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Trilce Encarnacion receives NSF grant to help grow diversity in STEM careers

Encarnacion developed a program called the Minority Issues Forum Undergraduate Students Workshop, which aims to help underrepresented college students get involved in STEM research....

Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion brings equity advisor training to UMSL through NSF ADVANCE grant

Over the summer, 26 UMSL faculty and staff members completed the training, which focused on best practices to promote inclusive excellence and equity in hiring. ...

Education alumna Kelly Taylor named Hazelwood School District Teacher of the Year

Taylor teaches Honors Biology, Principles of Biomedical Science and AP Environmental Science at Hazelwood West High School....

Badri Adhikari receives NSF grant for research on protein distance prediction

Adhikari's research uses artificial intelligence to create algorithms that predict the distance between protein pairs in amino acids - an issue characterized as a top 100 unsolved problem. ...

National Science Foundation awards Jianli Pan $500K to research edge cloud computing

The assistant professor of computer science is working to develop new technology to enhance the quality of users' experience with Internet of Things applications and devices....

Marco Pipoly, UMSL’s 100,000th graduate, on path to career in neuroscience

Pipoly was celebrated as the university's 100,000th graduate during commencement ceremonies Saturday afternoon and has received an NSF research fellowship for graduate school....

Chemistry professor’s blue emitters for OLEDs offer high school student cutting-edge collegiate research experience

Janet Wilking is making blue light-emitting molecules more stable. They're used to light screens of electronic devices, which interested STARS student Preston Willis....

A look into ‘Glycoworld’ at UMSL, its sweet chemistry research and the professor behind it

Alexei Demchenko's research on synthesizing carbohydrates has resulted in NIH, NSF and Pfizer funding and a UMSL 2017 Senior Investigator of the Year award....

UMSL one of eight Missouri schools in $5 million NSF grant to increase minority graduates in STEM

The grant calls for a 125 percent increase in Missouri's minority STEM graduates, with the goal of graduating more than 600 statewide by 2021....

NSF awards student grant for plant research

Research taking place at the University of Missouri–St. Louis could render valuable insight into how biodiversity can affect natural ecosystems. Diego Salazar, a PhD candidate in biology at UMSL, has...

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