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A Star is Born! 5 Things to Know About UMSL This Week

UMSL student Lydia Vaughan is extra busy these days balancing her school work, a part-time job and a thriving music career. She has a new single out called "Speechless."

While the dog days of summer are keeping many people indoors, there is still a lot of activity going on at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

Here are five highlights of things happening at UMSL.

  • UMSL student Lydia Vaughan is making waves on the St. Louis music scene. The 19-year-old communication major from O’Fallon, Mo., has been very busy promoting her first single “Speechless.” She also recently rocked the set of KTVI (Channel 2).

  • The UMSL community has lost a great leader with the passing of Arnold Grobman, who served as UMSL's chancellor from 1975 to 1985. In 1975 he expanded the young institution’s academic mission to include the colleges of optometry and nursing. He died July 8 in Gainesville, Fla., at the age of 94.

  • Traveling the globe is nothing new to UMSL alumnus Sean Hanebery. Having spent time living in London, France, Germany and the United States, he didn’t hesitate when offered the opportunity to move to Prague. Hanebery, BSBA international business 2007, recently became the business development manager of the Prague branch of Consolidated Graphics in the Czech Republic, a commercial printing company.

  • When the rest of their friends are sleeping this summer, hundreds of high school students are lining up for 8 a.m. classes for the UMSL Bridge Program, the university’s award-winning precollegiate program now in it’s 26th year. A recent story in the St. Louis Beacon chronicles Bridge’s history and some of the reasons for its extraordinary success.

  • Please touch the art! You won’t find any signs asking the public to keep its distance at the current exhibit of photographer and UMSL alumna Rebecca Haas, BFA 2010. The Florissant, Mo., resident’s photography exhibit “Synesthesia,” will be on display until July 21 at ArtDimensions at 2720 Cherokee St. in St. Louis.

 

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UMSL is the largest university in the region. More than 16,000 students from 48 states and 62 countries are enrolled with 50,000 additional students enrolled in non-credit continuing education programs. It employs more than 1,400 full-time and part-time teaching and research faculty members. While its graduates have taken leadership roles nationally and internationally, their influence remains centered in the St. Louis region. More than 75 percent of UMSL’s 80,000 graduates still live and work in the region.

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