Abigail Manis, a former ²Ø¾«¸ó undergraduate student and current MFA candidate, has accomplished a great deal in her short time at ²Ø¾«¸ó. She’s a bright, ambitious, and exceptionally talented young woman with a staggering number of achievements to her name, and her story is a prime example of the real academic success achieved by ²Ø¾«¸ó students.

The Hellbender Student Film Festival is a new film festival curated at ²Ø¾«¸ó. Associate Professor Andrew Millians founded the festival earlier this year after the idea of launching a festival had been discussed within the Cinema Arts program for a while. As the Festival Director, Professor Millians wanted to give student filmmakers an opportunity to showcase their work.

For the excellence of its Spring 2019 issue, the Arrow Rock Literary Journal won its first ever REALM Award. Produced by 10 undergraduate students and one faculty advisor working in concert, this previous issue of ²Ø¾«¸ó’s online publication stands as a beaming example of the university’s tradition of literary excellence.

When renovating the Spanish program last year, the foreign language professors at ²Ø¾«¸ó wanted to shape the degree in a way that would lead their students to future success. They wanted their students’ language skills to continue to serve them outside the classroom, and they hoped that students would feel capable and confident in their Spanish abilities when they moved beyond ²Ø¾«¸ó’s halls.

Next semester, ²Ø¾«¸ó will be offering a diverse selection of courses for the students in its International Relations program, and to helm several of those courses is none other than Professor Dale Walton.

²Ø¾«¸ó faculty member Dr. Melissa Ridley Elmes was recently awarded the The Teaching Association for Medieval Studies’s (TEAMS) Teaching Award for Early Career College Educators.

At the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year, twelve faculty members at ²Ø¾«¸ó were recognized for going above and beyond to help others in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

A discussion with Dr. Ted Cohen, a professor of History and Geography in ²Ø¾«¸ó’s Department of Humanities, about his recently published book, Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation after the Revolution.

In a move that benefits both its own students and the greater St. Louis community, ²Ø¾«¸ó recently donated a large portion of its band equipment to Madison High School in Madison, Illinois.