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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
Associate Professor Lauren Obermark and Assistant Teaching Professor Lauren Terbrock-Elmestad worked to revamp the curriculum of the university’s first-year writing course, including the addition of a community advocacy project.
Associate Professor Lauren Obermark and Assistant Teaching Professor Lauren Terbrock-Elmestad worked to revamp the curriculum of the university’s first-year writing course, including the addition of a community advocacy project.
Associate Professor Lauren Obermark and Assistant Teaching Professor Lauren Terbrock-Elmestad worked to revamp the curriculum of the university’s first-year writing course, including the addition of a community advocacy project.
New events include an after party and Jeopardy-inspired trivia game.
New events include an after party and Jeopardy-inspired trivia game.
New events include an after party and Jeopardy-inspired trivia game.
The 20th-ranked women’s golf team took first place in the UMSL Spring Invitational, finishing 29 shots ahead of runner-up Indianapolis at Norwood Hills Country Club.
The 20th-ranked women’s golf team took first place in the UMSL Spring Invitational, finishing 29 shots ahead of runner-up Indianapolis at Norwood Hills Country Club.
The 20th-ranked women’s golf team took first place in the UMSL Spring Invitational, finishing 29 shots ahead of runner-up Indianapolis at Norwood Hills Country Club.
Bob Malon earned the Silver Beaver Award for his 16 years of exceptional leadership and service to scouting in the region.
UMSL’s Helene Sherman talked with Christine Buck on KPLR about the importance of math and how everyone uses it daily.
Werner and Heyburn both own 3.92 cumulative grade point averages as business administration students.
The criminologist visited his alma mater earlier this spring to speak at the annual Youth Violence Prevention Conference.
The camp attracts more than 80 students to the UMSL campus where they learn from trumpeter Dave Scott (pictured), camp founder Jim Widner and other professional jazz musicians.
From U2 to Maroon 5 to Pope John Paul II, if you’ve been to a major event in St. Louis in the past 40 years, Steve Schankman was probably involved.
The largest local concentration of UMSL alumni resides in St. Louis, St. Charles, Jefferson and Franklin counties and St. Louis city.
Michael Hughes, assistant professor of biology at UMSL, is the administrator of the next-generation sequencer, an instrument that rapidly sequences molecules like RNA and DNA.
Margaret Barton-Burke, the Mary Ann Lee Endowed Professor of Oncology Nursing at UMSL, assumed the position at the organization’s annual meeting this May in Anaheim, Calif.
He is the fifth faculty member from his department to be named an ASC fellow. Other fellows include Bob Bursik, Janet Lauritsen, Richard Rosenfeld and Richard Wright.
The recent UMSL graduate gets to earn a living in the art world while gaining experience and furthering her knowledge.
Zhi Xu has been honored by The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis for creating an inexpensive, noninvasive blood glucose monitor.
He won the Peoples’ Choice Award from AIGA Saint Louis for this design commemorating United Nations Day and started work at the agency Manifest Digital.
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster received an up-close look at the University of Missouri–St. Louis campus during a half-day visit May 22 with Chancellor Tom George.
Priscilla Block (center), director of St. Louis Artworks, won the Dean’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts from the UMSL College of Fine Arts and Communication.
All of the honorary degree recipients have strong ties to UMSL or the St. Louis region and a commitment to excellence in their work and their communities.
Farida Jalalzai, chair of the Department of Political Science, wrote about Clinton’s chances for The Washington Post.
Technology has made it easier to quickly snap a photo and upload it to one of dozens of social media platforms for all to see.
UMSL’s College of Education faculty created the Studio Schools model as a way to better prepare future teachers for the classroom.
Recipients of this year’s awards are (from left) Cletus Glasener, Sheila Burkett, Jolene A. Lampton, Sean C. O’Donnell and Orvin Kimbrough.
UMSL’s Bosnian students and alumni make their mark on the campus and the region.
Barker always knew he wanted to work in health care, though it took some time for him to figure out specifically what he wanted to do in the field.
“UMSL helped me become serious about academics,” says Steve Novack, who serves as a member of the UMSL Chancellor’s Council.
Authors and editors include Mary Lacity, Susan Brownell, Denise Mussman, Uma Segal, Laura Miller, Margaret Sherraden and Mark Burkholder.
With the help of her team, she is really changing UMSL’s perspective on alumni relationships versus relations.
Patrick Gadell, BA political science 1973, has thrown himself into connecting students and alumni with UMSL in meaningful ways at all points in the engagement life cycle.
Jackson Suhre (left) helps artist Joe Chesla with the installation of his poetry box, “Ode to Big Muddy Asian Carp,” for Poetry of the Wild/St. Louis Fusion.
Students and ducks have long flocked to Bugg Lake at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
The awards reception marked the conclusion of UMSL’s weeklong Research & Innovation Week.
More than 200 students, faculty, staff and family members cheered on the award winners like Josiah Perkins, who received the Student Leader of the Year Award.
Fifth grade teacher Christine Ries received the 2013 Outstanding Elementary Science Teacher of Missouri Award.
The education major maintained a 4.00 grade point average while starting all 47 softball games in centerfield without committing an error and being a perfect 8-for-8 in stolen bases.
The media studies major maintained a 3.63 grade point average while leading the baseball team in hits and runs scored.
The dance concert will take place at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday at the Touhill.
Kristin Carbone-Lopez, associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at UMSL, incorporates service-learning in her Violence Against Women course.
Julie Dunn-Morton, of the Mercantile talked with Kathy Lawton Brown of Radio Arts Foundation-St. Louis (107.3 FM) recently on this annual event.
Nasser Arshadi’s paper was published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The media studies major wears her outcast label proudly on her shirt through her own clothing line, Certified OutKast.
Many attendees of a recent packed prom in the St. Louis area might have been seniors, but none of them were high school students.
Richard Rosenfeld (pictured) and Dan Isom joined a group of community leaders and law enforcement officials to discuss crime trends and issues in the region.
Robert Marquis, professor of biology, and Christina Baer, a doctoral student in biology, conducted a study that found leaf-tying caterpillars are inadvertently benefitting adult Asiatic oak weevils, an invasive species.
The St. Louis Business Journal showcased the ongoing and planned construction on and near campus in two articles last week.
UMSL campus photographer August Jennewein was en route to an assignment at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center when he was struck by what he saw.
“At this point, I am still in shock, and it is very difficult to put into words what it all means,” said Steve Cash, just days after returning from Russia.
Of special note, the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice’s doctoral degree program ranks fourth.
UMSL is seeking $10 million from the Higher Education Capital Fund in order to start construction later this year.
The college anticipates the building design to be completed by fall with construction to wrap by summer 2016.
UMSL photographer August Jennewein selects his favorite images from last week’s Pack the Stands.
The Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life at UMSL and three members of the National Association of Women Judges presented the 2014 Girls Summit.
UMSL students are getting the best undergraduate online experience in the state, according to US News and World Report’s 2014 Best Online Programs Rankings.