An Opportunity Scholar, Fayez is headed to the College of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis this fall.
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Mathematics graduate Afina Fayez hopes to help diversify the architecture field
An Opportunity Scholar, Fayez is headed to the College of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis this fall.
Mathematics graduate Afina Fayez hopes to help diversify the architecture field
An Opportunity Scholar, Fayez is headed to the College of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis this fall.
Mathematics graduate Afina Fayez hopes to help diversify the architecture field
An Opportunity Scholar, Fayez is headed to the College of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis this fall.
MPPA graduate Taylor Cook lands director position at Covenant House after internship in chancellor’s office
Cook assisted with coordinating and communicating events and activities around the 60th anniversary and Transform UMSL as the project management and communications intern.
MPPA graduate Taylor Cook lands director position at Covenant House after internship in chancellor’s office
Cook assisted with coordinating and communicating events and activities around the 60th anniversary and Transform UMSL as the project management and communications intern.
MPPA graduate Taylor Cook lands director position at Covenant House after internship in chancellor’s office
Cook assisted with coordinating and communicating events and activities around the 60th anniversary and Transform UMSL as the project management and communications intern.
New graduate Kristen McDonald lands on right career path with degrees in data science and analysis, economics
McDonald started her college career majoring in nursing at MU before transferring to UMSL. She graduated cum laude and is on track to earn her master’s degree in economics next spring.
New graduate Kristen McDonald lands on right career path with degrees in data science and analysis, economics
McDonald started her college career majoring in nursing at MU before transferring to UMSL. She graduated cum laude and is on track to earn her master’s degree in economics next spring.
New graduate Kristen McDonald lands on right career path with degrees in data science and analysis, economics
McDonald started her college career majoring in nursing at MU before transferring to UMSL. She graduated cum laude and is on track to earn her master’s degree in economics next spring.
Biology graduate Jesse Laseter getting acclimated in new job with Missouri Department of Conservation
Laseter, who graduated magna cum laude, is working as a resource management technician as part of the department’s community conservation team.
Biology graduate Jesse Laseter getting acclimated in new job with Missouri Department of Conservation
Laseter, who graduated magna cum laude, is working as a resource management technician as part of the department’s community conservation team.
Biology graduate Jesse Laseter getting acclimated in new job with Missouri Department of Conservation
Laseter, who graduated magna cum laude, is working as a resource management technician as part of the department’s community conservation team.
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Civic organization recognizes student for mentoring work
UMSL anthropology student LaVell Monger was recently named Mentee of the Year by the 100 Black Men of Metropolitan St. Louis.
UMSL senior gives Missouri Reverse Transfer Program high marks
Public policy major Mark Stone was impressed with the simplicity of a new statewide program to increase the number of Missourians with an associate degree.
Fechner lecturer helps explain others’ points of view
Alexandra Horowitz, author of “On Looking” and The New York Times bestseller “Inside of a Dog,” spoke at UMSL for the College of Optometry’s 13th annual Fechner Day lecture.
Laverne Cox wows crowd, calls for love, conversation
“I stand before you today a proud African American transgender woman,” the acclaimed actress and transgender advocate told a sold-out crowd at UMSL on Oct. 21.
National award-winning novelist visits MFA students
Award-winning debut novelist Anthony Marra (left) visited UMSL MFA in Creative Writing students including Matthew Vivian and read at the St. Louis County Library Headquarters.
Purnell, Roccia among NCI’s 30 Leaders in Their Thirties honorees
Andrea Purnell (left) is the director of communications and the arts for the Missouri Institute of Mental Health, and Miriam Roccia is the assistant dean of students.
Eye on UMSL: Autumn sun
The sun returns from a lengthy hiatus as Mackenzie Jo Remmert, a sophomore social work major, sits cross-legged among the Quad’s fallen leaves on warm and lovely autumn day.
Witnessing on-campus political debate gives UMSL students immeasurable experience
St. Louis County executive hopefuls and UMSL alumni Rick Stream and Steve Stenger battled over a number of topics of the St. Louis Public Radio-sponsored event.
Chancellor Tom George discusses UMSL’s role in community
He was a guest Oct. 9 on the St. Louis Public Radio program “St. Louis on the Air.”
A message from Chancellor Tom George on Ferguson
“For many, Ferguson is no longer a place. It’s now a symbol that elicits a broad spectrum of issues of global proportion.”
Students sing UMSL’s praises in Founders Dinner video
Adrian Liddell was one of several students who discussed why they chose UMSL in a new video that made its debut at the annual Founders Dinner on Sept. 26.
Alumni honorees stand out in chosen fields
The 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients include (from left) William Shiang, Claire M. Schenk, Barbara Willis Brown, Robert “Bobby” Norfolk and Kathleen Boyd-Fenger.
Eye on UMSL: GardenVille
Through the Catholic Newman Center, UMSL alumnus Matthew Hubbard and student volunteers (from left) Janelle Miller, Sharee Chambers and Meagan Burwell work in the community garden known as GardenVille.
George Paz: A leader who delivers
A UMSL alumnus, Paz, BSBA 1982, is the CEO of Express Scripts.
Athletics Q&A with junior midfielder DJ Bednar
The UMSL student, who is pursuing an engineering degree, discussed what brought him to UMSL, his role on the field and what goes through his mind on a game-winning goal.
Biology PhD student awarded grant for field research in Guyana
Gyanpriya Maharaj received the grant from The Rufford Foundation, based in the U.K., which helped finance her field research this summer.
UMSL child center teacher receives Early Childhood Education Award
Estella Rash, a childcare assistant at UMSL, received the award from The St. Louis American Foundation Sept. 12.
Eye on UMSL: Suited up
This foursome took to the Busch Stadium field for UMSL Night at the Ballpark prior to the start of the Sept. 12 St. Louis Cardinals game.
Maltby wins Chancellor’s Award for innovation in teaching
The associate teaching professor of English will receive the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence for a Non-Tenure Track Faculty Member on Sept. 17 during the State of the University Address.
UMSL poet earns Gerald and Deanne Gitner Excellence in Teaching Award
Shane Seely, assistant professor of English at UMSL, will receive the award Sept. 17 at the State of the University Address.
Chancellor’s award winner is expert in financial planning
Gary Flotron, senior lecturer of finance at UMSL, will receive the 2014 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence for a Part-Time Faculty Member on Sept. 17 at the State of the University Address.
Shatera Davis is UMSL’s student in new congressional internship
She was UMSL’s first participant in a new program that places students in congressional offices for internships.
UMSL bat study featured on NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’
Bat hunting in a cemetery after dark sounds like a plot ripped from a horror movie. But it was all part of a recent scientific excursion involving a UMSL group.
UMSL senior is national Miss Amazing
Katie Johnson, a communication major, took the crown in a pageant for women with disabilities. She had won the Missouri title in April.
Galápagos hawks hand down lice like family heirlooms, study finds
The group of researchers includes Patricia Parker, the E. Desmond Lee Professor in Zoological Studies and chair of the Department of Biology at UMSL.
Undergrad research grant fosters young scientist’s passion
Kaylyn Bauer, a UMSL junior majoring in biochemistry and biotechnology, spent the summer interning at the Danforth Plant Science Center.
Grant spurs undergrad’s research toward better batteries, vehicles
Senior physics major Henry Hamper eyes a batch of the nanoporous carbon material he makes for research projects aimed at improving batteries and hydrogen-powered vehicles.
UMSL alumnus named state girls track coach of the year
Sheldon Webster (front with medal), BSEd 1986, is the girls track and field coach at McCluer North High School in Florissant, Mo.
Head of UMSL Museum Studies Program honored for ‘distinguished career’
Jay Rounds has been recognized by the Association of Midwest Museums for his decades of contribution to the field and legacy of shaping students into museum professionals.
Ideas Island sprouts creative collaboration for education scholars
“If you could have your own island to yourself, what would you create?” Assistant Professor Ralph Cordova responded, and then got to find out first hand.
New scholarship helps push summer enrollment above 5,000
The new Triton Summer Scholarship helped soon-to-be senior Tempestt Burel and 160 fellow UMSL students make the most of the university’s summer course offerings and stay on track toward graduation.
Check out the new UMSL website
Above is a glimpse of part of the new home page, umsl.edu.
UMSL artists, events, alumni among best in St. Louis
Honorees include the Arianna String Quartet, which was named Best Chamber Music Group.
Henry Ballard, 70, recent UMSL graduate
“I’d rather be a failure than a quitter,” Ballard said. “You can never quit in life. You have to have a goal.”
Legendary UMSL Basketball Coach, Athletics Director Chuck Smith passes away
Smith, 1927-2014, was an inaugural inductee to the UMSL Sports Hall of Fame in 2001 and was inducted into the Missouri Basketball Hall of Fame in 1990.
St. Louis teens make strides during UMSL Summer Academy
Scores of local high school students turned their summer break into a time of serious and memorable growth by taking part in the academy, offered by the UMSL Bridge Program.
‘Topping off’ ceremony marks progress as Rec Center takes shape
Eight months into the 20-month project that will culminate in the Rec Center’s 2015 opening, the facility’s framework is now complete.
UMSL educator Maggie Peeno receives art teaching’s highest honor
She was recently named a distinguished fellow by the National Art Education Association.
Samuel Mugaya lands nursing job, devoted to helping African homeland
The native Ugandan graduated in May with a BSN from UMSL’s College of Nursing and has accepted a position at Missouri Baptist Medical Center in west St. Louis County.
Eye on UMSL: Forest Park
Theodore Link’s “Plan of Forest Park” (1876) is one of scores of maps that are being catalogued, conserved and displayed for the first time at UMSL’s St. Louis Mercantile Library.
UMSL security guard receives Boy Scouts service award
Bob Malon earned the Silver Beaver Award for his 16 years of exceptional leadership and service to scouting in the region.
Alumnus Chris Melde reminisces on recent return to UMSL, criminology faculty
The criminologist visited his alma mater earlier this spring to speak at the annual Youth Violence Prevention Conference.
How is a news organization like a university?
St. Louis Public Radio Editor Margaret Wolf Frievogel discusses the similarities in her recent commentary.
Learn the music business from legendary promoter Steve Schankman
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.
From classroom to career: Latest wave of optometry graduates enter work force
Thirty-nine students graduated from the program in May, all of them with jobs already lined up in the optometry field.
Grant allows science students to get hands-on lab experience
Susan Monnig received a $1,000 research grant from UMSL’s College of Arts and Sciences last semester to study a species of cyanobacteria, a blue-green algae.
UMSL’s biology department embraces state-of-the-art technology
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.
Criminologist Finn-Aage Esbensen named ASC Fellow
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.
Nermin Zimic wins AIGA award for genocide project
After graduating from UMSL in May, he’s already started working as an assistant art director at Falk Harrison, a brand communication agency based in St. Louis.
Kat Riemer walks in to gallery gig after earning art degree
The recent UMSL graduate gets to earn a living in the art world while gaining experience and furthering her knowledge.
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