The Young Alumni Award recognizes the accomplishments of ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø alumni who graduated in the last 10 years. Recipients are up-and-coming talents and have demonstrated outstanding promise for contributions to ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø and the greater community. Recipients have been active with events within the Alumni Association, networking opportunities, fundraising, and student recruitment.

Abigail Manis, a former ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø undergraduate student and current MFA candidate, has accomplished a great deal in her short time at ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø. 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 ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø students.

The Hellbender Student Film Festival is a new film festival curated at ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø. 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 ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø’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 ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø 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 ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø’s halls.

Next semester, ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø 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.

²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø 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 ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø 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 ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø’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, ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø recently donated a large portion of its band equipment to Madison High School in Madison, Illinois.