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St. Louis County, UMSL awarded $2.25M to reduce jail population, address...
Criminology and Criminal Justice Professor Beth Huebner is the lead researcher on the $2.25 million grant the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded St. Louis County and UMSL to reduce...
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Now or never, says Harris lecturer on addressing climate change
Council leader of UMSL’s Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center Anna Harris (at right) honors Frances Beinecke as the featured speaker of the 2016 Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture. Beinecke is a...
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Precollegiate STARS program sees record enrollment for 2016
2015 STARS students (from left) Bolatito Fatoki and Katherine Minorini, juniors at Whitfield High School at the time, pose after completing the six-week, precollegiate science research program at UMSL...
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Local students head to Maryland for National History Day finals
Isiah Shavers, a student at St. Margaret of Scotland School in St. Louis, discusses his National History Day exhibit about Benjamin Banneker with a judge during the regional competition at UMSL earlier...
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UMSL region’s first and only NSA, DHS designated ‘Center of Academic...
Those invested in the development of UMSL’s world-class cybersecurity program include (from left) Charles Hoffman, dean of the College of Business Administration; Ronald Yasbin, dean of the College of...
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Research, research, research: 8 undergraduate projects underway at UMSL
Senior psychology major Beth Wiese (left) and fellow researcher and recent psychology alumnus Tom Mauer present one of the many research projects Wiese is involved with at UMSL during the Undergraduate...
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Physics star, spring grad headed to Space and Planetary Science doctoral program
Spring grad and Delta Zeta member Cameron Nunn will research black holes through a Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Arkansas. Here, she poses in front of Benton Hall, where she...
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American Library Association’s flagship magazine names UMSL alumna’s...
In a study she conducted while pursuing her doctoral degree in education at UMSL, Stacy G. Hollins, PhD 2015, explores “the digital divide” through the experiences of individuals who have little to no...
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UMSL student veteran named 2016 Tillman Scholar, heads to Ukraine for research
Earlier this month, the Pat Tillman Foundation named U.S. Air Force veteran Ryan Barrett, a PhD candidate in political science at UMSL, among this year’s class of Tillman Scholars. The highly...
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Off to med school: Biology grad readied herself for the challenge at UMSL
Nicole Dmytryk is headed off to med school at Mizzou with a UMSL biology degree and everything she learned from the Pre-Medical Society, Chemistry Club, the Pierre Laclede Honors College and...
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Jennings High School students gain summer lab experience at UMSL
Jennings High School students (from left) Trevor Gillespie, Paris Siggers and Angel Cole wrap up their last week in the UMSL and Project Lead The Way summer intern program extracting DNA from avian...
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Galapagos bird expert Patty Parker honored with Brewster Medal
The American Ornithologists’ Union noted the more than 180 publications Des Lee Professor of Zoological Science Patty Parker has contributed to the field of ornithology in their announcement of her as...
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Karl Guenther’s work in community development earns him Emerging Leader Award
Karl Guenther, a community development specialist in the Public Policy Research Center, received the Missouri Workforce Housing Association’s Emerging Leader Award in July. (Photo by August Jennewein)...
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State conference taps graduate student’s expertise, invites her to present
Kara Long will present on child advocacy and public policy at the Missouri Association of School Psychologists’ annual conference this November. (Photo by August Jennewein) Kansas native Kara Long has...
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Stars of the STARS program choose UMSL
New students Gabrielle Murphy (left) and Christopher Ernst, both in the Pierre Laclede Honors College, come to UMSL after gaining research experience in the precollegiate STARS program more than a year...
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Richard Rosenfeld’s National Institute of Justice report continues to garner...
Richard Rosenfeld, a Thomas Jefferson Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, wrote a report for the National Institute of Justice examining plausible explanations for a spike...
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Alumna’s award-winning documentary ‘The First Secret City’ to screen at...
Chronicling the local impact of atomic weapons waste from the Manhattan Project and the Cold War, “The First Secret City” will be shown and discussed at UMSL’s Gallery 210 at 7 p.m. Sept. 14. (Images...
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Harris Center’s cemetery bat survey featured on St. Louis Public Radio
In this file photo, Vona Kuczynska, alumna and bat expert for the Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center at UMSL, holds a big brown bat native to Missouri. She led the center’s bat survey at...
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Optometry professor garners top honors for contributions to contact lenses
Ed Bennett (at left), pictured here with former students (from left) Mark Havara, Erin Brooks and Jamie Gold, was named among the most influential in his field in this month’s 30th-anniversary edition...
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PhD student Maribeth Rezey using prestigious fellowship to study decline in...
Maribeth Rezey is one of six doctoral students nationwide, including two from UMSL, conducting research as part of the Bureau of Justice Statistics Graduate Research Fellowship Program. (Photo by...
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