The Graduate School

Graduate Student Research Presentiations and Publications


2006

Maryann Coker
2+3 Sociology

Second Place in the Missouri Sociological Association (MSA) Graduate Student Paper Competition for 2006. Her paper is entitled, "Ripped from the headlines: Will New U.S. Education Law Handicap the Handicapped?" October 2006

Papapida Pornsuriyasak
Ph.D. Chemistry

Award for oral presentation at the International Carbohydrate Symposium , July 2006, Canada

2005

R. Michael Barnett
M.A. History

Citation of his thesis research (M.A., 2004), "Jesus among the Middle Waters: American Christian Missionaries and the Osage Nation, 1820-1920" (supervisor: Dr. J. Frederick Fausz) may be found in a book review of W. H. Rollings' Unaffected by the Gospel: Resistance to the Christian Invasion, 1673-1906, in Great Plains Quarterly 25:3, Summer 2005.

Ellen Pandolfo
M. A. History

Presented a paper, "From Little Dixie to Liberty: The trial and triumph of a Missouri slave family" at the panel of Civil War Missouri, which was chaired by Dr. Louis Gerteis on April 15, 2005, for the 47th Annual Missouri Conference on History, held at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, MO. (Ms. Pandolfo is the President of the History Honors Society UMSL Branch and currently holds a Teaching Assistantship at History Department.)

Maksymilian Szostalo
M. A. History

Co-author with Dr. Steve Rowan, "The Baron in West County: Baron F. W. von Egloffstein in St. Louis, 1850-1853." in Gateway Magazine, summer, 2005. (Mr. Szostalo completed his History MA at UMSL and is pursuing PhD at University of Toronto.)

Mikall Venso
M. A. History

Presented a paper, "James E. Yeatman, St. Louis' Compassionate Philanthropist of the Civil War", at the panel of Civil War Missouri, which was chaired by Dr. Louis Gerteis on April 15, 2005, for the 47th Annual Missouri Conference on History, held at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, MO. (Mr. Venso is a graduate student in the History-Museum Studies MA program.)

Roger Wilke
M. A. History

Presented a research paper "Memoirs of a World War II Quartermaster: Oral-history interviews" at the session of Interactive Presentation of Original Research in the Annual Graduate Research and Education Fair sponsored by the UMSL Graduate School on April 18, 2005. (Mr. Wilke is a graduate student in History MA program, while his presentation, including historic documents and photo-pictures, was based on his year-long research for History 4004 Senior Seminar under Dr. Winston Hsieh’s guidance.)