Six teams worked during the all-day event to develop safety and security applications reflecting the day’s theme, “Secure the Future.”
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Six teams worked during the all-day event to develop safety and security applications reflecting the day’s theme, “Secure the Future.”
Six teams worked during the all-day event to develop safety and security applications reflecting the day’s theme, “Secure the Future.”
Six teams worked during the all-day event to develop safety and security applications reflecting the day’s theme, “Secure the Future.”
Six teams worked during the all-day event to develop safety and security applications reflecting the day’s theme, “Secure the Future.”
The workshop provided an opportunity to showcase the technology tools available in UMSL’s Geospatial Advanced Technology Lab, which opened this semester.
The workshop provided an opportunity to showcase the technology tools available in UMSL’s Geospatial Advanced Technology Lab, which opened this semester.
The workshop provided an opportunity to showcase the technology tools available in UMSL’s Geospatial Advanced Technology Lab, which opened this semester.
Fifth-year senior Cyril Henault was tied with Missouri S&T’s Carl Miltun for the lead through two rounds of the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship on Sunday in Smithville, Missouri.
Fifth-year senior Cyril Henault was tied with Missouri S&T’s Carl Miltun for the lead through two rounds of the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship on Sunday in Smithville, Missouri.
Fifth-year senior Cyril Henault was tied with Missouri S&T’s Carl Miltun for the lead through two rounds of the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship on Sunday in Smithville, Missouri.
UMSL was one of only 110 schools worldwide to make the publication’s list, which considered factors such as accreditation and international standing.
UMSL was one of only 110 schools worldwide to make the publication’s list, which considered factors such as accreditation and international standing.
UMSL was one of only 110 schools worldwide to make the publication’s list, which considered factors such as accreditation and international standing.
Benjamin Taylor was shocked when he was notified that he’d been selected by the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants as the Lead and Enhance the Accounting Profession Student of the Month for June 2012. He was even more surprised when he learned a month later he’d been chosen as the 2011-12 LEAP Student of the Year.
Each week, the Department of Athletics at the University of Missouri–St. Louis compiles a roundup of how the various UMSL Tritons teams have fared. Click on the headings below for an up-to-date look at each Tritons team.
Looking for an alternative to handing candy out to ghouls and goblins this Halloween night? Join the University of Missouri–St. Louis Jazz Combos at 7:30 p.m. Oct 31 in the E. Desmond and Mary Ann Lee Theater at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at UMSL. The night of unforgettable jazz will take the audience from Miles Davis and John Coltrane to Weather Report.
Lydia Mason, a senior nursing major at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, gives Patrick Osborne, associate teaching professor of biology at UMSL, a flu vaccination Oct. 10 in the J.C. Penney Building/Conference Center, while Mason’s classmate Kaeleigh Sneed looks on.
About 170 new teachers converged on the J.C. Penney Building/Conference Center Saturday (October 13) for the fall Beginning Teacher Assistance Program at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
A new production at the University of Missouri–St. Louis will take a raw, unfiltered look into the world of poverty in the United States. “In the Blood,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, follows the story of Hester as she struggles to provide for her five fatherless children. Students with UMSL’s Department of Theatre, Dance and Media Studies will perform the play. Jacqueline Thompson, visiting assistant professor of theater at UMSL, will direct the production, which is described as a modern-day reinterpretation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.”
The Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, city of St. Louis and St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department are now in their eighth month of working together to address public safety issues in the city. So how’s it going? That’s what will be discussed in an Applied Research Seminar presented by the Public Policy Research Center at UMSL.
Each week, the Department of Athletics at the University of Missouri–St. Louis compiles a roundup of how the various UMSL Tritons teams have fared. Click on the headings below for an up-to-date look at each Tritons team.
Adding interdisciplinary learning opportunities and fulfilling career-driven educational needs are what spurred the University of Missouri–St. Louis to create four new academic certificate programs, according to university officials.
The University Wind Ensemble will perform its first concert of the season at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 in the Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
The Gateway for Greatness Campaign at the University of Missouri–St. Louis concluded this summer after surpassing an initial $100 million fundraising goal and a subsequent $150 million goal. The university raised more than $154 million through gifts by 57,900 donors. Of those contributors to the campaign, 257 gave more than $100,000, and 31 gave more than $1 million.
Bands in the quad, movies on the lawn, a shopping cart parade, tailgating, men’s and women’s soccer, a king and queen, dinner and dancing at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel in St. Louis.
Each week, the Department of Athletics at the University of Missouri–St. Louis compiles a roundup of how the various UMSL Tritons teams have fared. Click on the headings below for an up-to-date look at each Tritons team.
Patrick Ream, a senior goalkeeper for the University of Missouri–St. Louis men’s soccer team, held opponents scoreless over 188 minutes and 42 seconds of play last week. The two shutouts also ran his streak to four consecutive games and led to him being named the Great Lakes Valley Conference Men’s Soccer Player of the Week. He is only the second men’s soccer player to earn the distinction.
Jim Henry (far right), associate professor of music and director of choral studies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, leads his students through a choral practice on Sept. 17 in the Provincial House on the university’s South Campus. The students are (from left) Adam Wirth, Minerva Keller, Annie Graham, Charlie Kinnison, Rachel Becknell, Tommy Edler, Andrea Lair, Chaz McPeek, Anthony Eck and Mason Scott.
Each week, the Department of Athletics at the University of Missouri–St. Louis compiles a roundup of how the various UMSL Tritons teams have fared. Click on the headings below for an up-to-date look at each Tritons team.
As U.S. military presence winds down in Iraq and Afghanistan a whole generation of veterans is returning home and enrolling in universities. Recognizing this trend, the University of Missouri-St. Louis has established a new Veterans Center dedicated to making the transition from military to student life as smooth as possible for veterans coming into the classroom.
Sunshine, ice cream, balloons and bicycles created a festive air to the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Great Rivers Greenway Trail Thursday.
In October, a group of University of Missouri–St. Louis piano students will embark on a whirlwind trip to Russia that will include performances, lectures and of course sightseeing.
Each week, the Department of Athletics at the University of Missouri–St. Louis compiles a roundup of how the various UMSL Tritons teams have fared. Click on the headings below for an up-to-date look at each Tritons team.
The University of Missouri–St. Louis women’s tennis team opened the fall portion of its schedule Friday with the weekendlong Lynn Imergoot Invitational, hosted by Washington University in St. Louis. Under the direction of 11th year head coach Rick Gyllenborg, the UMSL Tritons returned three players from last year’s squad, which finished with a 9-7 overall record.
Students study the “UMSL geese” from the hillside overlooking the ponds on North Campus during their Animal Behavior Laboratory class. The students are (from left) Rebecca Dickerson, Jacob Franck, teacher assistant Allisyn-Marie Gillet, Cristen Gillett, Shelamae Paytocon and Stephanie Bladdick.
The University of Missouri–St. Louis women’s golf team has concluded each of the last three seasons in the NCAA East Regional, making the program one of the school’s most decorated in recent years. The UMSL Tritons began their trek toward a fourth straight NCAA tournament berth earlier this week with a ninth-place finish at the Smoky Mountain Intercollegiate, hosted by Carson-Newman College in Sevleirville, Tenn.
The 2012 University of Missouri–St. Louis men’s golf season teed off on Sept. 9 with a win over Maryville University (Town and Country, Mo.) to retain the Arch Cup. UMSL returned four players from last year’s squad and will once again be under the direction Troy Halterman, in his fourth year as the program’s head coach.
A few bicyclists have been zipping along the new trail and through the underpass on the University of Missouri–St. Louis campus. Officially, the new St. Vincent-Cross Campus Trail will open Sept 20 with a party, rides on the new trail and a chance to win a new bike.
Ever watch a television show and see some painting or photograph in the background of a scene and wonder, ‘where did they get that?’
Under the direction of 17th-year head coach Rick Gyllenborg, the University of Missouri–St. Louis Tritons have returned five players from last year’s men’s tennis team, which finished with a 10-8 overall record.
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Stephanie Sabin has been honing her artistic skills in between her biology studies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. This month, she will show off the fruits of her labor at two art shows in St. Louis.
University of Missouri–St. Louis engineering students Dan Denton (left) and Jason Arnold study outside the university’s Academic Center for Mathematics and Writing (222 Social Sciences & Business Building) on Aug. 30.
Each week, the Department of Athletics at the University of Missouri–St. Louis compiles a roundup of how the various UMSL Tritons teams have fared. Click on the headings below for an up-to-date look at each Tritons team.
There is no doubt about it. The 2012 University of Missouri–St. Louis women’s soccer team is young. With just two seniors on the roster, the majority of the team is composed of underclassmen, including 11 freshmen.
The 2012 edition of the University of Missouri St. Louis men’s soccer team will include some old faces and plenty of new ones as well. Head coach Dan King, who enters his 12th season, returns 17 players from last year’s 8-5-4 team, including five starters. Additionally, he welcomes 11 newcomers, including seven true freshmen.
The University of Missouri–St. Louis volleyball team will welcome five newcomers to a squad that returns seven players from last year’s team. The UMSL Tritons are coming off a 19-9 record in 2011, including a 13-5 Great Lakes Valley Conference mark, and are looking for another strong season.
Students participate at the opening reception of “Workbook” in the Visio Gallery by filling in a paint by numbers mural of Georges Seurat’s “Bathers at Asnieres.” The exhibit is an interactive live art show with the walls of the gallery covered with workbook activities. Gallery Visio is a student-run gallery at UMSL. It’s located in 170 Millennium Student Center at UMSL’s North Campus. Regular hours are from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
Jonathan McMiller sees himself as a sponge. “I want to absorb as much as I can,” McMiller said. “Every opportunity I have to learn something or experience something, just gives me a greater understanding of the world.”
Nathan Halley is a computer guy. It’s in the University of Missouri–St. Louis staffer’s blood, something passed down to him from his grandfather Hardy Fuchs, who founded the Information Services & Technology department at Washington University in St. Louis.
John-Mark Scott, a graduate of Hazelwood Central High School in St. Louis County, found his passion in an accounting class in high school. After applying to the accounting program at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, he was pleasantly surprised to be selected as an Enterprise Opportunity Driver Scholarship recipient.
High school graduates are on the decline in Missouri. But the economy – not demographics – appears to be the primary factor affecting enrollment at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. And the campus appears to be holding its own.
Freshmen Move-In Day is a family affair. Negar Adl-Tabatabai (gray and white striped shirt) moves into her room in Oak Hall on Aug. 15 with the help of (from left): her father, Abbas Adl-Tabatabai; uncle Ali Hazemi; mother, Farnaz Fayaz; aunt Fariba Fayaz; and cousin Layla Hazemi.
The countdown’s begun. Fall semester classes at the University of Missouri–St. Louis start Monday and campus activity has moved to warp speed in anticipation of the students’ arrival. A few renovations and office moves are still under way.
The University of Missouri–St. Louis makes a significant impact on the St. Louis area. Stories about the university, its scholars and their expertise are often covered by local and national news media.
A student-guided tour of the University of Missouri–St. Louis last year sealed the deal for Rachel DeKanick. The freshman psychology major from Minneapolis had several universities on her short list, but the UMSL tour won her over.
Students from Rikkyo University in Tokyo found the large tables in the St. Louis Mercantile Library a perfect place to work on their homework. The undergraduate students, all business majors, are participants in a monthlong program at UMSL. They attend classes, visit the region’s cultural and entertainment attractions, and spend a weekend with a host family to familiarize and learn about American customs.
Chantal Rivadeneyra yearned to learn French with a native’s accent. Scott Morrissey hungered for a foreign adventure. And Jack Tucker wanted to refine his Spanish skills.
Nearly 300 University of Missouri–St. Louis students will experience a summer highlight Saturday (Aug. 4) when they receive their college diplomas. Two commencement ceremonies will be held in the Mark Twain Athletic & Fitness Center on North Campus at UMSL.
Nine-year-old Terrill Lyons Jr. stood in front of a crowded room in the basement of the Ward E. Barnes Library on the South Campus of the University of Missouri–St. Louis recently to recite a poem about himself.
Each new Natural Bridge issue has already been read many times over before the University of Missouri–St. Louis literary journal reaches the hands of its subscribers. Issue No. 27, released last week, was no exception.
Clocking many hours doing research and analysis can be a solitary experience. Often times leaving Mary Lynn Longsworth, a senior anthropology major at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, wondering if anyone besides her could be interested in the work she’s doing.
Fusing the relationship between the arts and social-emotional growth has been a passion of Alena Tunprasert for many years.