Transfer Tuesdays offer advice, new beginnings

Jun 19, 2013

They have lots of reasons for returning to college. They need a degree to get ahead. They haven’t forgotten their dream to be a teacher, accountant, scientist, nurse. They all share a certain drive and maturity level. They want to finish the job.

UMSL staff member, alumni named ‘30 Under 30’

Jun 13, 2013

A University of Missouri–St. Louis staff member and three alumni are among the young professionals being honored in the St. Louis Business Journal’s 2013 “30 Under 30” class.

Career Services director gives advice to upcoming, new graduates

Jun 12, 2013

Teresa Balestreri, director of career services at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, said in a recent West (St. Louis County) Newsmagazine article that upcoming and recent graduates should plan ahead, gain experience and take a targeted approach.

Library tales of ghosts, termites, a swim at lunch

Jun 7, 2013

Celebrating the life of an institution involves the work of the many individuals who helped create it. Librarians at the University of Missouri–St. Louis played a critical role in its development over the last 50 years. As part of the ongoing celebration of the UMSL Jubilee, the library staff created a video filled with vintage photographs and memories – of ghosts, termites and much mo

Media Coverage: May 2013

Jun 5, 2013

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St. Louis Public Radio’s Veronique LaCapra named PRX STEM competition winner

Jun 4, 2013

St. Louis Public Radio | 90.7 KWMU science reporter Véronique LaCapra is one of the winners of a competition sponsored by the Public Radio Exchange, or PRX, to fund public radio stories about science, technology, engineering and math.

UMSL Veterans Center director talks transition back to civilian life

May 30, 2013

Ryan Barrett, interim director of the UMSL Veterans Center and a student pursuing a doctoral degree in political science at UMSL, discussed the center on May 28 on “St. Louis on the Air,” a program on St. Louis Public Radio.

Eye on UMSL: Toastmasters

May 29, 2013

John Barry (far right) was the Toastmaster of the day at the founding meeting of the UMSL Toastmaster’s Club. More than 30 people attended the meeting in the Alumni Center at Woods Hall.

UMSL experts discuss what to expect after graduation

May 21, 2013

Three University of Missouri–St. Louis scholars were recently featured on “Stay Tuned,” a weekly live program that airs on KETC (Channel 9). Keith Womer, dean of the College of Business Administration, Alan Byrd, dean of enrollment services, and Carl Hoagland, the Emerson Electric Endowed Professor of Teaching and Learning, took part in the show “Graduation Season: What’s Next?”

Multicultural festival celebrates UMSL’s rich diversity

May 15, 2013

Gospel choirs, an Afro-Cuban ensemble and dancing from Latin America, Hawaii and the Middle East lent a festive air May 2 to the University of Missouri–St. Louis. About 500 students, faculty, staff and community members were on hand to participate in a celebration of the many cultures found at UMSL..

Media Coverage: April 2013

May 14, 2013

Media Coverage highlights some of the top coverage, but does not serve as a comprehensive listing. This post will be updated with new highlights throughout the month and beyond.

PPRC photo exhibit focuses on Normandy School District

May 13, 2013

Past and present students of the Normandy (Mo.) School District are both the subjects and photographers for a new University of Missouri–St. Louis exhibit. Participants included Normandy High School alumni and current students at schools in the Normandy district. Their photos resulted in an exhibit that is the latest in the Public Policy Research Center Photography Project series.

Bob Sundvold introduced as UMSL head men’s basketball coach

May 8, 2013

Bob Sundvold, a veteran coach with more than 30 years of experience as both a head coach and assistant coach, has been named the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

Staff member wins UMSL Biggest Loser Weight Loss Challenge

Apr 30, 2013

Losing weight was serious business for Levi Locke. It wasn't just about looking slimmer; he was determined to be...

Media Coverage: March 2013

Apr 24, 2013

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.

Higher education group from Zimbabwe stops by UMSL

Apr 22, 2013

A delegation of higher education officials from Zimbabwe visited the University of Missouri–St. Louis on April 18 to learn about higher ed in the U.S.

Softball notches 30-win season, sets program GLVC wins record in sweep of UIS

Apr 22, 2013

The University of Missouri–St. Louis softball team swept visiting University of Illinois Springfield on April 21, posting wins of 3-0 and 6-5 in Great Lakes Valley Conference action.

KSDK features UMSL mail carrier Tom ‘The Hat Man’ Lange

Apr 12, 2013

St. Louis Cardinals fans are often called “the best fans in baseball.” And with a new season just underway, KSDK (Channel 5) once again turned to one of the best of the best fans to spotlight: Tom “The Hat Man” Lange.

UMSL men’s basketball wins national free throw title

Apr 11, 2013

The University of Missouri­–St. Louis men’s basketball team is the free throw shooting champion in NCAA Division II.

Media Coverage: February 2013

Apr 9, 2013

The University of Missouri–St. Louis makes a significant impact on the St. Louis area. Stories about the university,...

PPRC photo exhibit focuses on DEAF Inc.

Apr 1, 2013

A multi-generational group of people with ties to the Deaf Empowerment Awareness Foundation are both the subjects and photographers for a new University of Missouri–St. Louis exhibit. Participants included St. Louis-area deaf and hard-of-hearing people, American Sign Language interpreters and teachers who work with deaf students. Their photos result in an exhibit that is the latest in the Public Policy Research Center Photography Project series.

Devonna Smith named to All-GLVC First Team, All-GLVC Defensive Team

Mar 28, 2013

University of Missouri–St. Louis senior forward Devonna Smith (pictured) has been named to the All-Great Lakes Valley Conference First Team, as announced earlier this month by the league office. In addition, Smith was tabbed to the conference’s All-Defensive Team for a second straight year.

UMSL celebrates launch of Lifelong Learning

Mar 28, 2013

The University of Missouri–St. Louis Executive Leadership Consortium will celebrate the launch of its new program, Lifelong Learning @ UMSL. The launch event takes place at 2-4:30 p.m. April 5 at the J.C. Penney Building/Conference Center at UMSL. Lifelong Learning seeks to serve members ages 50 and older, a rapidly growing demographic with changing needs and demands.

St. Louis-area high schoolers honored for foreign language skills

Mar 28, 2013

All those hours studying a foreign language have paid off for a group of area high school students who were honored for their achievements by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

Media Coverage: January 2013

Mar 26, 2013

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.

Humanities Festival to explore effects of money

Mar 22, 2013

The Center for the Humanities at the University of Missouri–St. Louis will host a literary reading and discussion by novelist Martha McPhee and book critic Heller McAlpin at 10 a.m. on April 5 at UMSL’s J.C. Penney Building/Conference Center. The event is part of the 2013 Greater St. Louis Humanities Festival that will take place at venues throughout the St. Louis area. This year’s festival theme is “Money, Money! Need, Greed, and Generosity.”

UMSL Trailblazers ceremony hits another high note

Mar 14, 2013

St. Louis entertainers Carolbeth True and Deborah Scharn provided a lively beginning to this year’s Trailblazers ceremony at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Their renditions of Helen Reddy’s 1971 hit ”I Am Woman” and “I’m A Woman,” popularized by Peggy Lee in 1962, had the audience clapping and singing along

Alumnus Prince Ea talks Nosh rapping, new album

Feb 28, 2013

Richard Williams started getting serious about hip-hop in high school. But it was at the University of Missouri–St. Louis that he discovered he had something to say as a rapper, according to an interview with St. Louis Public Radio | 90.7 KWMU.

Put It Out Day: UMSL’s tobacco-free campaign to focus on polite peer pressure

Feb 18, 2013

It started with an email. Signage and student volunteers passing out nicotine gum soon followed. Now, in its third stage, the UMSL Seriously Tobacco-Free campaign gets personal with Put It Out Day on Thursday, Feb. 21.

Discussion to focus on growing immigrant population in St. Louis

Feb 14, 2013

International migration is a key reason the St. Louis region has not lost population in the most recent census. While the region’s changing demographics make opportunities, they also create challenges. A panel discussion at the University of Missouri–St. Louis will explore the many facets of St. Louis’ growing immigrant population.

Eye on UMSL: Bonfire

Feb 12, 2013

A group of University of Missouri–St. Louis students, faculty and staff warm up Feb. 6 at a bonfire outside the Millennium Student Center. They were on hand for the dedication of “UMSL in Glass,” a glass-block sculpture conceived by students in the Department of Theatre, Dance and Media Studies for the UMSL Jubilee.

‘UMSL in Glass’ wall dedicated at sunset ceremony

Feb 11, 2013

The idea grew from a class last spring in advertising techniques taught by Kristy Tucciarone, associate teaching professor of media studies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. At the time, the university was planning the yearlong Jubilee celebration of its 50th anniversary in 2013.

Media Coverage: December 2012

Jan 28, 2013

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.

UMSL fires up campaign to maintain tobacco-free campus

Jan 28, 2013

In an effort to help students, faculty and staff kick their tobacco habits and maintain a tobacco-free campus, the...

More than 230 volunteers turn out for UMSL’s Day of Service

Jan 23, 2013

Inessa Lokshin was taken by the 10 and 11-year-old girls seated at a table at Girls, Inc. St. Louis. So much so that she wondered how she could return.

Eye on UMSL: Conference prep

Jan 23, 2013

University of Missouri–St. Louis custodian Willie Fleming Jr. rolls a table out of a storage room that’s adjacent to the Summit Lounge in the J.C. Penney Building/Conference Center on Jan. 17. He was preparing for Winter Conference: Creativity & Collaboration at the Core, which was held Jan. 19.

Collegiate Baseball Newspaper ranks UMSL Tritons 30th in preseason poll

Jan 10, 2013

Coming off its best season since 2004, the University of Missouri–St. Louis baseball team is hoping for an encore in 2013. They’re being picked to do just that, according to the NCAA Division II Collegiate Baseball Newspaper’s Preseason Poll that ranked the UMSL Tritons No. 30 nationally.

Media Coverage: October 2012

Jan 9, 2013

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.

PPRC Photo Project showcases collection online, seeks participants for Normandy High School exhibit

Dec 20, 2012

Since 2004, the Public Policy Research Center Photography Project at the University of Missouri–St. Louis has amassed more than 900 photographs taken by amateur shutterbugs from the St. Louis community. The photos, along with artwork, poetry, autobiographical texts and project descriptions, were displayed at UMSL and within the communities they were taken. Starting this semester, those exhibits are now available to view in another location: online.

UMSL’s own helps decorate White House for holidays

Dec 13, 2012

When it comes to decking the halls, the White House could use some help. Each year volunteers from across the country are recruited to drape garland and hang ornaments throughout the residence. This year the University of Missouri–St. Louis’ own Donna Carothers, assistant director of Alumni Relations, was asked to lend a helping hand.

Annual Faculty Author Reception highlights scholarly excellence

Dec 11, 2012

The location might have changed, but the premise of the annual Faculty Author Reception at the University of Missouri–St. Louis is the same.

UMSL stays ahead of the curve with grant-funded research, enhanced learning spaces, endowed professorships

Dec 6, 2012

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

Dec 5, 2012

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.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner now being served at the library

Dec 3, 2012

Cramming just got a lot more enjoyable. Just in time for finals week at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, a new café has opened inside the Thomas Jefferson Library.

Eye on UMSL: UMSL Day

Nov 20, 2012

More than 900 people visited the University of Missouri–St. Louis on Nov. 17 for UMSL Day. The biannual event gives...

Windows Phone users can now stay better connected to UMSL

Nov 18, 2012

If you’re a Windows Phone user, the University of Missouri–St. Louis has yet another way you can keep up with news and events at UMSL. The UMSL app for the Windows Phone is now available. The free app is also available for iPhone and Android.

Media Coverage: September 2012

Nov 18, 2012

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.

UMSL Tritons weekly roundup for Nov. 6-12

Nov 13, 2012

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.

2012-13 men’s basketball preview

Nov 8, 2012

Coming off the most successful season in over a decade, the University of Missouri–St. Louis men’s basketball team will open the 2012-13 campaign this weekend with high hopes of another strong season.

2012-13 women’s basketball preview

Nov 7, 2012

It’s a new era in UMSL women’s basketball as first-year head coach Katie Vaughn takes the reins of the program. “Things have been going well and I am enjoying it,” said Vaughn. “Everyone is upbeat and positive about what we want to get done here. The girls are working hard and are doing what I am asking of them. We just need to keep taking strides in the right direction.”