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.
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Anita Manion, Richard Treadway and Jhanae Latham 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.
Anita Manion, Richard Treadway and Jhanae Latham 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.
Anita Manion, Richard Treadway and Jhanae Latham 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 Tritons weekly rewind
Freshman guard Quenton Parker led a 3-point barrage and scored 19 points as the men’s basketball team topped Maryville 91-66 on the road last Thursday.
UMSL Tritons weekly rewind
Freshman guard Quenton Parker led a 3-point barrage and scored 19 points as the men’s basketball team topped Maryville 91-66 on the road last Thursday.
UMSL Tritons weekly rewind
Freshman guard Quenton Parker led a 3-point barrage and scored 19 points as the men’s basketball team topped Maryville 91-66 on the road last Thursday.
Alum Paige Vaughn helps carry on the legacy of the late Richard Rosenfeld with research on St. Louis Police Partnership
The partnership uses the strategy of focused deterrence to help probationers and parolees avoid illegal activity and other risky behavior while connecting them to social services.
Alum Paige Vaughn helps carry on the legacy of the late Richard Rosenfeld with research on St. Louis Police Partnership
The partnership uses the strategy of focused deterrence to help probationers and parolees avoid illegal activity and other risky behavior while connecting them to social services.
Alum Paige Vaughn helps carry on the legacy of the late Richard Rosenfeld with research on St. Louis Police Partnership
The partnership uses the strategy of focused deterrence to help probationers and parolees avoid illegal activity and other risky behavior while connecting them to social services.
Engineering grad Bob O’Neill builds on passion for sustainability working in retro-commissioning
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.
Engineering grad Bob O’Neill builds on passion for sustainability working in retro-commissioning
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.
Engineering grad Bob O’Neill builds on passion for sustainability working in retro-commissioning
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.
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American Institute of Certified Public Accountants honors Steve Moehrle for achievement in accounting education
The Department of Accounting chair is the first UMSL faculty member to receive the award and is only the second Missourian.
St. Louis Public Radio’s efforts to create savvier news consumers with ‘Mini Journalism School’ garner attention
Current, a nonprofit news service for and about public media in the United States, highlighted the series of six weekly sessions in a recent story on its website.
New video highlights the experience of students in the Pierre Laclede Honors College
The video includes testimonials from current students and recent graduates who’ve benefited from being part of the honors college community.
UMSL alumnae honored as Most Influential Business Women
The St. Louis Business Journal named Nancy Millsap Hawes and Marcela Manjarrez Hawn to the 2019 class.
GUST students enjoy their summer abroad at UMSL
Abdullah Desouki, Maria Saade and Yousef Abuhayya were three of five students visiting from UMSL’s longtime academic partner in Kuwait.
A 25-year ride: Lieutenant Tom McEwen leads with compassion as UMSL Police Department’s longest-serving member
McEwen has been devoted to maintaining UMSL’s safe learning environment since 1994.
New students set to learn Triton traditions through weekend festivities
The extended orientation program known as Triton Take-Off Weekend runs Friday through Sunday.
Snapshot: Nursing graduates honored as they step into their careers
The graduation awards and pinning ceremony recognized the accomplishments of the College of Nursing graduates and welcomed them into the profession.
Five years later: A snapshot of UMSL’s responses after Michael Brown’s death
In the years following Michael Brown’s death, UMSL Daily has covered efforts from the UMSL community to understand, heal, rebuild, change and more.
UMSL chemists to receive funding for projects as part of UM System’s $20.5M research investment
Cynthia Dupureur and Alexei Demchenko are leading two of the 19 innovative projects across the system’s four universities that are in line for funding.
Gallery 210 opens 2019-20 season with community examination of safe spaces
“Exposure 20: Safe Spaces” will open Aug. 24 as part of an ongoing series featuring local artists.
UMSL ranked among top 5 criminology and criminal justice master’s programs
CriminalJusticeDegreeHub.com recognized UMSL’s program among the nation’s best after weighing alumni salary, student satisfaction and tuition cost.
College of Education professor builds connections, trains teachers in Kenya
Shea Kerkhoff led professional development workshops on digital literacy and student-centered learning as part of an ongoing project with Going Global, Inc.
International student establishes second home, budding career in St. Louis
After three internships and an influential student experience, Nino Obanor secured a consulting job at Perficient.
Eye on UMSL: School colors
Lilies show off school spirit as they bloom in the school colors of red and gold beside Bugg Lake on a recent summer day.
Ladue News prominently features UMSL’s Finish Your Degree Scholarship
The weekly paper selected UMSL’s unique degree completion program for Friday’s cover story.
UMSL supply chain ranks in top 15 for quality, affordable master’s programs
Great Value Colleges ranked UMSL among perennial powerhouses for online master’s programs.
Karl Guenther appointed director of UMSL’s Anchor Institution Initiative
Guenther has spent the past eight years working on community engagement and economic development issues at UMSL.
First Jazz Ensemble European tour last act for Jim Widner
The group learned about culture overseas and showcased UMSL’s musical strengths to international audiences while playing in festivals in France and Italy.
Beth Huebner talks progress in reducing the jail population on ‘St. Louis on the Air’
Efforts led by the professor of criminology and criminal justice have helped bring about a 22-percent drop in the St. Louis County jail population since July 2018.
Eye on UMSL: A chain reaction
Biology PhD student Andrea Trigueros (right) showed Jennings students (from left) Morgan Stith and Dakota Warren how to run a polymerase chain reaction to amplify DNA.
MFA program helped cultivate alumnus Dan Musgrave’s sprouting literary career
The 2016 graduate spent two-plus years in the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and is working on a memoir in consultation with his father, John, a Vietnam War veteran.
Jill Bernard Bracy discusses traffic safety measures with news stations in St. Louis, Washington
KSDK (Channel 5) in St. Louis and WJLA (Channel 7) in Washington both featured the assistant teaching professor in reports about reflective pavement markers.
UMSL’s Darwin Aquino talks composition and conducting on ‘St. Louis on the Air’
The assistant teaching professor of music and director of orchestral studies spoke on St. Louis Public Radio in advance of the Gateway Festival Orchestra’s season finale.
Alumnus rises from UMSL Greek life to lead Sigma Pi Fraternity
A transformative experience at UMSL guides Jonathan Frost’s role as executive director and CEO of Sigma Pi.
Regions Bank awards grant to UMSL, The SoulFisher Ministries to aid previously incarcerated job seekers
The $25,000 grant will help fund a series of panels aimed at reducing the stigma around justice-involved individuals while allaying employers’ concerns about hiring them.
Confirmed stars: 88 standout high schoolers complete Students and Teachers as Research Scientists program
The six-week research experience concluded Friday at UMSL with student presentations and a confirmation ceremony.
They chose UMSL: Scenes from New Student Orientation
Incoming students packed the Millenium Student Center Century Rooms Thursday for a glimpse into their new lives at UMSL.
Joint engineering students fight flooding in St. Louis region
Facing near-historic water levels, Kelly Sextro and Joshua Walker search out problems in the area’s levees, dams, locks and flood structures.
Eye on UMSL: Traveling Tritons
UMSL Orientation Leaders gave new students a guided shuttle tour of the University of Missouri–St. Louis campus during orientation Thursday afternoon.
EdD alumnae break new ground with innovative social studies curricula
Chelsea Witwer and Julia Wilkins co-authored an award-winning dissertation focused on teaching social justice through the lenses of power and oppression.
Kristin Sobolik appointed as interim chancellor
Sobolik’s appointment is effective Sept. 1 when UMSL Chancellor Tom George retires.
National Black Nurses Association honors UMSL alumna with 40 and Under Award
The NBNA recognized Crystal Bailey for her prolific community outreach with the Black Nurses Association of Greater St. Louis.
Nominations open for 2020 UMSL Sports Hall of Fame
The Department of Athletics is now accepting nominations for inductees to the UMSL Sports Hall of Fame in three categories: student-athlete, coach or distinguished services.
UMSL Marketing and Communications rolls out digital cybersecurity ad campaign
Watch UMSL’s latest advertisements dedicated to the new bachelor and master of science in cybersecurity programs.
Alumnae Gabrielle Clay, Nesmira Muratovic among Business Journal’s 30 under 30 honorees
Clay, who earned a degree in mathematics in 2012, is a senior project accountant at HOK. Muratovic, BSBA 2013, is a retail risk & supervision oversight manager at TD Ameritrade.
Eye on UMSL: Bee unique
A male Bombus griseocollis, the brown-belted bumblebee, collected pollen on a recent afternoon in the UMSL Native Plant/Conservation Garden.
Alumnus Nate Oatis aims to help kids overcome trauma by teaching mindfulness, meditation
Oatis, who earned his degree in anthropology and economics in May, recently completed his first full year of the nonprofit Excelsior Program.
Alumna helps build up refugee community through her nonprofit Welcome Neighbor STL
Jessica Bueler, BSBA 2005, founded the growing organization that helps immigrants and refugees settle in St. Louis.
‘A tornado dropped me off here’: Nick Palisch on weather, storm chasing and students
The director of student and alumni services for the College of Optometry has caught around 12 twisters, including the 2011 tornado that damaged the airport.
UMSL students laid groundwork for new Lindbergh exhibit at Missouri History Museum
Museum Studies MA students completed a 93-page concept packet in fall 2017 for what would become “Flores Mexicanas: A Lindbergh Love Story.”
Kristin Sobolik tells St. Louis Business Journal how she keeps her life in balance
The provost, an ever-present figure on the UMSL campus over the past two years, likes to step away from her work with daily walks and long train rides.
UMSL/BJC externship grants student nurses expertise for clinicals, future practice
Kathy Carr and Lauren Redditt are among those gaining valuable experience this summer through 10-week intensive program while working at Missouri Baptist Medical Center.
UMSL Tritons 2018-19 year in review
The Tritons sent four teams to the NCAA Division II Championship, won the Great Lakes Valley Conference title in softball and had 117 individuals receive academic all-conference recognition.
UMSL research on violent crime attracts attention from St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Curators’ Distinguished Professor Janet Lauritsen (left) and doctoral candidate Theordore Lentz have published the results of their study in the journal Homicide Studies.
Jon McGinnis, Rachel Winograd and Lara Zwarun named Presidential Engagement Fellows
For their 12-month terms, the three UMSL faculty members will improve the lives of Missouri citizens through the dissemination of knowledge.
UMSL to hold Quick Admit Days for transfer students July 17, Aug. 8
The admissions staff is providing two opportunities to gain admission to the university, meet with an advisor and register for fall classes, all in a single day.
UMSL sees largest percentage increase in research funding of Missouri, southern Illinois universities
The St. Louis Business Journal reported that UMSL had the largest year-over-year growth of large research universities from 2017 to 2018.
Scenes from the NextGen Precision Health Institute groundbreaking
Last Friday, UMSL Chancellor Tom George and MIMH Director Robert Paul spoke at the NextGen Precision Health Institute groundbreaking in Columbia, Missouri.
Sarah Fenske named new ‘St. Louis on the Air’ host
Fenske will join St. Louis Public Radio after four years as the editor-in-chief of the Riverfront Times on July 15 and will take over as host in early August.
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