UMSL students, faculty, staff and alumni celebrated Passover with a lunch on April 9 in the university’s Millennium Student Center. Attendees included (from left): Deborah Medintz, an electrical engineering major; Ron Yasbin, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Andy Kastner, the Silk Foundation rabbi at the St. Louis Hillel at Washington University in St. Louis; Peggy Cohen, associate provost and academic director of the Center for Teaching and Learning; and Jess Rosner (BS public policy administration 2009), a graduate student in the Master of Public Policy Administration program. The Jewish Student Association hosted the lunch. The photograph was taken by UMSL photographer August Jennewein.
English alum Marty Ambrose builds on a lifelong love of poetry in the classroom and in her historical mysteries
Ambrose has written a trilogy on Claire Clairmont, a writer and the stepsister of Mary Shelley, as well as “The Lost Dresses of Italy,” which explores the life of Victorian poet Christina Rossetti.













