University of Missouri–St. Louis
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The University of Missouri–St. Louis (UMSL, commonly pronounced "uhm-suhl") is one of four universities in the University of Missouri System. Established in 1963, it is the newest university in the UM System. , it is the largest university by enrollment in the St. Louis area with 16,548 students. UMSL's campus is located on the former grounds of the Bellerive Country Club in Saint Louis County, Missouri, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, within the municipalities of Bellerive
Bellerive, Missouri
Bellerive is a northern suburban village in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 188 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Bellerive is located at ....

, Bel-Nor
Bel-Nor, Missouri
Bel-Nor is a northern suburban village in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,499 as of the 2010 census. The events that were the basis for the 1971 novel and 1973 movie The Exorcist have a connection to the village of Bel-Nor....

 and Normandy
Normandy, Missouri
Normandy is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 5,008 at the 2010 census.-History:The town is on land once owned by Charles Lucas. Lucas obtained property from the federal government with land grants, and he purchased the land from victims of the New Madrid...

. Additional facilities are located at the former site of Marillac College
Marillac College
Marillac College was a Catholic sisters' college in St. Louis, Missouri. Like other sisters' colleges, it was dedicated to the education of future nuns and other religious workers, though it was also open to members of the laity. It closed in 1974....

.

Bachelor's
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...

, Master's
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...

, and doctoral
Doctorate
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 programs are offered through the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business Administration, the College of Education, the College of Fine Arts and Communication, the College of Nursing, and the College of Optometry. The business school is AACSB-accredited and is the only university in the St. Louis area to also be AACSB-accredited in accounting. Preprofessional, a joint engineering program with Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations...

, and evening programs are also offered. UMSL is home of an optometry
Optometry
Optometry is a health care profession concerned with eyes and related structures, as well as vision, visual systems, and vision information processing in humans. Optometrists, or Doctors of Optometry, are state licensed medical professionals trained to prescribe and fit lenses to improve vision,...

 school, providing its students with a doctorate (OD). Only 17 optometry schools exist in all of North America including Puerto Rico. The Pierre Laclede Honors College
Pierre Laclede Honors College
The Pierre Laclede Honors College is the honors program for the University of Missouri–St. Louis. It was named in honor of the founder of the city of St. Louis...

 is UMSL's honors program.

The University contains three libraries: The Thomas Jefferson Library
Thomas Jefferson Library
The Thomas Jefferson Library is the main library for the University of Missouri–St. Louis, the largest public university in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area.-History:...

 which is the main library of the University, the Ward E. Barnes Library which houses the materials of relevance to the nursing, education and optometry programs, and the St. Louis Mercantile Library
St. Louis Mercantile Library
The St. Louis Mercantile Library, founded in 1846 in St. Louis, Missouri, was originally established as a subscription library, and is the oldest extant library west of the Mississippi River. Since 1998 the library has been housed at the University of Missouri-St. Louis...

 which was founded in 1846 and is the oldest library west of the Mississippi River
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains...

. The campus contains two stops on MetroLink
St. Louis Metrolink
MetroLink is the light rail transit system in the Greater St. Louis area of Missouri and the Metro East area of Illinois. The entire system currently consists of two lines connecting Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and Shrewsbury, MO with Scott Air Force Base near Shiloh, Illinois through...

, St. Louis' regional light rail
Light rail
Light rail or light rail transit is a form of urban rail public transportation that generally has a lower capacity and lower speed than heavy rail and metro systems, but higher capacity and higher speed than traditional street-running tram systems...

 system. A student center, academic buildings, parking structures, a performing arts center, and residential housing have been constructed over the past ten years as part of campus improvement programs. The University has a dual-enrollment agreement with Gulf University for Science and Technology
Gulf University for Science and Technology
Gulf University for Science & Technology is the first private university established in Kuwait. It has a dual-enrollment agreement with the University of Missouri–St...

, Kuwait
Kuwait
The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the...

. The University owns and operates St. Louis Public Radio
KWMU
KWMU, is a radio station in St. Louis, Missouri. Known on-air as St. Louis Public Radio, it is a member of National Public Radio. The station is owned by and licensed to the University of Missouri–St. Louis.-About St. Louis Public Radio:St...

.

70% of its undergraduate classes have 29 or fewer students, and 43.6% have 19 or fewer students. The student-faculty ratio is 17:1.

History

The move for a college campus in its current location began in 1957 when members of the Bellerive Country Club
Bellerive Country Club
Bellerive Country Club is a golf country club located in Town and Country, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. The course will be hosting the 2013 Senior PGA Championship, and also the 100th annual PGA Championship, which will be held in 2018.-History:...

 put their 53-year-old club house and 125 acres (50.6 ha) grounds on the market for $1.3 million as they planned to move to larger quarters in Town and Country, Missouri
Town and Country, Missouri
Town and Country is a wealthy inner ring suburb in west St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, with a population of 10,815 as of the 2010 census. Town and Country has the highest median household income of any city in Missouri with population over 10,000 and also has one of the highest median...

. At the same time members of Normandy, Missouri
Normandy, Missouri
Normandy is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 5,008 at the 2010 census.-History:The town is on land once owned by Charles Lucas. Lucas obtained property from the federal government with land grants, and he purchased the land from victims of the New Madrid...

 School District began debating the need of creating an affordable junior college
Junior college
The term junior college refers to different educational institutions in different countries.-India:In India, most states provide schooling through 12th grade...

 to offer an alternative to the much more expensive privately-owned Saint Louis University
Saint Louis University
Saint Louis University is a private, co-educational Jesuit university located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1818 by the Most Reverend Louis Guillaume Valentin Dubourg SLU is the oldest university west of the Mississippi River. It is one of 28 member institutions of the...

 and Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations...

. Country Club members approached the Board and the asking price was dropped to $600,000. A bond issue on September 30, 1958, received the necessary two-thirds majority and the golf club was turned over to Normandy on May 31, 1960. A group of board members and citizens popularly referred to as "The Committee of Twenty-eight" began the process to set up the junior college
Junior college
The term junior college refers to different educational institutions in different countries.-India:In India, most states provide schooling through 12th grade...

. The group was to meet with Elmer Ellis
Elmer Ellis
Elmer Ellis was an American educator and fourteenth president of the University of Missouri and first president of the University of Missouri System. He was instrumental in the expansion of the university to include the University of Missouri–Kansas City and University of Missouri–St. Louis...

, president of the University of Missouri
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri System is a state university system providing centralized administration for four universities, a health care system, an extension program, five research and technology parks, and a publishing press. More than 64,000 students are currently enrolled at its four campuses...

.

The University of Missouri
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri System is a state university system providing centralized administration for four universities, a health care system, an extension program, five research and technology parks, and a publishing press. More than 64,000 students are currently enrolled at its four campuses...

 at the time was responsible for accrediting junior colleges. Ellis suggested that the University of Missouri supervise the educational program at the school. The terms required that 100 students attend the school. 140 students applied on the first day. The Clubhouse was renovated with 15 classrooms, two laboratories, a large lecture room, a library and a cafeteria. The "Normandy Residence Center under the auspices of the University of Missouri" opened in September 1960. Enrollment increased to 300 in 1961 and 550 in 1962.

Interest in a four-year school immediately arose. The University of Missouri System was created in 1963 to take over the Normandy campus as well as the previously privately owned University of Kansas City
University of Missouri–Kansas City
The University of Missouri–Kansas City is a public university located in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. It is a branch of the University of Missouri System. Its main campus is in Kansas City's Rockhill neighborhood east of the Country Club Plaza...

 in addition to the system's already owned campuses in Columbia
Columbia, Missouri
Columbia is the fifth-largest city in Missouri, and the largest city in Mid-Missouri. With a population of 108,500 as of the 2010 Census, it is the principal municipality of the Columbia Metropolitan Area, a region of 164,283 residents. The city serves as the county seat of Boone County and as the...

 and Rolla
Rolla, Missouri
Rolla is a city in Phelps County, Missouri, United States, midway between the larger cities of St. Louis and Springfield along I-44. The population in the 2010 United States Census was 19,559.It is the county seat of Phelps County...

. The transfer from the Normandy school to the University of Missouri System was delayed when the Missouri Supreme Court in 4-3 decision ruled that the school could not transfer the property without a formal open bid process. The Missouri General Assembly
Missouri General Assembly
The Missouri General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Missouri. The bicameral General Assembly is composed of a 34-member Senate, and a 163-member House of Representatives. Members of both houses of the General Assembly are subject to term limits...

 enacted legislation signed by Governor John Dalton
John Dalton
John Dalton FRS was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, and his research into colour blindness .-Early life:John Dalton was born into a Quaker family at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth, Cumberland,...

 on October 13, 1963 enabling the transfer and the University bought the property for $60,000 from unallocated funds at the university's disposal.

With expanding enrollment classes were held in a laundromat building at Natural Bridge and Hanley and in a church basement across from the campus while buildings were built on the site of the former Bellerieve Country Club. Benton Hall opened in 1965, Clark Hall and the Library were the next buildings built. On July 23, 1973, an Ozark Airlines Fairchild Hiller FH-227
Fairchild Hiller FH-227
The Fairchild F-27 and Fairchild Hiller FH-227 were versions of the Fokker F27 Friendship twin-engined turboprop passenger aircraft manufactured under license by Fairchild Hiller in the United States...

B Flight 809 from Nashville International Airport
Nashville International Airport
Nashville International Airport is a joint civil-military airport in southeastern Nashville, Tennessee. The IATA Airport Code BNA is derived from the early name of the facility—Berry Field, NAshville. Berry Field was the name of the airport until 1988, when the name was changed to reflect...

 crashed into the campus just east of the Mark Twain complex while attempting to land at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is a Class B international airport serving Greater St. Louis. It is located approximately northwest of downtown St. Louis in unincorporated St. Louis County between Berkeley and Bridgeton. It is the largest and busiest airport in the state with 250 daily...

. 37 passengers and one crew member were killed although four passengers and two crew members including the captain survived. A tornado warning
Tornado warning
A tornado warning is an alert issued by government weather services to warn that severe thunderstorms with tornadoes may be imminent. It can be issued after a tornado or funnel cloud has been spotted by eye, or more commonly if there are radar indications of tornado formation...

 had been in effect at the time. In 1976 Marillac College
Marillac College
Marillac College was a Catholic sisters' college in St. Louis, Missouri. Like other sisters' colleges, it was dedicated to the education of future nuns and other religious workers, though it was also open to members of the laity. It closed in 1974....

 was acquired. It is now called the "south campus."

Academics

Academic Units

Divisions of the University include: the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business Administration, the College of Education, the College of Fine Arts and Communication, the College of Nursing, the College of Optometry, the Pierre Laclede Honors College
Pierre Laclede Honors College
The Pierre Laclede Honors College is the honors program for the University of Missouri–St. Louis. It was named in honor of the founder of the city of St. Louis...

, the School of Social Work, Continuing Education, the Graduate School, and the UMSL/Washington University Joint Undergraduate Engineering Program.

The College of Arts and Sciences has these divisions:

  • Anthropology
    Anthropology
    Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...

  • Biology
    Biology
    Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

  • Chemistry
    Chemistry
    Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

  • Criminology & Criminal Justice
    Criminology
    Criminology is the scientific study of the nature, extent, causes, and control of criminal behavior in both the individual and in society...

  • Economics
    Economics
    Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

  • English
    English studies
    English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...

  • Foreign Language & Literature
    Literature
    Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

  • History
    History
    History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

  • Math & Computer Science
  • Philosophy
    Philosophy
    Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

  • Physics
    Physics
    Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

  • Political Science
    Political science
    Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

  • Psychology
    Psychology
    Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

  • Sociology
    Sociology
    Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

  • School of Social Work
    Social work
    Social Work is a professional and academic discipline that seeks to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of an individual, group, or community by intervening through research, policy, community organizing, direct practice, and teaching on behalf of those afflicted with poverty or any real or...

  • Institute for Women & Gender Studies
    Gender studies
    Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study which analyses race, ethnicity, sexuality and location.Gender study has many different forms. One view exposed by the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir said: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one"...



Research and Public Service Centers

The University's centers include: the Center for Business & Industrial Studies, the Center for Character and Citizenship, the Center for Emerging Technologies, the Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education, the Center for Ethics and Public Life, the Center for Eye Care, the Center for Excellence in Financial Counseling, the Center for Human Origin and Cultural Diversity, the Center for the Humanities, the Center for International Studies, the Center for Nanoscience, the Center for Neurodynamics, the Center for Transportation Studies, the Center for Trauma Recovery, the Children's Advocacy Services of Greater St. Louis, the E. Desmond Lee Regional Institute of Tutorial Education, the E. Desmond Lee Technology and Learning Center, the German Cultural Center, the International Business Institute, the Missouri Institute of Mental Health, the Nicholas and Theodora Matsakis Hellenic Culture Center, the Public Policy Research Center, St. Louis Public Radio
KWMU
KWMU, is a radio station in St. Louis, Missouri. Known on-air as St. Louis Public Radio, it is a member of National Public Radio. The station is owned by and licensed to the University of Missouri–St. Louis.-About St. Louis Public Radio:St...

, the Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life, and the Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center.

Rankings

  • U.S. News & World Reports' America's Best Graduate Schools 2009 ranks its doctoral degree program in Criminology & Criminal Justice 4th in the US. The Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice was also ranked 2nd for scholarly research by the Journal of Criminal Justice.
  • The Philosophical Gourmet Report lists UMSL's terminal Master's program in Philosophy in the top 10 nationally. This report is widely cited as a primary source in ranking Philosophy graduate programs and publishes biennially.
  • In 2007 UMSL's Information Systems business faculty were ranked 3rd in the nation in productivity.
  • The University's counselor education faculty have been ranked in the top ten by Academic Analytics.
  • Academic Analytics' Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index ranked UMSL 5th in the category of universities with less than 15 doctoral programs, just behind Georgetown University.
  • U.S. News & World Reports ranked the International Business Undergraduate program 15th for 2010. That was the 7th time the program was ranked in the top 20.
  • The Journal of Communication ranked the Communication program 5th nationally for faculty productivity.
  • The evolutionary biology faculty at UMSL have been, by productivity, ranked in the top 20 by Academic Analytics.

Athletics

UMSL provides 11 Division II sports teams ranging from Soccer and Basketball to Golf and Softball.

Campus

The Campus is divided into two parts, a North Campus and a South Campus. UMSL can be visited using the St. Louis MetroLink
St. Louis Metrolink
MetroLink is the light rail transit system in the Greater St. Louis area of Missouri and the Metro East area of Illinois. The entire system currently consists of two lines connecting Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and Shrewsbury, MO with Scott Air Force Base near Shiloh, Illinois through...

 light rail system which has two stations on the campus: UMSL North
UMSL North (St. Louis Metrolink)
UMSL North is a St. Louis MetroLink Station. This station features 100 Park-Ride spaces. The station sits adjacent to the University of Missouri–St. Louis' Touhill Performing Arts Center on the university's North Campus.-External links:*...

 and UMSL South
UMSL South (St. Louis Metrolink)
UMSL South is a St. Louis MetroLink Station. This station features 130 Park-Ride spaces. The station sits adjacent to the University of Missouri–St. Louis' South Campus.-External links:*...

.

Some key buildings are the Thomas Jefferson Library
Thomas Jefferson Library
The Thomas Jefferson Library is the main library for the University of Missouri–St. Louis, the largest public university in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area.-History:...

, the Mercantile Library
St. Louis Mercantile Library
The St. Louis Mercantile Library, founded in 1846 in St. Louis, Missouri, was originally established as a subscription library, and is the oldest extant library west of the Mississippi River. Since 1998 the library has been housed at the University of Missouri-St. Louis...

, Center for Transportation Studies, University Meadows Apartments, Millennium Student Center, Residential Life and Housing, Clark Hall, Lucas Hall, Touhill Performing Arts Center,Express Scripts Hall (Formally CCB) and the Social Sciences Building. The Ward E. Barnes Library is located on the south campus and serves the College of Education and the College of Optometry.

Chancellors

  • Thomas F. George
    Thomas F. George
    Thomas F. George is chancellor and professor of chemistry and physics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, George earned a bachelor of arts degree with a double major in chemistry and mathematics from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, then a master of...

     2003–present
  • Donald Driemeier (Interim) 2003–2003
  • Blanche Touhill 1990–2002
  • Marguerite Ross Barnett
    Marguerite Ross Barnett
    Marguerite Ross Barnett was the eighth president of the University of Houston and a former chancellor of the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Barnett was the first black woman to lead a major American university....

     1986–1990
  • Arthur MacKinney (Interim) 1985–1986
  • Arnold Grobman 1975–1985
  • Emery Turner (Interim) 1974–1975
  • Joseph Hartley 1973–1974
  • Everett Walters (Interim) 1972–1973
  • Glen Driscoll 1969–1972
  • James Bugg 1965–1969

Student life

Housing

Campus Housing: Bellrive Hall, Villa North Hall, LaGras Hall, Seton Hall, Villa Proper Hall and Oak Hall.

Additional Campus Living: University Meadows Apartments (independently operated, gated, apartment style living) and The Mansion Hills.

Student Government Association

The UMSL Student Government Association
UMSL Student Government Association
The UMSL Student Government Association is a student run government set up to provide a voice for students when dealing with administration of the University of Missouri–St. Louis . SGA has three branches, executive, legislative and judicial, and also a constitution...

 (SGA) is a student run government set up to provide a voice for students when dealing with administration of the University of Missouri–St. Louis (UMSL). SGA has three parts, Executive Branch, the Assembly and the Student Court, and also is governed by a student wide approved constitution. SGA was started in 1963 when the University was founded and has gone through many constitutional changes, the most recent in 2004. SGA includes members from every student organization and students from every college on campus. This government incorporates both undergraduate and graduate in its student body. SGA has been instrumental in changes for students around the campus. It is responsible for approving student fees before they go to the board of curators of the University of Missouri System and divides out the campus Activity's Fees to fund student organizations' budgets.

Greek life

There are six social fraternities and sororities on campus. The Fraternities are Pi Kappa Alpha
Pi Kappa Alpha
Pi Kappa Alpha is a Greek social fraternity with over 230 chapters and colonies and over 250,000 lifetime initiates in the United States and Canada.-History:...

, Sigma Tau Gamma
Sigma Tau Gamma
Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity also named "Sig Tau" or "the Knights" is a U.S. all-male college secret-social fraternity founded on June 28, 1920 at University of Central Missouri...

, Sigma Pi
Sigma Pi
Sigma Pi is an international college secret and social fraternity founded in 1897 at Vincennes University. Sigma Pi International fraternity currently has 127 chapters and 4 colonies in the United States and Canada and is headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee...

. Sororities include: Alpha Xi Delta
Alpha Xi Delta
Alpha Xi Delta is a women's fraternity founded on April 17, 1893 at Lombard College, Galesburg, Illinois. Alpha Xi Delta is one of the oldest women's fraternities as well as one of the ten founding fraternities of the National Panhellenic Conference...

, Delta Zeta
Delta Zeta
Delta Zeta is an international college sorority founded on October 24, 1902, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Today, Delta Zeta has 158 collegiate chapters in the United States and over 200 alumnae chapters in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada...

, Zeta Tau Alpha
Zeta Tau Alpha
Zeta Tau Alpha is a women's fraternity, founded October 15, 1898 at the State Female Normal School in Farmville, Virginia. The Executive office is located in Indianapolis, Indiana...

.

There is also a number of city wide fraternities that recruit from UMSL and a music fraternity Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is an American collegiate social fraternity for men with a special interest in music...

 and a sorority for mothers Mu Tau Rho.

Student media

The student newspaper, The Current
The Current (newspaper)
For forty years, The Current has been the official student newspaper of the University of Missouri–St. Louis.The Current is a tabloid published weekly on Mondays. The paper has won numerous awards, including "Best in State" from the Missouri College Media Association...

, is a tabloid publishing 6,000 issues weekly. It is funded primarily by advertising revenue supplemented by student activity fees. The Current has won "Best-in-State" from the Missouri Collegiate Media Association in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The campus now hosts a student radio station, UMSL Student Radio (The U), on AM 1620 and streaming online http://www.umslradio.com. The main studios are located on the second floor of the Millennium Student Center, with a satellite studio in the Oak Hall Residence. The station is sponsored by SEMPA, the Student Electronic Media Professional's Association. The U has a "diversity" format, playing various genres of music as well as programs featuring campus news and personalities. The Film Production Society was established in 2006. The organization has since changed its name to "The Media Production Society". The organization manufactures original content, tutors students in need, and researches new forms of modern media.

Nickname and mascot

In May 2007 the UMSL board of curators approved a change of nickname from the Rivermen (first used in the 1960s) to the Tritons. The new mascot was revealed at the 'Pack the Stands' night, Fall 2009 and was named Louie by the student body at the annual Mirthday celebration, Spring 2010. The Rivermen/Riverwomen nickname seldom had popular support, primarily for its unwieldy gender constructions.

Dining

The university features multitude of places to eat, particularly in the Millenium Student Center. The NOSH, the most popular dining facility, has a sushi station, an international quizine station, a salad bar, a sub station, a special station, a wing station, and a burger station.

Notable faculty

  • Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz
    Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz
    Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz, Ph.D. is an Iraqi American botanist who works as Adjunct Professor at University of Missouri-St. Louis and Curator and Head of the Department of Asian Botany at that same university. Al-Shehbaz's primary area of interest is Brassicaceae and The Durango Herald called him"a...

    , Adjunct Professor of Biology and Curator at the Missouri Botanical Gardens
  • Janet Catherine Berlo
    Janet Catherine Berlo
    Janet Catherine Berlo is an American art historian and academic, noted for her publications and research into the visual arts heritage of Native American and pre-Columbian cultures...

    , Art History Professor (1979–1997)
  • Michael Cosmopoulos
    Michael Cosmopoulos
    Michael Basil Cosmopoulos . Professor of Archaeology and Chair of Greek Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis.As of August 2001, Dr. Michael Cosmopoulos is the Hellenic Government-Karakas Foundation Endowed Professor of Greek Studies and Professor of Archaeology with the Department of...

    , Hellenic Government-Karakas Foundation Chair of Greek Studies and Professor of Archaeology
  • Barbara Harbach
    Barbara Harbach
    Barbara Harbach is a composer, harpsichordist, organist and teacher. Since 2004, she has been Professor of Music at the University of Missouri-St. Louis...

    , Professor of Music
  • Minsoo Kang
    Minsoo Kang (historian and writer)
    Minsoo Kang is a historian and writer. Currently, he is an assistant professor of European intellectual history in the Department of History at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Kang is also an expert on the history of automata in science and in fiction.Kang has published numerous books and...

    , Professor of History
  • Robert McFerrin
    Robert McFerrin
    Robert McFerrin Sr. was the first African-American male to sing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City...

     (1921–2006)
  • Tom McPhail
    Tom McPhail
    Tom McPhail is a Canadian professor of media studies and a fellow in the Center for International Studies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. He began his academic career with Marshall McLuhan and taught several seminars with McLuhan at the University of Toronto...

    , Professor of Media Studies, Fellow in the Center for International Studies
  • George Rawick
    George Rawick
    George P. Rawick was an American academic, historian, and socialist, best known for his editorship of a 41-volume set of oral histories of former slaves, entitled, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography....

  • Robert E. Ricklefs, Curators' Professor of Biology, Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Peter Swirski
    Peter Swirski
    Peter Swirski is a Canadian scholar and literary critic listed in Canadian Who's Who. Specialist in American literature and American Studies, he is the author of twelve books, including the National Book Award nominated Ars Americana, Ars Politica and the staple of popular culture studies From...

    , Professor of American Literature
  • Lawrence H. White
    Lawrence H. White
    Lawrence H. White is an Economics Professor at George Mason University who teaches graduate level Monetary Theory and Policy. He is considered an authority on the history and theory of free banking...

  • Richard Wright, Fellow of the American Society of Criminology

Notable alumni

  • Gary Belsky - Notable Author and Editor in Chief of ESPN The Magazine
  • Timothy P. Green
    Timothy P. Green
    Timothy P. Green is a Democratic politician from Missouri. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.He received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from University of Missouri-St. Louis...

     - Missouri State Politician
  • Marty Hendin
    Marty Hendin
    Marty Hendin was a baseball executive who worked in various marketing, public relations, and community relations posts for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball. Inducted into the University of Missouri-St...

     - Former Vice President of Community relations for the St. Louis Cardinals
  • Joan Kelly Horn
    Joan Kelly Horn
    Joan Kelly Horn is an American politician from Missouri. She served one term in the United States House of Representatives representing Missouri's 2nd congressional district in suburban St. Louis. She is a Democrat....

     - Former United States Congresswoman
  • Daniel Isom
    Daniel Isom
    Daniel Isom was appointed St. Louis' 33rd St. Louis Chief of Police on October 6, 2008, and is St. Louis' third African-American police chief.He joined the St...

     - St. Louis City Chief of Police
  • Richard Lindner
    Richard Lindner (business executive)
    Richard G. Lindner is currently the Chief Financial Officer and a Senior Executive Vice President of AT&T Inc.. He has served as CFO since 2004 when he was appointed to the position at the former SBC. He attended the University of Missouri-St. Louis where he graduated with a Bachelor of Business...

     - Chief Financial Officer and Senior Executive Vice President of AT&T
  • Therese Sander
    Therese Sander
    Therese Sander is a Missouri farmer and a former Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives.She was born in Columbia, Missouri, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She is married and has four adult daughters: Tamara Copple, Kathleen Basi,...

     - Missouri Politician
  • Vincent Schoemehl - Mayor of the City of St. Louis 1981-1993
  • Phyllis Smith - Television and film actor
  • Bradley J.B. Toben - Dean, Baylor Law School
    Baylor Law School
    Founded in 1857, Baylor Law School is the oldest law school in Texas and has been accredited by the American Bar Association since 1931 and a member of the Association of American Law Schools since 1938. Baylor Law School is affiliated with Baylor University and located in Waco, Texas...

  • Karen Marie Shelton
    Karen Marie Shelton
    Karen Marie O’Connor Shelton is an Internet and Telephony Entrepreneurwho is the CEO and founder of Hairboutique.com, one of the oldest and largest consumer hair portals on the Web. She is also the CEO and co-founder of T&S Software, a telephony software provider of award winning software in the...

     - Internet & Telephony Entrepreneur
  • Clint Zweifel - Missouri State Treasurer

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