Rose Postma, Author at UMSL Daily

Stories by Rose Postma

Jennifer Tappenden introduces poetry to the public one poem at a time

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,...

Senior benefits from Vantage CEO’s mentoring

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....

Tritons women golfers have ‘great chemistry,’ find success

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...

We’ve got spirit, how about you?

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....

Alumnus writes memoir about Mexico

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...

Bosnian student filmmakers call UMSL home

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...

Graduate students display research at annual fair

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...

UMSL graduate student writes first novel

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...