‘News’ Archives
Campus climate survey assessing diversity will soon become available to UMSL community
The University of Missouri -- St. Louis community will soon have the opportunity to express its feelings about the diversity and reception of diversity at UMSL. This opportunity will come from an email campus climate survey designed by a special representative committee of faculty and students as [...]
News at Noon
“News @ Noon” on March 12, 2012 brought students and faculty together to discuss St. Louis' obsession with one question: “Where did you go to school?” This question refers specifically to high school. After discussing this phenomenon, attendees went on to discuss the societal causes of this [...]
Statehouse Sisters presents at UMSL in for women’s history month
On Monday, March 12, 2012, at the Millennium Student Center, the University of Missouri - Saint Louis hosted Statehouse Sisters in honor of women’s history month. Statehouse Sisters is sponsored by the Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life in partnership with the Des Lee Collaborative [...]
Recent bipartisan shows boil down to increased partisanship in motivation
Partisanship has recently fluctuated in American politics at state and national levels, stagnating government and impacting bipartisanship. This is advantageous to the party that controls the legislative body, to the dismay of some minority party legislators. Partisan politics have [...]
Human Y chromosome no longer in decline, study shows
After the human genome was first sequenced, the next big announcement was that the Y chromosome seemed to be shrinking. The idea that the chromosome that determines maleness might be disappearing, leaving women on their own in reproduction, caused some concern in the news media. Scientists [...]