The Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, city of St. Louis and St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department are now in their eighth month of working together to address public safety issues in the city. So how’s it going? That’s what will be discussed in an Applied Research Seminar presented by the Public Policy Research Center at UMSL.
Los Angeles-based director and writer Julian Higgins has emerged as a young talent within the film industry. He’s received wide acclaim for his short film “Thief” and his turn directing an episode of the popular television show “House” in its final season. He’s next looking to make his feature-film directorial debut with a possible adaptation of the novel “The Inverted Forest” by John Dalton, director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
St. Louis is approaching its 250th birthday. But how much do St. Louisans know about the founding of their city? Do they know about its importance as a cosmopolitan French hub of commerce and culture or how Osage Indians protected and enriched the tiny village?
The St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra will open its 2012-13 at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. The orchestra will accompany Greek tenor and Sony Classical recording artist Mario Frangoulis, who will make his first St. Louis appearance by arrangement with the Horatio Alger Association. Special guests will include soprano Deborah Myers and tenor George Perris.
University of Missouri–St. Louis alumnus David Archibald (BSBA 2005), Matt Hellebusch and Kelsey Cline won the third annual UMSL Tritons Golf Tournament. But the biggest winner was the Department of Athletics at UMSL. Proceeds from the event went toward the department’s 11 sports programs.
In the 1940s, America’s greatest generation sacrificed at home and abroad to win victory in World War II while the nation recovered from the threadbare years of the Great Depression. All the while, the nation’s soundtrack was an upbeat, hopeful mix of swing tempos and romantic ballads that promised better days ahead.
Chicago-based sextet eighth blackbird will migrate south for a performance of classical fusion that incorporates art, philosophy and theater at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. The ensemble’s concert, “shifted in flight,” will begin at 8 p.m. Oct. 12 at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center.
Wednesday night’s presidential debate might have taken place in Denver, but the University of Missouri–St. Louis at Grand Center took center stage for NPR listeners. The new home of St. Louis Public Radio | 90.7 KWMU was the setting for a live broadcast of “Talk of the Nation.”
The Gateway for Greatness Campaign at the University of Missouri–St. Louis concluded this summer after surpassing an initial $100 million fundraising goal and a subsequent $150 million goal. The university raised more than $154 million through gifts by 57,900 donors. Of those contributors to the campaign, 257 gave more than $100,000, and 31 gave more than $1 million.
The University of Missouri–St. Louis community and interested citizens will have a rare opportunity to take in a Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, session outside of downtown St. Louis. The court will hear cases for a special docket between 10 and 11 a.m. Oct. 4 in the Summit Conference Room at the J.C. Penney Building/Conference Center at UMSL.
