Martin found her passion for humanitarian work while volunteering with UMSL’s chapter of Student Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity last month.

Martin found her passion for humanitarian work while volunteering with UMSL’s chapter of Student Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity last month.
Martin found her passion for humanitarian work while volunteering with UMSL’s chapter of Student Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity last month.
Martin found her passion for humanitarian work while volunteering with UMSL’s chapter of Student Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity last month.
Martin found her passion for humanitarian work while volunteering with UMSL’s chapter of Student Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity last month.
Patrick is the first member of her family to earn a college degree and will begin working toward her PhD next fall at Georgia Tech.
Patrick is the first member of her family to earn a college degree and will begin working toward her PhD next fall at Georgia Tech.
Patrick is the first member of her family to earn a college degree and will begin working toward her PhD next fall at Georgia Tech.
Barksdale will be working as a registered nurse, caring for children born with congenital heart defects.
Barksdale will be working as a registered nurse, caring for children born with congenital heart defects.
Barksdale will be working as a registered nurse, caring for children born with congenital heart defects.
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.
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.
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.
As UMSL celebrates its 50th anniversary throughout 2013 with the Jubilee, it seems fitting to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the only NCAA Division II National Championship the university has won in its first half century. The men of the 1973 Rivermen soccer team are to thank, bringing home the championship trophy after blanking The University of California–Fullerton with a score of 3-0 on Dec. 8 in Springfield, Mass.
The two commencement speakers at the University of Missouri–St. Louis on Aug. 10 should fire up the nearly 300 students receiving their degrees. Both are passionate about what they do and very good at it.
Study abroad can prove to be one of the most gratifying, adventurous, challenging and extraordinary opportunities that you undertake in life. It certainly has been for me. I sought opportunity this past summer for six weeks studying and traveling across Ireland as a participant in the Irish Studies Summer School at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
When Emma Daus was a student at Rosati-Kain High School in St. Louis, she attended Extreme IT Summer Academy at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. She credits the camp with helping her make a decision about where to go to college.
While $1,000 in research funding might not sound like a significant amount, to Hung Nguyen, a senior at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, it’s practically a windfall.
University of Missouri–St. Louis awarded the inaugural SCORE scholarship May 8 in the amount of $1,000 to marketing and Pierre Laclede Honors College student Sumedha Rao.
University of Missouri–St. Louis students will have 19 new scholarship options to help pay for school this fall thanks to university donors and a program established by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and implemented by the University of Missouri System.
A variety of studies and media outlets agree: the actuarial field is booming even among these tough economic times. A recent analysis put together by CareerCast, a job search portal that says its analysis is a quarter century in the making, states that growth in the actuarial field is set to outpace all other professions. Keeping true to its commitment to prepare students for the changing job market, UMSL now offers a Certificate in Actuarial Studies through the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. And given the profession’s booming future, it’s perhaps no surprise the first recipient of the certificate, Nicholas Brune, is completing his entire undergraduate curriculum in only three years.
The University of Missouri–St. Louis makes a significant impact on the St. Louis area. Stories about the university, its scholars and their expertise are often covered by local and national news media.
While Ken Earley was thrilled to be on the receiving end of a $1,000 scholarship, the source of the money made the gift even more rewarding.
The University of Missouri–St. Louis makes a significant impact on the St. Louis area. Stories about the university, its scholars and their expertise are often covered by local and national news media.
Eric’el Johnson has set her sights on being a professor of electrical engineering. Her classmate Ellen Vehige wants to build bridges as a civil engineer. Thanks to the Opportunity Scholars Program at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, these two college freshmen could play a critical role in the St. Louis region’s future.
St. Louis entertainers Carolbeth True and Deborah Scharn provided a lively beginning to this year’s Trailblazers ceremony at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Their renditions of Helen Reddy’s 1971 hit ”I Am Woman” and “I’m A Woman,” popularized by Peggy Lee in 1962, had the audience clapping and singing along
The Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri–St. Louis will throw a party to mark two occasions this Friday (Feb. 22). The honors college will release issue 13 of its annual literary publication “Bellerive” and kickoff the submissions collection for issue 14, which will be produced during the fall semester.
Joseph Hendricks has recently found himself performing in one of the most renowned concert halls in the United States, Powell Symphony Hall, home to the St. Louis Symphony.
The University of Missouri–St. Louis makes a significant impact on the St. Louis area. Stories about the university, its scholars and their expertise are often covered by local and national news media.
Nearly 600 students at the University of Missouri–St. Louis will receive a coveted gift Saturday, one they’ve been working on for years. Three commencement ceremonies will be held at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Dec. 15 in the Mark Twain Athletic & Fitness Center on the university’s North Campus.
The location might have changed, but the premise of the annual Faculty Author Reception at the University of Missouri–St. Louis is the same.
More new undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Missouri–St. Louis in August than any fall semester since 1999, despite a decline in Missouri high school graduates. The 2,519 new students comprise the second largest transfer class (1,972 students) in UMSL’s history and an incoming freshmen class that set a record average ACT score of 24.
The University of Missouri–St. Louis raised about $20 million in private scholarship funds over the course of its seven-year Gateway for Greatness Campaign. What does that mean for UMSL students?
More than 900 people visited the University of Missouri–St. Louis on Nov. 17 for UMSL Day. The biannual event gives...
Benjamin Taylor was shocked when he was notified that he’d been selected by the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants as the Lead and Enhance the Accounting Profession Student of the Month for June 2012. He was even more surprised when he learned a month later he’d been chosen as the 2011-12 LEAP Student of the Year.
The International Business program at the University of Missouri–St. Louis extended its streak of U.S. News & World Report top 20 rankings to 10 consecutive years.
Traveling the globe is nothing new to Sean Hanebery. Having spent time living in London, France, Germany and the United States, the University of Missouri–St. Louis alumnus didn’t hesitate when offered the opportunity to move to Prague.
Dr. Patricia Wolff, a St. Louis pediatrician who left her private practice last year to devote her time to providing food and medicine to malnourished children in Haiti, is one of three individuals receiving honorary degrees at five commencement ceremonies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis May 12 and 13.
Among the more than 1,500 students graduating from the University of Missouri–St. Louis Saturday, four of them stand out for what they have in common. They’ve all earned high honors, entered college at the sophomore level and are 20 years old. (Since 1974, only 217 of more than 60,000 UMSL graduates were 20 years old or younger.) Not surprisingly, they’re highly focused individuals with grand plans.
With a $1 million gift to the University of Missouri–St. Louis, Chancellor Tom George announced the Monsanto Company will fund a community education center in the university’s new building in Grand Center. George also announced funding of the “transformative” redesign of a portion of Natural Bridge Road from Hanley to Lucas and Hunt roads that runs through the campus in North County.
The five women honored at this year’s Trailblazers Award ceremony March 7 fulfilled the requirement: Women whose extraordinary lives have contributed to the advancement of women. The annual event at the University of Missouri–St. Louis is one of the highlights of Women’s History Month.
Birgit Noll, associate teaching professor in the Pierre Laclede Honors College at UMSL, leads an information session about the honors college during UMSL Day on March 3. The event brought crowds of prospective students and their families to campus to gather information about the university. The picture, taken by campus photographer August Jennewein, is the latest to be featured at Eye on UMSL.
What started as a lesson of gratefulness for Dr. Sharon Dunski Vermont’s two young daughters, developed into a journey for her children to meet 30 people and learn their life stories.
Are you smarter than a student from the Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri–St. Louis? The college will give you a chance to find out Saturday (Feb. 25) at Honors Trivia Night 2012.
Commencement speakers often share words of wisdom with the new graduates that make up their audience. This line stood...
Nearly 600 graduates of the University Missouri–St. Louis will receive a coveted college diploma this holiday season....
Robert Bliss had a problem. He had already spent his allotted funds for the semester on an economics book. But for...
Denny Kraichely, BS chemistry 1994, was named one of Pharm Exec’s 2011 Emerging Pharma Leaders. The award recognizes...
Billy Benner has created his film homage to south St. Louis. The University of Missouri–St. Louis alumnus wrote and...
A team of University of Missouri–St. Louis students and faculty members recently planted a prairie garden that was...
Personal and academic successes are the cornerstones of the Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of...
Joseph Carroll, Curators’ Professor of English at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, has devoted nearly 20 years to...
University of Missouri–St. Louis Chancellor Tom George surprised Fred Fausz last week when he presented the associate...
Although the University of Missouri–St. Louis cheerleaders and Louie, the university's mascot, were introduced to the...
The University of Missouri–St. Louis Community Partnership Project will present, as part of their Seminar Series, “One...
What started with a casual conversation between marketing and a dean resulted in a rousing success for the University...
In the 125 years since St. Louis separated from St. Louis County, there have been several conversations about a...
If you have a humanities degree, you’ve likely been asked by someone at some point: “What are you going to do with...
University of Missouri–St. Louis freshmen Nesmira Muratovic, Vildana Omeragic and Kenan Sahbaz don’t remember much...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kc-Z-2i3Ds The University of Missouri–St. Louis released a new video called “Three...
Standing at the lectern, gazing at the bright and energetic faces of 325 graduates, Norm Eaker encouraged them to...
A decade ago, few people could have imagined the University of Missouri–St. Louis as a wedding destination. Today...
It's been said that the family that plays together, stays together. The Dickson family gives new meaning to that old...