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UMSL Tritons weekly rewind
UMSL Tritons weekly rewind

UMSL’s golf teams are each headed to the NCAA Tournament after strong performances in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships.

UMSL Tritons weekly rewind

UMSL’s golf teams are each headed to the NCAA Tournament after strong performances in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships.

UMSL Tritons weekly rewind

UMSL’s golf teams are each headed to the NCAA Tournament after strong performances in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships.

Eye on UMSL: Practice makes perfect
Eye on UMSL: Practice makes perfect

Coaches and student athletes from UMSL’s basketball, volleyball and soccer teams worked with more than 20 children at the Mark Twain Athletic Center as part of Bring a Child to Work Day.

Eye on UMSL: Practice makes perfect

Coaches and student athletes from UMSL’s basketball, volleyball and soccer teams worked with more than 20 children at the Mark Twain Athletic Center as part of Bring a Child to Work Day.

Eye on UMSL: Practice makes perfect

Coaches and student athletes from UMSL’s basketball, volleyball and soccer teams worked with more than 20 children at the Mark Twain Athletic Center as part of Bring a Child to Work Day.

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New website seeks to serve as campus marketplace

New website seeks to serve as campus marketplace

Need a slightly used futon? A pair of new bar stools? How about a pre-owned microwave oven?

If you need any of these items or have some things of your own that you would like to sell or trade, Scott Morrissey has a possible solution. It’s called Symblia.com.

Programmers, designers gather at 2012 Global Game Jam

Programmers, designers gather at 2012 Global Game Jam

It wasn’t just any weekend. It was two days to create the ultimate video game. More than 100 programmers, artists and designers descended upon the University of Missouri–St. Louis on Jan. 27 for the 2012 Global Game Jam.

Head of St. Louis-based relief group to speak

Head of St. Louis-based relief group to speak

How does a relief organization based in Missouri mobilize to help a stricken country more than 6,000 miles away? Last March, when a powerful earthquake and tsunami struck northeast Japan, Junior Chamber International, an international disaster relief and recovery organization based in Chesterfield, Mo., immediately began working to aid people in the disaster zones.

Art educator snags national honor

Art educator snags national honor

A year after claiming a state award for her contributions to art education, Karen Cummings, coordinator of art education at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, has garnered national recognition. The National Art Education Association has selected her to receive the 2012 Western Region Higher Education Art Educator of the Year Award. Last year, she was named the Higher Education Art Educator of the Year by the Missouri Art Education Association. UMSL Daily caught up with Cummings recently to talk about her award.

Director talks ‘Intimate Apparel’

Director talks ‘Intimate Apparel’

Down but not out is the recurring theme of “Intimate Apparel,” the current production at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center, according to its director Niyi Coker, professor of African/African American Studies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

UMSL partners with medical school

UMSL partners with medical school

Students set on a career in medicine now have a new option that promises to save them time and money. The University...

St. Louis American honors administrator

St. Louis American honors administrator

Natissia Small, assistant dean of students at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, was one of 12 educators honored last Friday during the St. Louis American’s 24th annual “Salute to Excellence in Education” scholarship and awards gala.

Small, who serves as director of UMSL’s Office of Precollegiate Programs, received the 2011 Excellence in Education Award. She recently added the Office of Multicultural Relations to her responsibilities at UMSL.

Free UMSL concert to include music by noted faculty composer

Free UMSL concert to include music by noted faculty composer

An upcoming concert at the University of Missouri–St. Louis will feature two members of the UMSL faculty and include music composed by a third member of the faculty.

The concert will be held at 5 p.m. Sept. 18, in the E. Desmond and Mary Ann Lee Theater at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center. Free and open to the public, it will feature a performance of “Harriet’s Story,” a new song cycle by noted composer Barbara Harbach.

UMSL administrator named ACE Fellow

UMSL administrator named ACE Fellow

Gwendolyn Deloach-Packnett, who has served the University of Missouri–St. Louis for 14 years as the founding director of the Office of Multicultural Relations, has been selected to participate in the American Council on Education Fellows Program.

Packnett is currently assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs at UMSL. As a member of the ACE Fellows Program, she will spend the 2011-12 academic year at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis observing and monitoring the administration.

Xtreme IT! kicks off at UMSL

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Two tenants join IT Enterprises

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Celtic music comes to UMSL

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Learn about Irish Western writers

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