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A decade of opportunity: Opportunity Scholars Program impacts students and St. Louis area

The all-inclusive Pierre Laclede Honors College Program celebrates its 10th anniversary this academic year....

Pierre Laclede Honors College welcomes newest cohort of Opportunity Scholars

Bana Sultan, Katie Basler, Nora Stith, Jalen Rhodes and Lorne St. Christopher II were on campus for a reception Wednesday. ...

Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival serves as joyous sendoff for Jim Widner

UMSL's director of jazz studies, who is retiring from teaching this year, founded the festival in 2004 and has served as artistic director ever since....

Opportunity Scholars Program recruits dynamic group of local students

Six freshmen with interests in engineering, business and nursing make up the new cohort of students....

New UMSL Opportunity Scholars class raring to go

They include (from left) Lauren Jenkins, Nicole Gevers, Leslie Jackson, Anta Kane and Brendan McCoy....

The Opportunity Scholars Program: Providing opportunities for St. Louis’ first-generation college students

The University of Missouri–St. Louis created The Opportunity Scholars Program last year to recruit first-generation college students and increase diversity among future leaders in science, engineering, math and related fields....