Poetry is a hard sell. It has the rap of being difficult, of being inaccessible, of being something only other poets read. No one knows this better than Jennifer Tappenden, a student in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at the University of...
Sometimes good things don't have to come to an end. Many University of Missouri–St. Louis alumni stay connected with their alma mater long after graduation by mentoring current UMSL students. Last year, Jordan Franks, a senior economics major at UMSL, interned at...
The University of Missouri–St. Louis women’s golf team has six members, but those six members call four different countries home. And the team, which members say is more a family than a team, is pretty happy about their performance this season. “This season was simply...
Although the University of Missouri–St. Louis cheerleaders and Louie, the university's mascot, were introduced to the campus just last year, both are already two of the university's most recognizable assets. Under the direction of Sandra Ray, the squad's coach, the...
Today University of Missouri–St. Louis alumnus Rick Skwiot is an award-winning author of several books, but in 1965 he was just a freshman beginning his education at UMSL. His university experience challenged and changed him. "Many students were first-generation...
University of Missouri–St. Louis freshmen Nesmira Muratovic, Vildana Omeragic and Kenan Sahbaz don’t remember much about their lives in Bosnia or the war that devastated the country. But they remember enough to know how important it is to preserve their families’...
In observation of Missouri Graduate Education Week (April 19 to 23), The Graduate School at the University of Missouri–St. Louis and Sigma Xi, the scientific research society, held their annual Graduate Research Fair on Tuesday. Forty-five doctoral and master's degree...
Angie O'Gorman is a student, activist and theologian. And now she is a novelist. O'Gorman spent five years writing "The Book of Sins," which takes place in a future where capitalism has overpowered Christianity, and the only remnant of religion is charity. It's 2034,...
