Campus photographer Derik Holtmann captured joyous scenes as UMSL celebrated nearly 1,700 spring and summer graduates during five commencement ceremonies.

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Campus photographer Derik Holtmann captured joyous scenes as UMSL celebrated nearly 1,700 spring and summer graduates during five commencement ceremonies.
The weekend’s featured speakers will include Clayco Founder Bob Clark, James S. McDonnell Foundation President Jason Purnell, former Delmar DivINe Executive Director Jorge Riopedre and UMSL alumni Dr. Mansur Nurdel and Andrea Jackson-Jennings.
Under faculty member Gary Moore’s guidance, four engineering students did an initial site analysis, then brought the design to 90% completion before handing the project off to partners.
Nnanna, who officially started April 1, has been busy building the School of Engineering curriculum and hiring faculty members in preparation for welcoming the inaugural cohort for the fall semester.
More than 430 students and alumni attended the event and had the opportunity to visit with 85 employers across a wide variety of career fields.
A total of 470 area high school students, including 66 seniors, took part in this year’s Saturday Academy.
As a project engineer with Grumman|Butkus Associates in Chicago, O’Neill looks for ways to save energy and optimize mechanical systems in existing buildings to make them more efficient and sustainable.
Nnanna was the founding dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas Permian Basin from 2018 to 2023 and more recently has been the director of its Texas Water and Energy Institute.
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Olejniczak will be part of a team of technicians that operates on transformers – such as the ones used by Ameren and other large power companies – that are experiencing issues.