Stith was a 2019 Opportunity Scholar and served in leadership for multiple organizations across campus.
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Stith was a 2019 Opportunity Scholar and served in leadership for multiple organizations across campus.
Stith was a 2019 Opportunity Scholar and served in leadership for multiple organizations across campus.
Stith was a 2019 Opportunity Scholar and served in leadership for multiple organizations across campus.
Smith has been involved in all facets of UMSL Police Department operations while serving as deputy chief. She will begin her new position on Sept. 16.
UMSL entomologists Aimee Dunlap and Sara Miller join UMSL Daily for a conversation about the historic cicada emergence that will soon happen in Missouri.
UMSL entomologists Aimee Dunlap and Sara Miller join UMSL Daily for a conversation about the historic cicada emergence that will soon happen in Missouri.
UMSL entomologists Aimee Dunlap and Sara Miller join UMSL Daily for a conversation about the historic cicada emergence that will soon happen in Missouri.
The award recognizes the career achievements of a distinguished plant lipid scientist and was named to honor Terry Galliard, who organized the first International Symposium on Plant Lipids in 1974.
The award recognizes the career achievements of a distinguished plant lipid scientist and was named to honor Terry Galliard, who organized the first International Symposium on Plant Lipids in 1974.
The award recognizes the career achievements of a distinguished plant lipid scientist and was named to honor Terry Galliard, who organized the first International Symposium on Plant Lipids in 1974.
UMSL’s graduate programs in social work, education, business and public affairs all made gains and were ranked among the top 125 nationally in the latest rankings.
UMSL’s graduate programs in social work, education, business and public affairs all made gains and were ranked among the top 125 nationally in the latest rankings.
UMSL’s graduate programs in social work, education, business and public affairs all made gains and were ranked among the top 125 nationally in the latest rankings.
For Jeanette Hencken, Liz Petersen, Sandra Mueller and Joan Twillman, meeting Jane Miller changed their lives and fueled their passion for science education.
After numerous research trips to the Galápagos Islands, UMSL and the Parker lab hosted a partner team of Galápagos lab technicians and veterinarians for the first time.
An alumna of Missouri S&T and now a graduate student at UMSL, Lara Edwards’ artwork in the new book was especially inspired by Rolla’s scenery.
Zuleyma Tang-Martinez debunks Bateman’s Principle about promiscuous males and coy females in her article that first appeared in The Conversation online.
The Dryas iulia, commonly known as the Julia butterfly, is one of the two species Gyanpriya Maharaj studied to understand their color choices regarding food and mates.
Leticia Gutiérrez Jiménez will travel to the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, West Africa, Egypt and Jordan this year to take blood samples from bats, rodents and primates.
The UMSL alumna will put to work her dual degrees in biology and education to help save the Indiana dunes and lakeshore.
Stephanie Theiss did research on campus and at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center while also serving as president of the UMSL Biological Society.
Wendy Olivas, Erika Gibb and Cynthia Dupureur serve as the UMSL department chairs for biology, physics and astronomy, and chemistry and biochemistry, respectively.
Nearly 300 attendees of the grand opening received tours of the four-story, 75,000-square-foot facility as students demonstrated experiments and showed off their new space.
Kathryn Loucks, president of the Student Government Association, shared her experiences with high school students during this year’s event before UMSL Day.
Halloween transformed more than 30 students in an entomology course into beetles, butterflies, praying mantises and more at UMSL.
Called “Hero for the Planet” by TIME magazine, the 81-year-old continues to deep sea dive and fight to protect marine ecosystems worldwide.
Students and a few faculty members packed Century Room A at the Millennium Student Center and watched as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump shared the stage in New York.
New students Gabrielle Murphy and Christopher Ernst come to UMSL after gaining research experience in the precollegiate STARS program more than a year ago.
Steven’s Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, which documents the evolutionary relationships of flowering plants and is the only resource of its kind relied on worldwide, earned him the distinction.
Project Lead The Way placed the teens in UMSL labs where they researched everything from avian malaria to circadian rhythm in fruit flies.
Along with her degree, Nicole Dmytryk’s efforts in the Pre-Medical Society, Chemistry Club, honors college – and in the research lab – have her prepped for this fall at Mizzou.
Alzheimer’s Disease, stone lithography and plant hormones are just a few of the research topics that undergraduate students are tackling this year.
Rankings were released this week in the 2017 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools Guide Book.
The secondary education major incorporated the comedy of his favorite late-night host during last week’s pageant-like competition.
Biology students Hannah Stowe (left) and Randy Anderson researched pollinators’ interactions with native and nonnative plant species at Bellefontaine Cemetery.
UMSL has 46 alumni total in leading positions at conservation sites across 17 different countries.
Vona Kuczynska, MS biology 2015, is a bat specialist for SCI Engineering, a consulting company that helps developers comply with the Endangered Species Act.
UMSL scholarship recipient Ashley Taylor’s interest in topics that “we don’t know much about” began in high school, when she participated in the 2013 STARS program on campus.
Breanna Tarkington, who often rides her three-wheel bike to campus, appreciates the ways UMSL serves its busy students, like extending office hours as a new semester approaches.
The 2014-15 academic year marks the 25th anniversary of the college.
Briona Perry and Elle Fitzpatrick are on to bigger dreams with their bachelor’s degrees in biology.
Lindsey Gray’s research was made possible by grants the recent graduate received during her senior year at UMSL.
The programs include criminology and criminal justice, education, public policy administration, clinical psychology, psychology, nursing, social work, biology, and chemistry and biochemistry.
Christine Noto studies human neural cells for her research on Parkinson’s gene LRRK2, for which she received an Undergraduate Research Grant.
Michael Weaver and Kelsi Schlundt (seated in front of the rest of the homecoming court) were crowned the 2015 UMSL Homecoming King and Queen on Feb. 21.
In the lab or behind a lectern, scientist Danielle Lee is usually in the minority. Rarely does she see people who resemble her.
UMSL Chancellor Tom George (seated, right) and Norman “Jay” Wilson (seated, left), executive director of admissions for the American University of Antigua College of Medicine, recently signed an articulation agreement.
The duo is the first men’s soccer players to earn the distinction since 2009, and they are now eligible to be selected to the Academic All-America Team.
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.
Of special note, the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice’s doctoral degree program ranks fourth.
When Serene Darwish made the switch from pre-med to biology she knew it was a better fit, but the move came as a surprise to her family. Now, any lingering doubts have been quashed.
Nadia King (left) and Kamilla Isakova celebrate their graduation from the University of Missouri–St. Louis on Dec. 15 outside the university’s Mark Twain Athletic & Fitness Center. Each earned a bachelor’s degree in biology. King hails from Minsk, Belarus, and Isakova from Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Nicole “Nikki” Benjamin has never let her hearing impairment slow her down. The University of Missouri–St. Louis biology major sees the challenge as one she knows she has repeatedly overcome.
Danielle Lee is living a blogger’s dream. Last month she was chosen as one of Scientific American’s premier science...
Army veteran and University of Missouri–St. Louis alumnus Adam Henderson says combat medics were in short supply...
The University of Missouri–St. Louis is waiting patiently for the spectacular and rarely seen plant, known as a...
University of Missouri-St. Louis alumnus Corneille Ewango (MS biology 2006) received a prestigious 2011 Future for...
Bush or Amur Honeysuckle is scattered throughout Missouri and is everywhere in the St. Louis region. There is a good...
A common seabird on the Galapagos Islands, historically thought to be genetically the same as its mainland...
Michael Cash beamed as he talked about studying in Costa Rica this past summer. For the senior biology major at the...
The Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis will hold the first of its 20th...
Joe Moleski was born with hemophilia. At six months old, bleeding on his brain almost killed him. Before his first...
Twenty-three aspiring scientists who spent several weeks conducting intensive research with St. Louis-area...