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Eye on UMSL: Cave exploring

Eye on UMSL: Cave exploring

UMSL’s Environmental Adventure Organization participates in a variety of adventures throughout the year including caving, hiking, picnics, ice skating, bonfires and camping.

Eye on UMSL: Cave exploring

UMSL’s Environmental Adventure Organization participates in a variety of adventures throughout the year including caving, hiking, picnics, ice skating, bonfires and camping.

Eye on UMSL: Cave exploring

UMSL’s Environmental Adventure Organization participates in a variety of adventures throughout the year including caving, hiking, picnics, ice skating, bonfires and camping.

Eye on UMSL: Chalk With Us
Eye on UMSL: Chalk With Us

UMSL’s Honors College partnered with the Office of Student Involvement, State Historical Society of Missouri and others to create the event honoring St. Louis women.

Eye on UMSL: Chalk With Us

UMSL’s Honors College partnered with the Office of Student Involvement, State Historical Society of Missouri and others to create the event honoring St. Louis women.

Eye on UMSL: Chalk With Us

UMSL’s Honors College partnered with the Office of Student Involvement, State Historical Society of Missouri and others to create the event honoring St. Louis women.

Eye on UMSL: A Taste of Latin America
Eye on UMSL: A Taste of Latin America

Associate Teaching Professor Tim Abeln showed students how to make picadillo de chayote during a National Foreign Language Week event hosted by the Department of Language and Cultural Studies.

Eye on UMSL: A Taste of Latin America

Associate Teaching Professor Tim Abeln showed students how to make picadillo de chayote during a National Foreign Language Week event hosted by the Department of Language and Cultural Studies.

Eye on UMSL: A Taste of Latin America

Associate Teaching Professor Tim Abeln showed students how to make picadillo de chayote during a National Foreign Language Week event hosted by the Department of Language and Cultural Studies.

Eye on UMSL: Three Minute Thesis Competition
Eye on UMSL: Three Minute Thesis Competition

Biology PhD student Kristen Rosamond finished third in last week’s 3MT Competition, after presenting her research titled “Seeing the Invisible: The Hidden World of Microbes That Influence Bird Health.”

Eye on UMSL: Three Minute Thesis Competition

Biology PhD student Kristen Rosamond finished third in last week’s 3MT Competition, after presenting her research titled “Seeing the Invisible: The Hidden World of Microbes That Influence Bird Health.”

Eye on UMSL: Three Minute Thesis Competition

Biology PhD student Kristen Rosamond finished third in last week’s 3MT Competition, after presenting her research titled “Seeing the Invisible: The Hidden World of Microbes That Influence Bird Health.”

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Eye on UMSL: Professional experience

Eye on UMSL: Professional experience

Chris Emerson, UMSL Professional MBA student, shares his past IT experience with his cohort in their Information Systems Management class.

Eye on UMSL: Faculty authors

Eye on UMSL: Faculty authors

Information systems Professor Mary Lacity talks with Larry Frederick, UMSL’s chief information officer, about his book at the annual Faculty Author Reception.

Eye on UMSL: International flair

Eye on UMSL: International flair

Alexandra Weil (left) and Audrey Charlet, both freshmen from Paris, brave the freezing cold as they walk to class with Lucas Pierrez-Peter, a freshman from Strasbourg, France.

Eye on UMSL: The agreement

Eye on UMSL: The agreement

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.

Eye on UMSL: Sumo students

Eye on UMSL: Sumo students

UMSL seniors Hasib Ibradzic and Abdul-Kariem Mattenzzi stepped inside sumo suits and into the ring to wrestle recently at UMSL’s Millennium Student Center.

Eye on UMSL: Teaching and Technology

Eye on UMSL: Teaching and Technology

Larry K. Michaelson presents the workshop “Designing Group Work that Really Works Online and in the Classroom,” part of a UMSL Center for Teaching and Learning two-day conference.

Eye on UMSL: Induction

Eye on UMSL: Induction

Beta Gamma Sigma recently inducted new members during the UMSL College of Business Administration‘s annual Bachmann Book Series on Oct. 29.

Eye on UMSL: Ice cream chemistry

Eye on UMSL: Ice cream chemistry

UMSL Chemistry Club members (from left) Rahmah Ghazal, Hung Nguyen and Jordan Rabus make some homemade ice cream to celebrate National Chemistry Week.

Eye on UMSL:  Autumn sun

Eye on UMSL: Autumn sun

The sun returns from a lengthy hiatus as Mackenzie Jo Remmert, a sophomore social work major, sits cross-legged among the Quad’s fallen leaves on warm and lovely autumn day.

Eye on UMSL: What A Fan

Eye on UMSL: What A Fan

St. Louis Cardinals superfan and UMSL mail carrier Tom “The Hat Man” Lange shows his What A Fan Award ring to students Femi John (center) and Johnny Mueller.

Eye on UMSL: Education initiative

Eye on UMSL: Education initiative

Gov. Jay Nixon announces a $500,000 federal grant to North Campus, a tutoring program founded by St. Louis Alderman Antonio French (left). The announcement was made Oct. 2 at UMSL.

Eye on UMSL: GardenVille

Eye on UMSL: GardenVille

Through the Catholic Newman Center, UMSL alumnus Matthew Hubbard and student volunteers (from left) Janelle Miller, Sharee Chambers and Meagan Burwell work in the community garden known as GardenVille.

Eye on UMSL: Suited up

Eye on UMSL: Suited up

This foursome took to the Busch Stadium field for UMSL Night at the Ballpark prior to the start of the Sept. 12 St. Louis Cardinals game.

Eye on UMSL: Field study

Eye on UMSL: Field study

UMSL biology student Robert Perks enjoys the natural landscape and canopy of the North Campus Quad to study between classes.

Eye on UMSL: #UMSLFAMOUS

Eye on UMSL: #UMSLFAMOUS

Did you win an award? Get an internship, a scholarship or a job? Drop us a line at umslnews@umsl.edu and become #UMSLFAMOUS.

Eye on UMSL: New faculty

Eye on UMSL: New faculty

Christopher Boyce, supervisor of instructional technology for UMSL Information Technology Services, introduces new faculty members to software and hardware support they can take advantage of for their research and teaching.

Eye on UMSL: Nanoporous carbons

Eye on UMSL: Nanoporous carbons

Senior physics major Henry Hamper, an undergraduate research grant recipient at UMSL, makes nanoporous carbons in Benton Hall.

Eye on UMSL: Ice cream

Eye on UMSL: Ice cream

University Child Development Center classmates Colin McGuire (left) and Gannon Crangle (right) top off their ice cream desserts with help from their respective grandmothers while Radley Bergfeld awaits his turn.

Eye on UMSL: Scoreboard guru

Eye on UMSL: Scoreboard guru

If you go to a St. Louis Cardinals game, you’ll likely note the elaborate digital scoreboard graphics and videos. Those are brought to you by UMSL alumnus Bobby Sutherland (left).

Eye on UMSL: Acappellooza

Eye on UMSL: Acappellooza

Jim Henry, director of choral studies at UMSL, leads the Acappellooza Summer men’s chorus in a rehearsal before the main concert.

Eye on UMSL: Progress

Eye on UMSL: Progress

Here’s a look at the UMSL Recreation and Wellness Center construction progress. The facility is slated to open in the fall of 2015.

Eye on UMSL: The kiss

Eye on UMSL: The kiss

Louie offers a surprise “kiss” (of the foil-wrapped chocolate variety) to alumna Haley Brightwell, BSBA 2014, as she works in the Graduate Business Programs office.

Eye on UMSL: Forest Park

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.

Eye on UMSL: Music festival

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.

Eye on UMSL: Triton pride

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.

Eye on UMSL: Campus tour

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.

Eye on UMSL: Finals

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.

Eye on UMSL: Be Inspired

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.

Eye on UMSL: Bad carp

Eye on UMSL: Bad carp

Jackson Suhre (left) helps artist Joe Chesla with the installation of his poetry box, “Ode to Big Muddy Asian Carp,” for Poetry of the Wild/St. Louis Fusion.

Eye on UMSL: Springtime statistics

Eye on UMSL: Springtime statistics

Nevena Maric, assistant professor of mathematics at UMSL, and her applied statistics students took advantage of the nice weather and scenic spring setting on North Campus by moving class outside.

Eye on UMSL: Mirthday concert

Eye on UMSL: Mirthday concert

American hip-hop recording artist B.o.B performs to an enthusiastic, sold-out audience at the Touhill to close out UMSL’s Mirthday celebration on campus.

Eye on UMSL: Sunset

Eye on UMSL: Sunset

UMSL campus photographer August Jennewein was en route to an assignment at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center when he was struck by what he saw.

Eye on UMSL: Packed house

Eye on UMSL: Packed house

A packed house attended the all-day “State of Digital Media Marketing Conference” at UMSL.

Eye on UMSL: Opening day

Eye on UMSL: Opening day

UMSL students (from left) Chris Jaros, Kevin Arendt, Jeff Sjerven, Zach Willmer, and Gen Onuma watch the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Cincinnati Reds 1-0 on opening day.

Eye on UMSL: Celebrating 250

Eye on UMSL: Celebrating 250

More than 250 sculpture cakes have been placed at strategic historic locations around St. Louis for Cakeway to the West, including two at UMSL.

Eye on UMSL: Phase 10

Eye on UMSL: Phase 10

UMSL mathematics and computer science students (from left) Kevin Shee, Rygin Jireh Liceralde and Michael Nguyen blow off steam by playing their regular post-class Phase 10 card game.

Eye on UMSL: Flash mob

Eye on UMSL: Flash mob

As the music to Katy Perry’s song “Firework” began, dozens of people in the Nosh at UMSL’s Millennium Student Center jumped to their feet.

Eye on UMSL: Speed networking

Eye on UMSL: Speed networking

Ninety seconds isn’t much time, but for some business students it was enough to make a networking connection.

Eye on UMSL: Awardees

Eye on UMSL: Awardees

Nearly 200 parents and teachers honored a record 47 high school juniors who earned Distinguished Achievement Awards for Science Excellence from the UMSL College of Arts and Sciences.

Eye on UMSL: Tropical Nosh

Eye on UMSL: Tropical Nosh

From left: Hiroyuki Onoue, Takumi Shima, Yurina Makino, Hiroyuki Mizunuma and Takehiko Tajima find a relaxing and warm spot to visit in the MSC while it snows outside.

Eye on UMSL: Chili competition

Eye on UMSL: Chili competition

UMSL students Bekah Cripe (left) and Sara Gerberding are about to taste the white chicken chili sponsored by the College of Business Administration.

Eye on UMSL: Gratitude

Eye on UMSL: Gratitude

UMSL students gather in The Nosh as Ally Hoehn, a senior majoring in logistics and operations management, explains Operation Gratitude to Rep. Clem Smith.

Eye on UMSL: First print

Eye on UMSL: First print

UMSL Print Shop supervisor Jay Frey displays the unit’s first print job at its new location in the lower level of the J.C. Penney Building.

Eye on UMSL: Winter wonderland

Eye on UMSL: Winter wonderland

Yiuman Tse and his wife, Chunying, stroll along North Campus after the area experienced a massive snowfall.

Eye on UMSL: Happy New Year!

Eye on UMSL: Happy New Year!

Melissa Schwartz, a junior music major at UMSL, plays “St. Louis Blues” by W.C. Handy at the Wind Ensemble Concert held in the Lee Theater at the Touhill. She was part of 10-student trumpet ensemble.

Eye on UMSL: Happy Holidays!

Eye on UMSL: Happy Holidays!

The annual Jazz for the Holidays concert took place Dec. 8 at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center. The concert featured the UMSL Jazz Ensemble, University Orchestra and Vocal Point choral group. The event also served as the finale to the UMSL Jubilee.

Eye on UMSL: First snowball

Eye on UMSL: First snowball

Snowball in hand, Abigail Tamakloe, 14, targets her sister, Jochebed, 9, who seeks refuge behind her father, Rev. King Joshua, while their mother, Princess Rita, laughs in the foreground.

Eye on UMSL: Total excellence

Eye on UMSL: Total excellence

Alumna Sue O’Leary, BSBA accounting 1988, says a degree from UMSL has meant a career doing what she loves.

Eye on UMSL: Global discussion

Eye on UMSL: Global discussion

Russian delegates from the Open World Program visited with students and faculty from UMSL’s School of Social Work on Nov. 21. The visitors were hosted by the World Affairs Council of St. Louis and included seven delegates focusing on social service issues and an interpreter. The visitors sat down with UMSL students and faculty to learn about social service programs and agencies as well as how resources and funding are provided, particularly in issues of children and families. The Open World Program brings young political and civic leaders from Russia and nine post-Soviet states to the United States for short-term professional trips.