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.
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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.
Who needs math? We do
UMSL’s Helene Sherman talked with Christine Buck on KPLR about the importance of math and how everyone uses it daily.
Werner, Heyburn named to CoSIDA Academic All-District Teams
Werner and Heyburn both own 3.92 cumulative grade point averages as business administration students.
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.
Record 84 UMSL student-athletes named to Academic All-GLVC Team
All 11 of UMSL’s sports were represented on the list with baseball accounting for the most with 17 student-athletes being named, while softball accounted for 13 student-athletes.
Young musicians flock to Big Band Jazz Camp
The camp attracts more than 80 students to the UMSL campus where they learn from trumpeter Dave Scott (pictured), camp founder Jim Widner and other professional jazz musicians.
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.
Eye on UMSL: Music festival
College and high school students from the St. Louis area, Illinois and as far away as Colombia gathered at the Touhill for the Arianna String Quartet’s annual Chamber Music Festival.
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.
4 earn All-GLVC Baseball Honors for UMSL
They include senior relief pitcher Kyle Dermody, senior designated hitter Cody Garlington, senior catcher Paul Richmond and junior starting pitcher Zach Sedlacek.
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.
Where do UMSL alumni go? Everywhere but mostly here
The largest local concentration of UMSL alumni resides in St. Louis, St. Charles, Jefferson and Franklin counties and St. Louis city.
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.
UMSL nursing professor takes helm of Oncology Nursing Society
Margaret Barton-Burke, the Mary Ann Lee Endowed Professor of Oncology Nursing at UMSL, assumed the position at the organization’s annual meeting this May in Anaheim, Calif.
UMSL community reflects on Maya Angelou
“We have lost a wonderful poet and noble person,” says Drucilla Wall, poet in residence at UMSL.
Eye on UMSL: Triton pride
UMSL SUCCEED student Abeo Thompson strikes a pose with Louie while the university’s mascot had a lull during a recent photo shoot for a campus safety video.
Aaron Mann wins graphic design internship with top firm
The senior art major aced an interview to earn a summer internship with Osborn Barr, the leading agricultural communications firm in North America.
Ashleigh King named Third Team Capital One Academic All-American
The lone senior on the 2014 team started all 57 games in centerfield, posting a batting average of .290 with 54 hits, including 10 doubles, 22 RBIs and 37 runs.
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.
UMSL scientist named 2014 Inventor of the Year
Zhi Xu has been honored by The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis for creating an inexpensive, noninvasive blood glucose monitor.
Marquis Love wins awards, job for graphic design work
He won the Peoples’ Choice Award from AIGA Saint Louis for this design commemorating United Nations Day and started work at the agency Manifest Digital.
Media Coverage: April 2014
Stories about the university, its scholars and their expertise are often covered by local and national news media. Media Coverage highlights some of the top coverage.
Eye on UMSL: Campus tour
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster received an up-close look at the University of Missouri–St. Louis campus during a half-day visit May 22 with Chancellor Tom George.
Butler named Honorable Mention All-American by Daktronics, Inc.
The junior’s 14 home runs are a single season softball program record and ranked 32nd in NCAA DII, while she has 32 career long balls, also a program-best.
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.
Perryman garners NFCA Second Team All-America honors
The UMSL sophomore earns All-America honors for the second straight season after being selected to the third team as a freshman.
UMSL’s research faculty receives high national rankings
Researchers like UMSL criminologist Richard Rosenfeld (left) rank 14th among universities in the U.S. with high faculty research activity.
Charlie Nowell turns graphic design awards, internship into job
The newly minted graduate of the University of Missouri–St. Louis is used to producing art that stands out in a crowd.
Online undergraduate courses help criminology student work toward her degree
Cara Sampson is juggling a lot in her life right now, but online courses are ensuring she stays on pace to graduate.
Engineering student gains international experience, secures Boeing job
Going abroad. Graduating from college. Starting a new job. Getting married. Deborah Medintz is doing all of them within months of each other.
Women’s golf team named GLVC SAAC Team Sportsmanship Winner
This marks the fifth straight year the UMSL Tritons have won the honor.
Eye on UMSL: Finals
UMSL business administration students Dan Wang (left) and Aolei Zhang study for one of their finals outside Cafe TJ at the Thomas Jefferson Library.
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.
These UMSL grads reporting for military duty
UMSL graduates (from left) Eric Messmer, Tasha Hack and Timothy Iuchs became the Army’s newest second lieutenants at commissioning ceremonies held May 14.
Hillary Clinton, first US woman president? UMSL political scientist says it’s unlikely
Farida Jalalzai, chair of the Department of Political Science, wrote about Clinton’s chances for The Washington Post.
UMSL, Wayne State set to open NCAA Midwest Super Regional
Here’s everything you need to know going into the series including a KSDK video highlighting the team’s success.
UMSL scholars discuss ‘selfies’ in St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Technology has made it easier to quickly snap a photo and upload it to one of dozens of social media platforms for all to see.
Instructor dishes on yams mix-up, tomatoes’ poisonous past
Patti Wright, associate professor of anthropology at UMSL, studies the past interrelationships between people and plants or what is called “paleoethnobotany.”
Yates named GLVC Player of the Year in Men’s Golf
Colby Yates was also named to the All-GLVC list, along with senior Joe Atkisson and sophomore Anthony Cope.
Eye on UMSL: Be Inspired
The Afro-Cuban Ensemble preformed Thursday on North Campus at the victory celebration for UMSL Be Inspired, the faculty and staff giving campaign.
Fast forward 20 years: UMSL, WUSTL reshape face of engineers in the region
Recognizing a need to educate place-bound and minority students looking for engineering careers, the universities partnered in 1993 to fill that void.
Triton Health Educators: New peer-education group on campus
The group’s primary focus is educating peers about the abuse and misuse of prescription drugs.
Softball to host Wayne State in program’s first NCAA Midwest Super Regional
UMSL is coming off the Midwest Regional #1 championship with a 4-3 victory over No. 4 seed Truman State following junior Madison Zbaraschuk’s walk-off RBI double in the seventh inning.
Studio Schools provide new model for educating teachers
UMSL’s College of Education faculty created the Studio Schools model as a way to better prepare future teachers for the classroom.