The theme of this year’s celebration is “Tritons in the Sky,” and the schedule includes a mix of classic activities and new events such as a campus wellness fair.
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UMSL campus ready to shine during Homecoming 2025
The theme of this year’s celebration is “Tritons in the Sky,” and the schedule includes a mix of classic activities and new events such as a campus wellness fair.
UMSL campus ready to shine during Homecoming 2025
The theme of this year’s celebration is “Tritons in the Sky,” and the schedule includes a mix of classic activities and new events such as a campus wellness fair.
UMSL campus ready to shine during Homecoming 2025
The theme of this year’s celebration is “Tritons in the Sky,” and the schedule includes a mix of classic activities and new events such as a campus wellness fair.
Longtime Optometry faculty members Dr. Ed Bennett and Dr. Vinita Henry recognized for contribution to field of contact lenses
Bennett received the CLMA Medal of Honor, while Henry received an award named for Bennett himself: the Dr. Edward S. Bennett GPLI Educator of the Year award.
Longtime Optometry faculty members Dr. Ed Bennett and Dr. Vinita Henry recognized for contribution to field of contact lenses
Bennett received the CLMA Medal of Honor, while Henry received an award named for Bennett himself: the Dr. Edward S. Bennett GPLI Educator of the Year award.
Longtime Optometry faculty members Dr. Ed Bennett and Dr. Vinita Henry recognized for contribution to field of contact lenses
Bennett received the CLMA Medal of Honor, while Henry received an award named for Bennett himself: the Dr. Edward S. Bennett GPLI Educator of the Year award.
Missouri Department of Economic Development providing $9.55M in funding to API Innovation Center, UMSL
The new funding will support research and development in the center’s new state-of-the-art lab, which is scheduled to open next month in UMSL’s Science Complex.
Missouri Department of Economic Development providing $9.55M in funding to API Innovation Center, UMSL
The new funding will support research and development in the center’s new state-of-the-art lab, which is scheduled to open next month in UMSL’s Science Complex.
Missouri Department of Economic Development providing $9.55M in funding to API Innovation Center, UMSL
The new funding will support research and development in the center’s new state-of-the-art lab, which is scheduled to open next month in UMSL’s Science Complex.
Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Observance celebrates work to build ‘beloved community’
Fredrika Newton, the president of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, delivered the keynote address.
Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Observance celebrates work to build ‘beloved community’
Fredrika Newton, the president of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, delivered the keynote address.
Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Observance celebrates work to build ‘beloved community’
Fredrika Newton, the president of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, delivered the keynote address.
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Emerson’s ‘Ferguson Forward’ plan creates scholarships for local grads
On Sept. 18, Emerson chairman and CEO David Farr announced a five-year commitment of $1.5 million to provide scholarships to UMSL students from Ferguson, Mo., and surrounding communities.
Campus celebrates Constitution Day
UMSL students, staff and faculty showed their patriotic stripes Wednesday during the university’s annual event.
Schwantes to discuss pivotal era in St. Louis history
The interconnected history of St. Louis, railroads and commerce has led Carlos Schwantes, the St. Louis Mercantile Library Endowed Professor in Transportation Studies, on a lifelong journey of discovery.
Eye on UMSL: Field study
UMSL biology student Robert Perks enjoys the natural landscape and canopy of the North Campus Quad to study between classes.
Eye on UMSL: Reaching out
UMSL staff members deliver items to St. Stephen’s Food Pantry in Ferguson. The local food pantry has experienced a spike in demand as a result of recent events.
Endowed directorship honors Mercantile Library’s tireless leader
More than $2 million of the record-breaking $31.2 million contributed to UMSL during the past fiscal year helped fund the John Neal Hoover Endowed Mercantile Library Executive Directorship.
UMSL sets new record for gifts and pledges
Donors contributed a collective $31.2 million during the fiscal year that ended June 30.
UMSL artists, events, alumni among best in St. Louis
Honorees include the Arianna String Quartet, which was named Best Chamber Music Group.
Alumna Kim Hudson gets morning show on FOX 2
She moved into the high-profile position as host of the “AM Show,” replacing Tim Ezell.
Teens sing their hearts out at Acappellooza
The camp attracted 80 students from grades 9-12 to the UMSL campus. It was developed to provide opportunities for devoted singers to get experience they might not get at home.
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.
Friends, faculty, staff honored by UMSL Fine Arts and Communication
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.
UMSL commencement: 5 ceremonies, nearly 1,600 graduates, 6 honorary degrees
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.
Poetry gets wild on UMSL campus
Seventeen spots on the University of Missouri–St. Louis have become miniature art sanctuaries for the summer.
UMSL faculty members share St. Louis knowledge as city turns 250
UMSL celebrated St. Louis’ 250 years and the birth of Louis IX with the two-day conference “St. Louis Metromorphosis: The Significance of a City Across the Centuries.”
Women in the Arts seeks proposals for 3rd conference
This November, the University of Missouri–St. Louis will host a premier event designed to recognize and promote the accomplishments of women in the arts.
Buildings, national rankings top UMSL chancellor’s report
With $120 million in construction and economic development on and around campus, more faculty awards and nationally ranked programs, “UMSL is stronger than ever,” Chancellor Tom George told his constituents.
UM System President endorses Total Rewards Task Force recommendations, opening a dialogue on medical, retirement and other benefits
On April 10, University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfef endorsed the Total Rewards Ad Hoc Task Force recommendations, which were also presented to the UM Board of Curators.
UMSL, Metro launch University Square, dedicate new sculpture
Nearly 200 people who gathered on the UMSL campus April 17 for two celebrations.
Civic-minded donors contribute $3 million to help fund unique media merger for deeper, expanded coverage
Twenty-four individuals, four foundations and two trusts have contributed to support the expanded news operation of St. Louis Public Radio, the local NPR affiliate licensed to UMSL.
Thank you: UMSL students, donors celebrate scholarships
More than 200 people, equally divided between scholarship recipients and donors, met over lunch last Friday. When it was all over, there were tears, smiles and grand applause.
UMSL English professor honored with prestigious Irish studies position
Eamonn Wall will serve as the 2014 Charles A. Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University for the spring semester.
UMSL to host annual Global Game Jam
Are you a gamer? Programmer? Designer? Or just enjoy creating a virtual world? If so, the 2014 Global Game Jam could be for you.
‘True, loyal friend’ receives UMSL’s Chancellor’s Medallion
Anna Mayer Beck’s love of all things German was nurtured by her immigrant father. And for most of her life she has honored his memory by sharing that rich culture with thousands of St. Louisans.
UMSL honorees reflect commitment to St. Louis
Carol Valenta and Steven Schankman each followed their passion and in the process enriched the lives of hundreds of thousands of St. Louisans. For their commitment to their professions and their community the University of Missouri–St. Louis conferred honorary degrees on them during commencement ceremonies Dec. 14. Nearly 600 students received degrees during three ceremonies.
UMSL supporter played big role in creating Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization
Though many Americans have not heard of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the group finally got its deserved time in the limelight last weekend when it collected the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. University of Missouri–St. Louis supporter Will Carpenter is particularly pleased for the group’s recognition, which makes sense, seeing as how he played an integral role in creating the treaty that lead to the formation of the OPCW.
UMSL collaborative brings dance, music to area schools
Merengue music blares out of a boom box as a group of about 40 fifth-graders at Buder Elementary School in south St. Louis walk arm-in-arm into the school gymnasium. The curriculum for the next hour – ballroom dancing.
Will and Hellen Carpenter’s love of education leads to long relationship with UMSL
If Will Carpenter was about 10 years younger and from St. Louis, there’s a good chance he would have attended the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Instead, he grew up during the Great Depression in Moorhead, Miss.
Eye on UMSL: Global discussion
Russian delegates from the Open World Program visited with students and faculty from UMSL’s School of Social Work on Nov. 21. The visitors were hosted by the World Affairs Council of St. Louis and included seven delegates focusing on social service issues and an interpreter. The visitors sat down with UMSL students and faculty to learn about social service programs and agencies as well as how resources and funding are provided, particularly in issues of children and families. The Open World Program brings young political and civic leaders from Russia and nine post-Soviet states to the United States for short-term professional trips.
UMSL volunteers add ‘color’ to campus
The University of Missouri–St. Louis campus received a little “color and personality” this month thanks to several volunteers.
Tony Thompson golfs to give St. Louis students a fighting chance
600 yards. Water on the left. Sand on the right. High rough everywhere else. Just plain daunting.
UMSL’s Month of Community Giving begins
Give a little, help a lot. It’s the University of Missouri–St. Louis’ Month of Community Giving, an annual campus giving campaign that benefits the causes of the United Way of Greater St. Louis and the Community Health Charities of Kansas and Missouri. Combined, they are community partners to more than 250 nonprofit organizations.
Chancellor Tom George honored for 10 years as UMSL’s top leader
This year’s Founders Dinner was a night of celebrating milestones. The occasion served as the Jubilee birthday party for the University of Missouri–St. Louis. And the university’s top leader, Tom George, was surprised and nearly brought to tears by a tribute to his 10 years as chancellor.
Learn from experts, enhance skills with UMSL’s Write Stuff Certificate Program
The College of Arts and Sciences and School of Professional & Continuing Studies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis announced its Write Stuff Certificate Program for the upcoming fall and spring semesters. Courses and seminars will begin Sept. 10 and continue through June. The program aims to improve participants’ writing skills as well as their knowledge of the business of writing.
Formula for success: ’50 Years of Great Chemistry’
Joseph Bono graduated from the University of Missouri–St. Louis in 1969 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. He shares many of the same memories that others have of UMSL’s early years. So, when he traveled from his home in Virginia last week to attend the reunion, “50 Years of Great Chemistry,” Bono recalled the old clubhouse, classes in the laundromat and the opening of Benton Hall.
Committee of 28: The group that helped turn a golf course into a university
By the fall of 1959, the Normandy (Mo.) School District’s oft-discussed desire to develop a junior college appeared close to a reality. The district had acquired the needed land, but was now faced with an important question: How does a public school district establish an institution of higher education when elementary and secondary education are what it knows?
House Bill 153: 78 words that have benefited hundreds of thousands of people
The year was 1963, and it was all falling into place – the people of Normandy, Mo., were working to convey a piece of...
AT&T gift to UMSL’s Opportunity Scholars now totals $500,000
Eric’el Johnson has set her sights on being a professor of electrical engineering. Her classmate Ellen Vehige wants to build bridges as a civil engineer. Thanks to the Opportunity Scholars Program at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, these two college freshmen could play a critical role in the St. Louis region’s future.
Normandy mayor recognized for service to UMSL
Patrick Green, mayor of Normandy, Mo., has worked together with the University of Missouri–St. Louis on a number of community improvement projects. For his efforts, he was recognized with the Presidential Citation Award for Outstanding Service to UMSL on Nov. 30 at the Alliance Awards Dinner in Columbia, Mo.
Homegrown help: UMSL finds increasing support from alumni and St. Louis-area friends
The success of the Gateway for Greatness Campaign is in many respects a coming-of-age story for the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
UMSL stays ahead of the curve with grant-funded research, enhanced learning spaces, endowed professorships
The University of Missouri–St. Louis set and attained many fundraising objectives over the course of its seven-year,...
A grand ambition realized: Building puts UMSL in media, entertainment district
A celebration weekend with more than 800 students, alumni, faculty and friends marked the grand opening of the University of Missouri–St. Louis’ newest building – UMSL at Grand Center.
Unwanted vehicles help support teaching, learning at UMSL
The University of Missouri–St. Louis offers a new hassle-free way to support teaching, learning and research. Launched...
Pott Inland Waterways Library to honor author, photographer
Earl Swift travels the world and writes about what he sees and hears. For his powerful narratives and meticulous...
Eye on UMSL: Barnett Memorial Plaza
St. Louis-area community leaders joined University of Missouri–St. Louis alumni, students, faculty and staff on Oct....
Golf tournament raises funds for Athletics
University of Missouri–St. Louis alumnus David Archibald (BSBA 2005), Matt Hellebusch and Kelsey Cline won the third annual UMSL Tritons Golf Tournament. But the biggest winner was the Department of Athletics at UMSL. Proceeds from the event went toward the department’s 11 sports programs.
Eye on UMSL: Lee Medal for Philanthropy
The University of Missouri–St. Louis held its annual Founders Dinner on Oct. 2 at The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis in Clayton, Mo. The event attracted 800 alumni and friends who celebrated the successful completion of the Gateway for Greatness Campaign, the university’s first comprehensive capital campaign. More than $154 million in private funding was raised over seven years to support scholarships, facilities, programs and faculty positions.
Campus trail officially opens with lots of ribbons, bikes
Sunshine, ice cream, balloons and bicycles created a festive air to the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Great Rivers Greenway Trail Thursday.
Golf tournament to raise funds for Athletics
The Department of Athletics at the University of Missouri–St. Louis comprises 11 successful sports programs. And to help ensure the programs continue to flourish, the department will hold its third annual Tritons Golf Tournament Sept. 21 at Norwood Hills Country Club in Jennings, Mo. The fun-filled day of golf and socializing with friends and alumni will support UMSL athletics with all proceeds going toward the department’s 11 sports programs.
Education student shows real character, promise
Fusing the relationship between the arts and social-emotional growth has been a passion of Alena Tunprasert for many years.
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