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Lots of help on hand for Move-In Day

Aug 24, 2010

Students who arrived at residence halls on the University of Missouri–St. Louis campus this week were met by an auspicious group: other UMSL students. Awaiting new and returning students at campus residences were residential advisors, sorority and fraternity members and other volunteers.

“During my time here, we’ve always welcomed volunteers for ‘Move-In Day,'” said Jackie McCauley, hall director for Oak Hall. “The groups call or e-mail Khalilah Doss, and she tells them where to turn up.” Doss is assistant director of residential life at UMSL.

UMSL expects record enrollment

Aug 23, 2010

Enrollment at the University of Missouri–St. Louis is expected to surpass last year’s record of 16,548, according to...

Science educator chooses UMSL for PhD

Jun 29, 2010

Janet Carrie Launius is a very busy person. A doctoral student at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, Launius also has a full-time job as the science coordinator for the Hazelwood School District and a part-time job as the education columnist for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

State taps UMSL faculty for appointed school board

May 21, 2010

The Missouri State Board of Education appointed University of Missouri–St. Louis faculty members Lynn Beckwith and Mark Tranel to a three-person “special administrative board” to lead the Riverview Gardens School District in north St. Louis County.

UMSL doctoral candidate compares grandparents to parents

Dec 17, 2009

Vanessa Garry has been an educator for more than 30 years. And in that time she has learned that reading is the foundation of academic achievement and can determine a student’s success. So when Garry, vice president of education for Confluence Academy in St. Louis, began her thesis project for her doctorate in education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, she decided to look at reading.

Historian writes biography on LBJ

Nov 25, 2009

Kevin Fernlund, associate professor of history and secondary education at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, was only four years old when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Seeing the news unfold on the black-and-white television in his family’s living room in Aurora, Colo., and the introduction of Lyndon B. Johnson as the new president were his earliest news memories.

UMSL scholar appointed associate editor of journal

Oct 28, 2009

Matthew Lemberger, assistant professor of counseling at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, has been appointed Associate Editor for the Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education, and Development.

SLSO to debut work by alumnus composer

Oct 22, 2009

“Freedom’s Plow,” a new choral piece by University of Missouri–St. Louis alumnus Rollo Dilworth (pictured), MEd 1994, will make its world premiere Friday in a performance at Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis. Commissioned by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, “Freedom’s Plow” will be performed in a concert that combines the Saint Louis Symphony Chorus and Saint Louis Symphony IN UNISON® Chorus.

‘Homework Lady’ writes book on homework

Jul 22, 2009

Too much of a good thing is never good for anyone. And Cathy Vatterott, associate professor of teaching and learning at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, says that’s true of homework, too.

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