Media Coverage: June 2015

by | Jul 3, 2015

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.

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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.

Lynn Beckwith, the E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professor of Urban Education
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Sumner High School in St. Louis

Ed Bennett, professor of optometry
Review of Cornea & Contact Lenses: future of multifocal contact lenses

Jim Breaugh, professor of management
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: creating a strong workplace

Steven Bruce, clinical director of the Center for Trauma Recovery
Bozeman (Montana) Daily Chronicle: his role as an expert witness on post-traumatic stress disorder

Alan Byrd, dean of enrollment services
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: summer melt for college-bound students

Brad Collins, fourth-year optometry student
Vision Monday: named by the publication as “Best in Class”

Rita Csapo-Sweet, associate professor of media studies
Vox: children learning from viewing “Sesame Street”

Maurice Dawson, assistant professor of information systems
eCampus News: open source software

Alumnus Robert Ensley, OD 2013
Review of Cornea & Contact Lenses: the fight against discomfort in daily disposable contact lenses

Chancellor Tom George
“St. Louis on the Air” on St. Louis Public Radio | 90.7 KWMU: state of the university
KSDK (Channel 5): status of Normandie and St. Agnes halls demolition
KBIA (91.3 FM in Columbia, Mo.): memorializing former UM System President Elson Floyd
Columbia Daily Tribune: memorializing former UM System President Elson Floyd

Louis Gerteis, professor of history
KSDK: vandalized Confederate memorial in Forest Park
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: vandalized Confederate memorial in Forest Park

Allana Glass, a junior majoring in criminology and criminal justice
The St. Louis American: her work teaching dance to elementary school students

Alumna Cynthia Graham, BA English 2012
The Southern Illinoisan: her new novel, “Beneath Still Waters”

Alumnus Matt Hirschfeld, BGS 2003
KSDK (Channel 5): his work is featured in a “Saturday Night Live” museum

Terry Jones, Founders Professor of Political Science
Town & Style: lifelong learning

David Klinger, professor of criminology and criminal justice
Boston Globe: cops’ use of clergy and community leaders as conduit to public following police shootings
Los Angeles Times: police use of force

Mary Lacity, Curators’ Professor of Information Systems
Harvard Business Review: knowledge workers could gain from automation

Jacquelyn Lewis-Harris, director of the Center for Human Origin & Cultural Diversity
St. Louis Public Radio: recipient of an Arts and Education Council of Greater St. Louis award

Ray Mundy, director of the Center for Transportation Studies
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: consumer demand for a taxicab alternative

David Robertson, Curators’ Teaching Professor of Political Science
The Kansas City (Missouri) Star: geographic isolation of state capitals and its effect on accountability

Richard Rosenfeld, Founders Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Denver Business Journal: choosing where to live based on that area’s crime rates
WalletHub: safest states to live in
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: gun-rights disputes
CityLab: busting the myth of the “Ferguson Effect”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: the “Ferguson effect”

Martin Sage, professor emeritus of biology
The Register Guard (Eugene, Oregon): Sage’s book “Ferns of Hendricks Park”

Alumna Phyllis Smith, BSEd 1972
24 Hours Toronto: her working voicing the character Sadness in the Disney Pixar film “Inside Out”
Edmonton Sun: her working voicing the character Sadness in the Disney Pixar film “Inside Out”
We Are Movie Geeks: her working voicing the character Sadness in the Disney Pixar film “Inside Out”

Zuleyma Tang-Martinez, professor emeritus of biology
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: advancement of gay rights

Kenneth Thomas, professor of political science
Bloomberg: tax incentives by states and localities

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