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Campus Resources
Fall 2009

There are many academic resources available to UMSL students. The information below is obtained from individual departments and in most cases is noted on the syllabi of department courses. This information is made available here to connect students to as many services on campus as possible and to give them every opportunity for success. Additional resources may be added when available at a later date.

Accounting- Accounting Resource Lab, 489 SSB                       
Dr. Farmer suggests that all students consult with their instructor for accounting help.  Tutoring for Accounting is a service provided free of charge to Accounting students enrolled in Acct 2400 and Acct 2410.  Upper division students may use the lab as a study space and use the study materials provided by the Accounting faculty for them.  The lab is staffed by students in the Master of Accounting program, Gordon Zhang and Bill Voegtli.
Fall 2009 Schedule
MONDAY                      9:30 a.m. – 12:30 pm and 3:30 -5:30 pm
TUESDAY                     9:30 pm – Noon and 3:15 -5:15 pm
WEDNESDAY               9:30 a.m. – 12:30 pm and 3:30 -5:30 pm
THURSDAY                  Noon – 5:00 pm

Accounting tutor for Acct 2400 Financial Accounting and 3401 Financial Accounting & Reporting 1: Nguyen Ngo, a Finance and Accounting major, ntnypb@umsl.edu Fees for tutoring are worked out between the student and the tutor.

Art History
Supplemental Instruction for Art His 1108 Intro to Arts of Asia - Yolanda Rankins, ydrdcd@umsl.edu

Astronomy
Astronomy tutoring is available in the Physics Learning Center, 516 Benton.  http://www.umsl.edu/~physics/lab/TAInfo/officehours.ht  

Supplemental Instruction for Astron 1050 Intro to Astronomy I - Emily Sudholt, emilysudholt@yahoo.com

Biology
Supplemental Instruction for Bio 1012 General Biology - Michael Dothage, mddcm4@umsl.edu

Supplemental Instruction for Bio 2012 Genetics - Erica Fehrenbach, ejf2rf@umsl.edu

Supplemental Instruction for Bio 3622 Cell Biology- Daniela Blum Morales, dbfqu@umsl.edu  and Natalie Johnson, naj27f@umsl.edu                                      

Chemistry-
Chemistry Learning Center,  Benton 207A                                          
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry


Chemistry Learning Center Schedule              Fall 2009

One graduate student will be available from 9am – 10 am and another from 11am – noon on Friday.

 

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

11 am – 12 pm

closed

closed

Matt Lenze

Pushkar Shejwalkar

Yang Gu

Kenise Jefferson

9am-10am
     and
11am-Noon

1 pm – 2 pm

Darell Hasty

Elena Vasileva*

Ben Martin

Shana Terrill

Dmitry Lipkind

Nichole Curvey

Sitaram Acharya

 

2 pm – 3 pm

Rashmi Sharma

Geeta Paranjape

Abeera Sharma

Uma Mallik*

Mercy Kiiru*

Michael Nance

Swati Nigudkar*

Jay Bhattarai

 

*student available to tutor organic chemistry

Supplemental Instruction for Chem 2612 Organic Chemistry I- Leo Bay, leobay@umsl.edu and Hope Johnson, hopejohnson@umsl.edu

Computer Science - Students interested in finding a tutor for a Computer Science course should contact Kimberly Stanger at 314-516-5743 or Deloris Licklider at 314-516-6355 in the Math/CS department.

Computer Science Lab-316 CCB, for CS1250, 2250 and 2260  http://www.cs.umsl.edu/Schedule/CS1250_2250Tutors.pdf

Economics - Economics Resource Center, 452 SSB, 314-516-4634 - In most instances this is staffed by graduate students in Economics.  The Resource Center is primarily for 1XXX level Econ courses. Hours are 9:00am - 9:00pm, Monday - Thursday; and 9:00am - 2:00pm on Friday; and 1:00pm - 6:00pm on Sunday.

English
Writing Lab-Fall 2009
http://www.umsl.edu/~umslenglish/writing_lab/writinglab.html

Finance
Finance tutor for Fin 3520 Investments, Nguyen Ngo, a Finance and Accounting major, ntnypb@umsl.edu Fees for tutoring are worked out between the student and the tutor.

Finance tutor for Fin 3500 Financial Management is Kanokwan Choketaworn, an MBA student, kch96@umsl.edu Fees for tutoring are worked out between the student and the tutor.

Foreign Languages-
All Foreign Language tutoring is in 555 Clark.  Tutoring in Latin and Arabic is by request only. Tutoring on Friday is by request only. Please contact Jim Karslake at 314-516-6240.

Supplemental Instruction for Japanese 1001 Japanese I - Kayla Strauss, kms8r8@umsl.edu

Time Mon Tues Wed Thurs First Name Language Email
9:00-9:30   German-Laura       Arabic  
9:30-10:00   German-Laura     Zhixiu
Pengyuan
Chinese zlq36@umsl.edu
pz7v7@umsl.edu
10:00-10:30         L'andrill
Celine
Marina
French lob522@umsl.edu
cd5v2@umsl.edu
mvbzp5@umsl.edu
10:30-11:00 Spanish-Kelly       Laura
Sinja-Tamara
German lez63@umsl.edu
ss3rc@umsl.edu
11:00-11:30 Spanish-Kelly Spanish-Lara   Japanese-Kayla Kei
Kayla
Yuki
Japanese kmx8d@umsl.edu
kms8r8@umsl.edu
ytfff@umsl.edu
11:30-12:00 French-Marina Spanish-Lara   Japanese-Kayla Jessica Latin jmhr27@umsl.edu
12:00-12:30 French-Marina       Claudia
Lara
Spanish cpoz63@umsl.edu
llnkd66@umsl.edu
12:30-1:00     Japanese-Yuki   Lucy
Kelly
Spanish lh4hd@umsl.edu
krpymf@umsl.edu
1:00-1:30 Chinese-Pengyuan French-L'andrill Japanese-Yuki French-Celine Mei Spanish msd49@umsl.edu
1:30-2:00 Chinese-Pengyuan French-L'andrill   French-Celine      
2:00-2:30 Japanese-Kei            
2:30-3:00 Japanese-Kei            
3:00-3:30   German-Laura          
3:30-4:00   German-Laura Spanish-Lucy        
4:00-4:30 Spanish-Claudia   Spanish-Lucy
Chinese-Pengyuan
Spanish-Mei      
4:30-5:00 Spanish-Claudia   Chinese-Pengyuan Spanish-Mei      

Information Systems Lab-for IS 1800 and IS 2800
http://www.umsl.edu/~duncanmv/tutor.html

Instructional Computing Labs – hours, locations and policies http://www.umsl.edu/technology/instructionalcomputing/labs/labs.html  

Instructional Computing Short Courses - The Instructional Computing Labs are offering free one hour introductory classes on several computing topics. The classes are designed to help people become familiar and comfortable with these basic technology skills, as they are needed for class work, homework, projects: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, File Management, Adobe Photoshop, Web Page Building, and more.
http://www.umsl.edu/technology/instructionalcomputing/labs/shortcourses.html

Libraries-hours and locations, http://www.umsl.edu/services/library/

Logistics & Operations Management-(LOM)-tutoring is available at no cost to students for LOM 3300 Business Statistics in 213 CCB.
           
Monday and Wednesday, 12:30-3:30pm in 213 CCB or by appointment. Contact Guodong Zhang at gzhang@umsl.edu (He goes by Gordon.)

Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30-6:30pm in 213 CCB Chengcheng Xu (She goes by Sue.)

Logistics tutor for LOM 3300 Business Statistics and LOM 3320 Operations Management is Nguyen Ngo, a Finance and Accounting major, ntnypb@umsl.edu Fees for tutoring are worked out between the student and the tutor.

Logistics tutor for LOM 3300 Business Statistics is Kanokwan Choketaworn, an MBA student kch96@umsl.edu Fees for tutoring are worked out between the student and the tutor.

Management & Organizational Behavior-(MOB)
A Managment tutor for Mgmt 3600 Management & Organizational Behavior: Kanokwan Choketaworn, an MBA student, kch96@umsl.edu Fees for tutoring are worked out between the tutor and student.

Students in need of a tutor in the Management area and willing to pay for a tutor, may contact Dr. James Breaugh. (218 CCB, 516-6287, jbreaugh@umsl.edu)                   

Mathematics-Students interested in finding a tutor for a Math course should contact Kimberly Stanger at 314-516-5743 or Deloris Licklider at 314-516-6355. in the Math/CS department.

Math Lab-425 SSB - The Math Lab can assist students in Math courses through Calculus III.
http://www.cs.umsl.edu/lab/mathlab.html

Math Technology & Learning Center-050 University Center-This Center is designed to assist students specifically in College Algebra, Trig and Basic Calculus.  Hours of operation for Fall 2009 are 8:00a-5:00p Monday-Thursday, http://www.math.umsl.edu/MTLC/index.html      

Online Testing Center - North Campus, 75 J. C. Penney; South Campus, 107 South Campus Computing Building, http://www.umsl.edu/technology/mgwhelp/fachelp/otc.html#summmer

Physics Learning Center/Physics Library, 516 Benton
The Physics Learning Center provides assistance to students enrolled in any Physics course and some Astronomy courses as listed.
http://www.umsl.edu/~physics/lab/TAInfo/officehours.html  

Psychology
Supplemental Instruction for Psych 1003 General Psych - Kacie Pray, kmpnn3@umsl.edu

Teaching Assistants for Psych 2101, Psych Stat:
Amanda Blinebry, Thursday lab, Email: AmandaLBlinebry@umsl.edu Office: 109 Stadler, Mailbox: 326 Stadler, Office Hours: Tuesday, 3:45pm - 5:45pm

Jenna Cox, Wednesday lab, Email:jcc2fb@umsl.edu Office:109 Stadler, Mailbox: 326 Stadler, Office hours: Wednesday, 1:45pm - 3:45pm

Jose Cantt, Friday lab, Email:jac2rb@umsl.edu Office: 109 Stadler, Mailbox: 326 Stadler, Office Hours: Wednesday, 1:45 -3:45 pm

Jennifer Niehoff, evening lab, Email: jan4hf@umsl.edu Office: 109 Stadler, Mailbox: 326 Stadler, Office Hours: Wednesday, 3:30pm - 5:30pm  

A tutor for Psy 2201 Psych Stat, is Shannon Albright, a Graduate student in Psychology, sma5zf@umsl.edu Fees for tutoring are worked out between the student and the tutor.            

Writing Lab, Fall 2009
http://www.umsl.edu/~umslenglish/writing_lab/writinglab.html      

Also, check out the on-line Writing Lab@UMSL on MyGateway!