Reda Amer named new director of UMSL’s Geospatial Collaborative
Reda Amer is serving as the new director of UMSL’s Geospatial Collaborative. (Photo by August Jennewein) The University of Missouri–St. Louis has a new director for its Geospatial Collaborative as it...
View ArticleEye on UMSL: Three Minute Thesis
Biology PhD student George Todd presents his research on hover fly cognitive and behavioral ecology during a Three Minute Thesis competition held last week in the Century Rooms of the Millennium...
View ArticleSandra Langeslag’s research on love and the brain featured on TODAY
Associate Professor Sandra Langeslag (at left) talks to TODAY show host Jenna Bush Hager about the results of the electroencephalogram test she gave Bush Hager for a segment on the science of love....
View ArticleUMSL mathematics alumna Jessie Bleile serving as new geospatial professor of...
Jessie Bleile graduated from UMSL with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and went on to work at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency as a geodetic scientist and later in academic outreach. Now,...
View ArticleUMSL faculty members release books on supply chain and North American history
Faculty members Temidayo Akenroye and George Zsidisin have co-edited books on supply chain, and Professor Kevin Fernlund has written a book on the history of North America inclusive of Mexico....
View ArticleAimee Dunlap, Nathan Muchhala sharing leadership of UMSL’s Whitney R. Harris...
Associate Professors Aimee Dunlap and Nathan Muchhala are serving as interim co-directors of the Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center. (Photos by August Jennewein) Associate Professors Aimee Dunlap...
View ArticleUMSL students present at Emerging Researchers National Conference in Washington
Senior Luis Schneegans (left) and Junior Zahria Patrick were among the nearly 300 students from across the country to present their work Feb. 9-11 at the Emerging Researchers National Conference in...
View ArticleUMSL Global celebrates internationally engaged faculty members during Touhill...
Tareq Nabhan, an assistant professor of Optometery, talks about how advances in telemedicine are being used to improve eye care around the world during an UMSL Global Faculty Reception last Wednesday...
View ArticleProfessor Michael Cosmopoulos joining ‘Immortals’ in Academy of Athens
Michael Cosmopoulos, a professor of archaeology and the Hellenic Government-Karakas Family Foundation Professor in Greek Studies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, won election to the Academy of...
View ArticleUMSL students visit Missouri State Capitol for Undergraduate Research Day
UMSL students give poster presentations last Thursday at the Missouri State Capitol as part of the University of Missouri System’s Undergraduate Research Day. (Photos courtesy of UM System) Twelve...
View ArticleSix faculty members granted sabbaticals for research and other creative works
Faculty members (clockwise from top left) Gaiyan Zhang, Lea-Rachel Kosnik, Nathan Muchhala, Deborah Cohen, Eric Wiland and Rebecca Rogers will spend either one semester or the full 2023-24 academic...
View ArticleAsk an expert: Max Gillman discusses the causes of and fallout from high...
Max Gillman, the Friedrich A. Hayek Professor of Economic History at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, recently authored a book titled “The Spectre of Price Inflation,” published by Columbia...
View ArticleUMSL honors faculty for research excellence at annual Research and Innovation...
Vijay Anand (second from left) was named Innovator of the Year at the annual Research and Innovation Reception held on April 14 in the Millennium Student Center. Chris Spilling (at left), vice...
View ArticleStudents get a chance to show off their work at annual Graduate Research Fair
Biology student George Todd talks to faculty members and another graduate student about his research last Friday during the annual Graduate Research Fair in the Millennium Student Center. Todd won...
View ArticleUndergraduate Research Symposium features special performance of composer...
During last Friday’s Undergraduate Research Symposium, anthropology major Shane Devine presented his senior thesis project, which consists of the first-ever biography of Hazel Felman, an annotated...
View ArticleUniversity of Missouri–St. Louis names Andrew Balkansky new dean of the...
Andrew Balkansky has been named the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The longtime faculty member and administrator at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, will assume his new position...
View ArticleRichard B. Primack highlights how climate change is hitting famed Walden Pond...
Boston University Professor Richard Primack listens to a question from the audience while delivering the Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture last Thursday at the Saint Louis Zoo. The lecture on “Walden...
View ArticleHow a team of experts at UMSL is helping to build a culture of literacy in...
Teachers at Hancock Elementary School are implementing new literacy strategies with the help of a $5.1 million grant. Here, Reading Specialist and National Board Certified Teacher Cheryl Calcaterra...
View ArticleBadri Adhikari develops new online tool to help writers and coders gain...
Badri Adhikari, an assistant professor of computer science, developed a new online tool called Process Feedback that provides writers and coders visualizations to help them better understand their own...
View ArticleMay graduate Emily Sigmund to enter medical physics PhD program
Emily Sigmund graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in physics and a certificate from the Pierre Laclede Honors College, and she’ll be pursuing a PhD in medical physics from Washington...
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