He’s enjoyed watching the club grow and working with the creative team to develop and bring awareness to the St. Louis-centered brand.
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UMSL alum Ken Earley puts creative talents to use for St. Louis CITY SC
He’s enjoyed watching the club grow and working with the creative team to develop and bring awareness to the St. Louis-centered brand.
UMSL alum Ken Earley puts creative talents to use for St. Louis CITY SC
He’s enjoyed watching the club grow and working with the creative team to develop and bring awareness to the St. Louis-centered brand.
UMSL alum Ken Earley puts creative talents to use for St. Louis CITY SC
He’s enjoyed watching the club grow and working with the creative team to develop and bring awareness to the St. Louis-centered brand.
Fall 2023 commencement: A Saturday for celebration
Campus photographer Derik Holtmann captured some of the joyous scenes as UMSL celebrated nearly 1,000 graduates.
Fall 2023 commencement: A Saturday for celebration
Campus photographer Derik Holtmann captured some of the joyous scenes as UMSL celebrated nearly 1,000 graduates.
Fall 2023 commencement: A Saturday for celebration
Campus photographer Derik Holtmann captured some of the joyous scenes as UMSL celebrated nearly 1,000 graduates.
Nepalese student Saksham Prajapati makes most of time at UMSL while earning degree in physics
Prajapati was active in the Physics Club and Student Government Association and received his degree with distinction for his research on comets with Professor Erika Gibb.
Nepalese student Saksham Prajapati makes most of time at UMSL while earning degree in physics
Prajapati was active in the Physics Club and Student Government Association and received his degree with distinction for his research on comets with Professor Erika Gibb.
Nepalese student Saksham Prajapati makes most of time at UMSL while earning degree in physics
Prajapati was active in the Physics Club and Student Government Association and received his degree with distinction for his research on comets with Professor Erika Gibb.
Nursing graduate Abby Crow starting position as labor and delivery nurse at St. John’s Hospital
Crow graduated magna cum laude with her BSN from the College of Nursing and a certificate from the Pierre Laclede Honors College.
Nursing graduate Abby Crow starting position as labor and delivery nurse at St. John’s Hospital
Crow graduated magna cum laude with her BSN from the College of Nursing and a certificate from the Pierre Laclede Honors College.
Nursing graduate Abby Crow starting position as labor and delivery nurse at St. John’s Hospital
Crow graduated magna cum laude with her BSN from the College of Nursing and a certificate from the Pierre Laclede Honors College.
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Eboni Valentine’s education at UMSL continues to support career development
Valentine works as an executive assistant and marketing and communications coordinator in the College of Business Administration while pursuing her MBA.
UMSL Athletics seeking nominations for 2024 UMSL Sports Hall of Fame class
The Hall of Fame has grown to include 87 individual and 10 team inductees since its inaugural class in 2001.
Media Coverage: June 2023
Stories about the university, its scholars and their expertise are often covered by local and national news media. Media Coverage highlights some of the top stories.
Chris Jones embarks on career in law enforcement while pursuing criminology and criminal justice degree at UMSL
Jones first got the opportunity to work with a local police department through the Boy Scouts Exploring program.
Dustin Smith, Christy Hummel and Mitch Hess receive UMSL Hero Awards
The monthly awards recognize the exemplary efforts of staff and faculty members from across campus.
Gov. Mike Parson signs budget directing $20 million to Transform UMSL alongside an increase in core funding
The FY24 funding follows $40 million in ARPA funding the state directed to the university last year to kickstart UMSL’s first steps in realizing its Campus Master Plan.
Eye on UMSL: ‘Art in Storefronts’
“Art in Storefronts,” a walk-up exhibition featuring work of UMSL BFA students Agibail Lollis, Olivia Obi and Sarah Butler, is on display in downtown Ferguson, Missouri.
UMSL biology student Alexander Entwistle honored as a 2023 recipient of Remington R. Williams Award by University of Missouri Board of Curators
A junior, Entwistle serves as president of the Pierre Laclede Honors College Student Association and is also a member of UMSL’s pre-medical society and Alpha Lambda Delta.
Keren and Keith Clinton continue UMSL family legacy
Keren, a May BSBA graduate, and Keith, a rising sophomore majoring in business, are following in the footsteps of their mother, Kimberly, and two older siblings.
Pressing the start button: UMSL prepares to launch new esports program this fall
Bovey Zhang is serving as the inaugural director of the program after previous stints at Cottey College and Saint Leo University.
Biology doctoral student Ketra Oketcho aims to improve global food security through research at Danforth Plant Science Center
Oketcho is trying to understand the mechanisms behind native resistance to cassava mosaic virus, which impacts cassava, a tuberous root plant that is a staple crop in much of Africa.
UMSL Addiction Science Team hosts roundtable with Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Rachel Levine
The meeting focused on ways to increase access to naloxone for people impacted by addiction in low-income housing.
Eye on UMSL: Summer tour
A student guide leads a group of prospective students on a tour of the UMSL campus, walking past the Millennium Student Center and toward the Recreation and Wellness Center.
UMSL Optometry alumnus Justin Kendall scores big on FOX’s ‘Beat Shazam’ game show
Kendall and his brother, James, competed on the show June 6 and won the $1 million grand prize.
50 area high school students attend UMSL’s inaugural geospatial summer camp
The four-day camp provided students with an introduction to geospatial science and gave them a chance to work with GIS tools such as ArcGIS to investigate policy problems.
College of Education hosts its second Future Teacher Leadership Academy
A total of 14 students from nine area high schools participated in the free two-week program, which ended last week.
Alumnus Kyle Jakubeck earns one of the top CPA exam scores in the country
Jakubeck was one of 50 recipients of the prestigious Elijah Watt Sells Award from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Eye on UMSL: Connecting applicants to opportunities
Tangela Williams-Spann speaks with HR specialist Cleola Butler about job opportunities at UMSL during the St. Louis Anchor Action Network’s Juneteenth Hiring & Career Expo.
UMSL alumnus and soul musician Brian Owens performs ‘Stand By Me’ on TODAY with his father
The duo also held a Father’s Day concert at the Touhill while promoting new album “Duets With Dad,” coming out this fall.
UMSL Athletics hosts St. Louis CITY Cup
A group of 220 kids from across the St. Louis region participated in the June 10 training event at Don Dallas Soccer Field.
Ask an expert: Criminologist Richard Rosenfeld studies the impact the opioid epidemic has had on homicides
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation recently published a report from Rosenfeld and colleagues Joel Wallman and Randolph Roth showing a link between opioids and homicide.
Succeed student Maggie Scherder wins gold at Virtus Global Games
Scherder took first in the 50-meter backstroke, 100-meter backstroke and 50-meter freestyle at the competition in Vichy, France.
UMSL engineering students work to help restore historic Greenwood Cemetery
Students Trinity Lopez, Dwayne Perry and Alexis Twillman, along with program director Gary Moore, are designing a paved roadway to help with restorations at the cemetery.
UMSL welcomes new Commissioner Bennett Boggs, members of Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education
The board held the first quarterly meeting of Boggs’ tenure leading the Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development at the Touhill.
SGA President Sydney Stark bound for law school in New England
Stark graduated magna cum laude with degrees in criminology and criminal justice and Spanish and a certificate from the Pierre Laclede Honors College.
Alumnus Marco Cheatham designs soccer ball commemorating Juneteenth for St. Louis CITY SC’s match against LA Galaxy
UMSL served as the presenting partner for the match, and the first 10,000 fans through the gates received a ball.
Counseling PhD student Corey Hancock launches UMSL Chess Club
The club is open to all skill levels, and Hancock plans to expand its event programming to include exhibitions and tournaments during the coming academic year.
UMSL accounting students preparing to compete in Beta Alpha Psi competition at national meeting in Las Vegas
Krista Akers, Jameah Collins and Jarchelle Williams won the chance to compete after placing first at the regional competition in Milwaukee earlier this year.
NSA redesignates UMSL as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education
Associate Professors Vijay Anand and Shaji Khan from the Department of Information Systems and Technology led the redesignation process.
Rachel Winograd presents on mitigation strategies for Missouri’s overdose crisis as part of NextGen Precision Health’s Discovery Series
Winograd gave her talk as part of the monthly series, which showcases multidisciplinary health research from across the UM System.
Physics and Honors College graduate Lindsay Salassi lands position with Bosch Engineering in Vienna
Salassi moved abroad after graduating from UMSL last fall.
Chancellor Kristin Sobolik receives Good Scout Award from BSA’s Greater St. Louis Area Council
Sobolik joined a group of prominent area leaders to receive the award, including Rick Stevens, Dennis Gipson, Ed Monser and prominent UMSL alumni Art McCoy and the late Kirk Richter.
University of Missouri–St. Louis breaks ground on new Richter Family Welcome and Alumni Center
The new 31,000-square-foot center will serve as a gateway for prospective students while also providing a permanent home for the university’s more than 112,000 alumni.
Eye on UMSL: New beds
University of Missouri–St. Louis biology majors Nora Stith and Jesse Laseter add soil to one of the seven new garden beds at the UMSL Community Garden.
Workshop helps teachers learn ways to bring geospatial technology into classrooms
More than two dozen teachers took part in Friday’s workshop, held in conjunction with the Geography 2050 STL: Feeding Our Future Planet symposium.
UMSL Education Professor Theresa Coble appointed to the National Park System Advisory Board
The board counsels Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and NPS Director Charles F. Sams on matters relating to the service’s work and helps recommend new national landmarks.
Provost Steven Berberich announces 22 faculty promotions for the 2023-24 academic year
Nine tenured professors were promoted to associate professor, four individuals to full teaching professor, eight to associate teaching professor and one to associate clinical professor.
Professional pitcher Michael Plassmeyer pursuing BSBA at UMSL while working to reach major leagues
Plassmeyer pitched collegiately at MU but transferred to UMSL after getting drafted because of its proximity to his offseason home and the convenience of its online courses.
Media Coverage: May 2023
Stories about the university, its scholars and their expertise are often covered by local and national news media. Media Coverage highlights some of the top stories.
Alumna Abby Birhanu gives students a voice through art education
Birhanu serves as a visual and fiber art teacher at Wydown Middle School and recently won MAEA 2022 Middle/Junior High School Art Educator of the Year.
Cybersecurity major Cin Lam Mung aids his community in Myanmar through music
After Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, Mung recorded and sold copies of “Nang a Ding Om Den Ning,” an album of 12 love songs, to raise money for those affected.
UMSL partners with American Geographical Society to host Geography 2050 STL
Thursday’s symposium had the theme “Feeding Our Future Planet” and covered issues at the intersection of geospatial technology and agriculture. It also included a teacher workshop on Friday.
College of Nursing’s Kim Werner on women’s health, translating research into real-world practices and more
Werner, an associate professor and associate dean of research, also serves as the principal investigator for Tritons United: Against Gender-Based Violence.
Conductor Maria A. Ellis offers her own brand of music education
With her company, Girl Conductor, the UMSL alumna has been taking her music education all over the country.
St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality attracts philosophers from around the globe
A group of 38 philosophers from locations as far as Brazil, Hong Kong, Stockholm and Zurich attended the conference, hosted by UMSL’s Department of Philosophy.
Sherry Fantroy-Ross, Heather Floden and Andrew Kliethermes receive UMSL Hero Awards
The award is presented to up to three staff or faculty members each month in recognition of their efforts to transform the lives of UMSL students and the wider community.
UMSL alumna and associate professor emeritus co-author book on educational equity
Sonya Murray-Darden and Gwendolyn Y. Turner’s new book “Serving Educational Equity: A Five-Course Framework for Accelerated Learning,” will be released on June 8.
New graduate Natalie Krauss set to pursue PhD in Medieval European History
Krauss’ first time in college ended in failure, but she returned more than a decade later with a renewed focus and graduated summa cum laude with degrees in English and history.
Eye on UMSL: Spring sunset
A family paused to take in the sunset last week on the walkway outside of the Recreation and Wellness Center.
PhD graduate Christina Castellano will combine passions for teaching and women’s health as assistant teaching professor in UMSL College of Nursing
Castellano’s dissertation examined how empowerment and social support impact the postpartum experience for low-income mothers living in rural areas.
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