Social justice experts, students, faculty and staff recently gathered together at UMSL to promote unity and healing and push for change.

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Social justice experts, students, faculty and staff recently gathered together at UMSL to promote unity and healing and push for change.
Culminating in this week’s performance at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center, the community-oriented effort was initiated by UMSL faculty member Gail Fleming.
Tracee Stewart, Jestika Gajjar and Kerrine Nelson – all UMSL students – helped organize the Nov. 18 event, which drew industry leaders from around the country.
The photography exhibit tells stories of survival, including Reis’. She fled civil war in Bosnia as a teenager and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at UMSL.
During his campus visit this week, Mun Choi shared a collaborative vision that emphasizes student empowerment and community partnerships.
For his senior capstone project, the UMSL graphic design student has been working with the young artists on the poster series “Audio Chroma: The Power of Music and Design.”
Dibooglu will present research he’s done with colleagues in Turkey and Kazakhstan on forecasting bank defaults at the UMSL-sponsored event.
Fifteen UMSL grads – all St. Louis metro-area teachers – were honored at Sunday’s event, which took place in Clayton.
Nearly 300 attendees of the grand opening received tours of the four-story, 75,000-square-foot facility as students demonstrated experiments and showed off their new space.
Kathryn Loucks, president of the Student Government Association, shared her experiences with high school students during this year’s event before UMSL Day.