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Anthropologist promotes cultural sensitivity for a diverse aging population
During a National Advisory Council on Aging symposium last month, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Gerontology Margo-Lea Hurwicz (center left) presented research at the invitation of (from left)...
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MIMH teams with the Department of Mental Health and NCADA to take on the...
Built upon the foundation of a rich history spanning more than 55 years, MIMH offers research, training, evaluation and outreach services to local, national and global partners. In addition to the...
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Rise of the automatons: Mary Lacity’s latest book tackles service automation...
Mary Lacity, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at UMSL, researches how robots and humans intersect in the workforce. (Photo by August Jennewein) The exploration of how technology...
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Eye on UMSL: Difference makers
A concentration of nature’s biggest advocates forms as University of Missouri–St. Louis biology Professor Bob Marquis (left) and department graduate students gather around 2016 World Ecology Award...
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Brains on brains: Students fill first UMSL Neuroscience Research Showcase
More than 20 students from all different disciplines presented their brain-related research at the inaugural UMSL Neuroscience Research Showcase in the new Patient Care Center last Friday. (Photos by...
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From California to Costa Rica to Missouri: Assistant research professor finds...
Rachel Winograd’s research interests within her work at MIMH include substance use, mental health integration, medication-assisted treatment, public health and harm reduction, among others. (Photo by...
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Entomology expert talks pest genetics, control leading up to 2016 Whitney and...
The bug theme continues at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Earlier this week an entomology class donned their insect costumes for Halloween. But now the scientists and friends of the Whitney R....
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Graduate students compete for cash and bragging rights in thesis presentation...
Nine master’s degree and PhD candidates from across several disciplines competed in the Three Minute Thesis competition. Pictured (from left) in the front row are Mike Deckard, Anthony Fischer, Stephan...
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Education professor and homework expert weighs in on an issue familiar to...
Education Professor Cathy Vatterott sat down with Channel 5’s Ryan Dean to discuss homework concerns. A “rethinking about what we give and the amount we give” is definitely underway, said Vatterott....
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Exit-polling project helps political science students get up-close look at...
From left, UMSL students Cynthia Davis, Tim Lewis and Kimberly Brown observe voters filling out surveys outside the Dellwood Recreation Center on a rainy Election Day. They were just three of the...
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UMSL librarian is ‘the IRL of IRL in real life’– and a Harlem radio host
Since joining the UMSL Libraries team earlier this year, Lena Marvin has launched the university’s Institutional Repository Library, nicknamed IRL. It’s set to become a digital showcase of research by...
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Economics Professor Sel Dibooglu to deliver keynote address at international...
Economics Professor Sel Dibooglu will present research he’s done with colleagues from Turkey and Kazakhstan on forecasting bank defaults during the International Congress of Management, Economy and...
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Women in science: 3 science departments, 3 women chairs
Professors (from left) Wendy Olivas, Erika Gibb and Cynthia Dupureur serve as the UMSL department chairs for biology, physics and astronomy, and chemistry and biochemistry, respectively. It’s the first...
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Focusing on forgotten voices: Professor’s research investigates past, future...
Jerome E. Morris is the E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professor of Urban Education at UMSL. He came to the university from the University of Georgia in 2015 and has performed decades of research investigating...
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A sweet deal: Sicilian graduate studies sugar chemistry, lands Monsanto job
Salvatore Pistorio is graduating from UMSL this December with his doctoral degree in chemistry and has a job waiting for him as a chemist II at Monsanto. (Photos by August Jennewein) Salvatore Pistorio...
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Leaf pattern, auxin levels and more shape grad’s research projects, path to...
Stephanie Theiss is using her undergraduate research experience, leadership skills and freshly minted UMSL bachelor’s degree in biology to build her future as a molecular biology graduate student and...
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The science behind love: UMSL’s Sandra Langeslag investigates
Psychology Professor Sandra Langeslag, who is originally from Holland, came to UMSL in 2014. She runs the Neurocognition of Emotion and Motivation lab on campus, where she guides both undergraduate and...
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Fulbright Scholar, UMSL grad, now disease ecologist researches zoonotic...
Dr. Leticia Gutiérrez Jiménez is headed around the world as a field veterinarian and disease ecologist after graduating from UMSL with her PhD in biology. Working for EcoHealth Alliance, her research...
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Passionflower butterflies, love for Guyana fuel UMSL grad’s research, new job...
This Dryas iulia, commonly known as the Julia butterfly, is one of the two passionflower butterflies recent graduate Gyanpriya Maharaj researched for her doctoral dissertation. She graduated last...
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Men can be choosy, women can get around according to UMSL biologist’s popular...
Victorian-era societal understandings of gender roles skewed scientific analysis of male and female sexual tendencies, assuming males to be promiscuous and females to be coy, according to Zuleyma...
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