UMSL Magazine Spring 2014 Archives - UMSL Daily

UMSL Magazine Spring 2014

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....

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....

Bosnians’ road to success passes through UMSL

UMSL's Bosnian students and alumni make their mark on the campus and the region....

UMSL veterans boosting enrollment, settling in

More than 400 veterans are finding a home on the UMSL campus, aided by the Veterans Center and a new academic department. ...

SUCCEED prepares people with intellectual, developmental disabilities for independent life

The first cohort of students in the two-year residential post-secondary program began in August....

Optometrist talks evolution of college, contact lenses

There’s a good chance no one knows the College of Optometry at the University of Missouri–St. Louis better than Vinita Henry. ...

Living large: UMSL has an on-campus housing boom

“All of our housing options opened fully occupied for the first time, which shows the growing student involvement that is taking place at UMSL,” says UMSL housing Director Jonathan Lidgus....

UMSL helped Noelle Laudon find her true calling

She was about to embark on the wrong career path. So she shifted gears and set her sights on her true calling – nursing....

Alumnus rides successful law, political careers to Metro Transit chief

John Nations, BSPA 1985, oversees the agency responsible for operating the public transportation system for metropolitan St. Louis....

Novacks credit UMSL for their success

"UMSL helped me become serious about academics," says Steve Novack, who serves as a member of the UMSL Chancellor’s Council. ...