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Eye on UMSL: Education Mural

Eye on UMSL: Education Mural

Pat Duffey (left) and Dan Fahy of GROUP360 Worldwide, a St. Louis-based marketing company, install a six-panel wall mural on April 26 in Marillac Hall on UMSL’s South Campus. Joan Barnidge, graphic designer at UMSL, designed the mural for the College of Education. The picture, by campus photographer August Jennewein, is the latest to be featured at Eye on UMSL.

UMSL’s first poet laureate: Jennifer Tappenden

UMSL’s first poet laureate: Jennifer Tappenden

Jennifer Tappenden works by day making small databases for researchers to track study data. By night, the 42-year-old New York native hones her poetry skills while in pursuit of her master’s of fine arts in creative writing at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. She’s scheduled to graduate in December, but before then she’s spending her final year at UMSL as the university’s first poet laureate.

The Challenge

The Challenge

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people … They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” “Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.” –Thomas Jefferson

Nonprofit scholar to discuss human service deserts

Nonprofit scholar to discuss human service deserts

Drawing on the concept of food deserts, popularized by first lady Michelle Obama, scholar Brent Never will discuss the implications of human service deserts for communities of need. He will present his lecture “Service Deserts and Nonprofits: ‘Lumpiness’ in the Fabric of Human Service Provision” from 1:30 to 3 p.m. April 27 at the chapel in Bellerive Hall on South Campus at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.