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Eye on UMSL: Lifting her voice

Vocal music students performed during a recital last Wednesday at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center.

UMSL Tritons weekly rewind
UMSL Tritons weekly rewind

The baseball team secured the No. 8 seed in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament after taking two out of three in a wet weekend series against Maryville.

UMSL Tritons weekly rewind

The baseball team secured the No. 8 seed in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament after taking two out of three in a wet weekend series against Maryville.

UMSL Tritons weekly rewind

The baseball team secured the No. 8 seed in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament after taking two out of three in a wet weekend series against Maryville.

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UMSL professor joins advisory group at Peruvian university

UMSL professor joins advisory group at Peruvian university

Tom McPhail, professor of media studies and chair of the Department of Theatre, Dance and Media Studies at the University of Missouri­­­–St. Louis, has accepted an invitation to join an advisory group at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

UMSL China scholar discusses wage disparity with Bloomberg Businessweek

UMSL China scholar discusses wage disparity with Bloomberg Businessweek

Of the 20 richest individuals in China, three are self-made female billionaires. But the ranking certainly isn’t a norm. In fact, China has a growing gender pay disparity, which Chinese expert Susan Brownell told Bloomberg Businessweek harkens back to the country’s male-oriented work traditions.

Eye on UMSL: ‘Bass Ostinato’

Eye on UMSL: ‘Bass Ostinato’

University of Missouri–St. Louis music students Thomas Winkler (piano), Charles Clements (bass) and Corey Axelson...

Eye on UMSL: Spring returns

Eye on UMSL: Spring returns

University of Missouri–St. Louis students walk along the ponds to the south of the Millennium Student Center on May 7....

Legacy families point to UMSL’s success

Legacy families point to UMSL’s success

Jessica Lake has spent the past seven years at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. The 25-year-old graduate student says UMSL feels like home and for good reason.

A brew for the U

A brew for the U

At 50 years old, the University of Missouri–St. Louis has cemented its status as a significant part of St. Louis...

Criminologist discusses Boston Marathon explosives

Criminologist discusses Boston Marathon explosives

As investigators continue to piece together information and evidence from Monday’s tragic Boston Marathon bombings, officials have discovered that Anti-Personnel Improvised Explosive Devices were used. These devices are easy to make and can cause serious damage.

Karen Rosen: Alumna was among university’s first optometry graduates

Karen Rosen: Alumna was among university’s first optometry graduates

Optometry awards line the hallway leading to Dr. Karen Rosen’s office. She was one of Vision Monday magazine’s 50 most influential women in optical, the 2006 St. Louis Optometrist of the Year and one of the St. Louis Business Journal’s most influential business women.

Committee of 28: The group that helped turn a golf course into a university

Committee of 28: The group that helped turn a golf course into a university

By the fall of 1959, the Normandy (Mo.) School District’s oft-discussed desire to develop a junior college appeared close to a reality. The district had acquired the needed land, but was now faced with an important question: How does a public school district establish an institution of higher education when elementary and secondary education are what it knows?

Harold Messler: How carpooling turned into a chemistry career

Harold Messler: How carpooling turned into a chemistry career

Harold Messler says he wasn’t destined to go to college, but his introduction to the University of Missouri–St. Louis – a beginning that he calls “a real fluke” – ended up expanding his horizons further than he could have imagined. And it all started with chemistry.

UMSL’s new poet laureate for the people

UMSL’s new poet laureate for the people

Poetry is for everyone, according to Jennifer Goldring, a student pursuing an MFA in creative writing and the 2013 poet laureate for the University of Missouri–St. Louis. She wants to unveil the contemporary poetry scene to the general public and help debunk the stereotype of poetry as inaccessible and archaic.

Explore strategies for responding to youth violence

Explore strategies for responding to youth violence

The Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, along with the Des Lee Collaborative Vision and College of Arts and Sciences, will present the 12th Annual Youth Violence Prevention Conference. Speakers and guests will gather at UMSL’s J.C. Penney Building/Conference Center on April 11, to examine prevention and intervention strategies for responding to youth violence in general and in St. Louis specifically.

Criminologist takes on cartoon form to discuss burglaries

Criminologist takes on cartoon form to discuss burglaries

Richard Wright (pictured left), Curators’ Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, has been an active researcher for years, studying trends in urban street crime, residential burglaries, armed robberies and carjackings. He’s used multiple methods of getting the word out about his research: the classroom, the news media, academic journals and books. But he’s never taken on cartoon form to spread the word. Until now.

UMSL alumni take second in financial competition

UMSL alumni take second in financial competition

Three recent graduates from the University of Missouri–St. Louis walked away from Tucson, Ariz., earlier this year earning second place in the 2013 Financial Service Professionals National Industry Issues Competition.