Ashbrook” on WBUR (90.9 FM) in Boston: auditing America’s police force
St. Louis Public Radio: reasonable use of force

Marilu Knode, Aronson Professor in Modern and Contemporary Art History
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: effects of companies’ art collections on their employees

Janet Lauritsen, Curators’ Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Associated Press: statistics on curtailing domestic violence

Joseph Martinich, professor of operations management
KDHX (88.1 FM): environmental economics

Ray Mundy, director of the Center for Transportation Studies
Columbia (Missouri) Daily Tribune: launch of Uber in Columbia

Alumna Amy Narishkin, MEd 2006 and PhD education 2008
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: How we start the conversation about Ferguson with children

James Paine II, adjunct assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies
The St. Louis American: named Paine one of eight excellent educators
The St. Louis American: profile of Paine

Christina Pope, senior academic adviser for the Officer of International Studies and Programs
St. Louis Public Radio: demand for international students with STEM degrees

Public Policy Research Center
Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader: decline of statewide homelessness of veterans

David Robertson, Curators’ Teaching Professor of Political Science
Newsweek: race making a difference in political races
St. Louis Public Radio: reactions by Republicans and Democrats to Obama’s plan to confront the Islamic State
St. Louis Public Radio: U.S. citizenship initiative

J. Martin Rochester, Curators’ Teaching Professor of Political Science
St. Louis Jewish Light: ISIS
St. Louis Jewish Light: mainstream culture becoming more lewd and crude

Richard Rosenfeld, Curators’ Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: new police force in Flordell Hills, Mo.
KMOV: better training and diversity for area police departments
Bloomberg Businessweek: small municipalities relying on traffic fines to fund local government
AL.com: prison populations
The Pew Charitable Trusts: weighing imprisonment and crime
MintPress News: the growing U.S. prison poopulation
The New York Times: prison population

David Rose, professor of economics
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: jobs that are the best fit for unions

James Shuls, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies
KOMU (Channel 8) in Columbia, Missouri: changing academic standards in Missouri
The Kansas City Star: the language of Amendment 3 in Missouri

Alumna Germaine Stewart, MEd 1992
The St. Louis American: profile of Stewart

Todd Swanstrom, E. Desmond Lee Professor of Community Collaboration and Public Policy Administration
“One Degree of Separation” on Public Radio Exchange: what’s next in Ferguson

Ken Thomas, professor of political science
Reno (Nev.) Gazette-Journal: Nevada’s Tesla deal
Newswire: middle-class incomes

Cathy Vatterott, professor of educator preparation, innovation and research
The News-Press (Fort Myers, Fla.): whether homework is helpless or harmless