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UMSL students take home several ADDY Awards

UMSL students Erika Drebber and Megan Ryan won a St. Louis Student ADDY for the newspaper advertising category for this Mini Cooper ad.

The University of Missouri-St. Louis continued its hot streak by taking home four local ADDY Awards at a ceremony held Feb. 18 by AdClub St. Louis at the The Lumen in St. Louis.

Student named to ‘Rising Stars of Jazz’

When looking to showcase the next generation of jazz stars, “I Love Jazz” turned to the University of Missouri-St. Louis and selected bassist Charles Clements for their first student musician profile.

Meeting focuses on Natural Bridge redesign

More than 70 residents of north St. Louis County attended an open meeting Friday at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. They learned the possibilities for a redesigned Natural Bridge Road between Interstate 170 and Lucas and Hunt Road.

Alumnus photographs nature in Costa Rica

University of Missouri–St. Louis alumnus Gregory Basco (MA political science 2000) is proof that you never know where your degree will take you.

UMSL vision scientist receives 2 grants

Guoqiang Li, assistant professor of optometry at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, envisions a day when users of bifocals or trifocals won’t have to look down to read.

UMSL English scholar starts new journal

Joseph Carroll, Curators’ Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, co-founded and co-edited The Evolutionary Review: Art Science, Culture, a new annual journal published by State University of New York Press in Albany.

UMSL students win national art contest

Kristen Franke and Matt Grant, art education majors at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, placed second in the German Embassy’s Freedom Without Walls national art contest for their sculpture, “Light Beyond the Wall.”

UMSL is integral part of nanomedicine symposium

The St. Louis Institute of Nanomedicine’s first annual symposium, “Pathway to Translation,” took place Feb. 13 at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center at Washington University in St. Louis with Tom George, chancellor of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, serving as one of its keynote speakers.

Composer wins Women in Music competition

“American Solstice” by Barbara Harbach, professor of music at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, was chosen as the winner in a competition of scores by women composers held by the Ohio-based Women in Music–Columbus.

Pepose pledges $1 million to initiative with UMSL

The University of Missouri-St. Louis announced today that Dr. Jay Pepose and the Pepose Vision Institute have pledged $1 million to continue a refractive surgery initiative in cooperation with the university’s College of Optometry.

Nixon, Forsee discuss tuition

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced Tuesday morning that he wants tuition and academic fees at Missouri’s public, four-year universities to remain frozen during the 2010-11 academic year.

UMSL named to Greater St. Louis Top 50

The University of Missouri-St. Louis has been named to the 2009 Greater St. Louis Top 50 by St. Louis Commerce Magazine. The university is profiled in the magazine’s November issue and will be recognized at an awards dinner Nov. 18 at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront.

UMSL’s Financial Counseling center gets more funding

The University of Missouri-St. Louis and the Center for Excellence in Financial Counseling, which opened in August on UMSL’s South Campus, have received nearly $1 million in additional funding from the Foundation for Credit Education, a nonprofit organization which has now dissolved into the center.

UMSL issues RFQ from developers for Grand Center project

The University of Missouri-St. Louis believes the fastest and cheapest way to build a new facility to offer academic programs and house its award-winning public radio station in Grand Center may be through a lease-purchase arrangement with a private developer.

UMSL breaks several enrollment records

University of Missouri-St. Louis officials cite the economy as well as increasing scholarships and freezing tuition as major factors for its record total enrollment of 16,548 students this fall – a one-year increase of 5 percent. The previous record of 16,094 students was set in 1996.

$4 million gift boosts fundraising at UMSL

Express Scripts knows what it means to be a good neighbor, and the company has proven that with $4 million in gifts to the University of Missouri–St. Louis since 2005, when the company announced it would move its world headquarters to the UMSL campus.

The contributions include two gifts that were announced Tuesday – $2.5 million from the company and $500,000 from Express Scripts Chief Executive Officer and Chairman George Paz and Melissa, his wife. The Express Scripts Foundation previously donated $1 million to the university.

Chancellor, wife give $2 million gift to UMSL

University of Missouri-St. Louis Chancellor Tom George and his wife, Barbara Harbach, are making a commitment of $2 million to support the institution they have grown to regard so highly over the past six years.

UMSL raises $26.9 million, breaks record

The University of Missouri-St. Louis today announced that despite the dismal economy that has adversely impacted charitable donations, overall giving to the university this year totaled $26.9 million, an increase of 54 percent or $9.4 million over the 2008 fiscal year.

UMSL to commemorate fall of Berlin Wall

The University of Missouri-St. Louis has been selected to participate in the “Freedom Without Walls” celebration sponsored by the German Embassy in Washington. The celebration will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

KWMU reporter earns national Murrow award

Adam Allington (pictured), reporter at 90.7 KWMU-FM, has won a 2009 National Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Association.

Spring issue of UM St. Louis magazine released

The spring issue of UM St. Louis magazine was released last week. The issue includes a story about “The West the Railroads Made,” an exciting national exhibit at the St. Louis Mercantile Library. There’s a piece on the research of University of Missouri-St. Louis gerontologist Thomas M. Meuser, who has studied the efficacy of a Missouri law that’s designed to prevent older, unfit drivers from getting behind the wheel.