A Piano Beyond Compare

Playing a Steinway piano is like driving a fine automobile-beautiful to handle and beyond compare. As an All-Steinway School, Webster is cruising into the upper echelon of music programs nationwide. Webster music professor Jeffrey Carter drives a Volvo C30 and student Jason Oestenstad cruises around campus in a Lexus ES 300, but both men go a step higher [...]

Give Us Those Nice Bright Colors

Webster students celebrate the end of a photographic era with Kodachrome End of the Run: Photographs from the Final Batches—an exhibit and book of images. When Webster photography professor Susan Stang walked into her color photography class in May 2010 to give away a few rolls of Kodachrome film from San Francisco photographer Tom Graves, she [...]

Keeping it Real

It’s hard to believe what you can see on TV these days: a couple who are raising 19 children (and claiming they’ll have more), a total home renovation completed in a week’s time, women vying for the attention and affections of a smarmy, er, swarthy bachelor, and a group of twenty-somethings from New Jersey who [...]

Broadway Bound

It’s A Chorus Line of sorts—on a bus. An eclectic mix of 30 Webster University seniors Broadway bound, not an aspiring CEO among them. Instead, these soon-to-be college grads long for a future under the bright lights of Broadway or on sound stages in Los Angeles. They are headed to New York City to perform [...]

He said, if she left, he’d kill her

By taking on controversial parole cases of women who have killed their abusive husbands, Amy Lorenz-Moser ’97 shines a light on the complexities of domestic abuse. Amy Lorenz-Moser ’97 remembers waiting in line for lunch at Webster’s University Center when she saw a man charge into the room and start hitting one of the food [...]

Global Gifts

Merci Beaucoup Alumna Jane Robert (BA ’69) and her husband, Bruce Robert, have donated $1 million to establish the Jane and Bruce Robert Professorship in French and Francophone Studies in Webster’s College of Arts and Sciences. It is one of the largest alumni gifts in Webster’s history and will allow the University to recruit a [...]

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  • Albuquerque, NM

    Albuquerque, NM

    Brig. Gen. Mark W. Westergren, MBA ’89, was promoted to brigadier general in the U.S. [...]
  • Altus AFB, OK

    Altus AFB, OK

    Brig. Gen. Mark M. McLeod, MA ’88, was selected for the rank of brigadier general in the [...]
  • Beaufort AFB, SC

    Beaufort AFB, SC

    Brig. Gen. Thomas A. Gorry, MBA ’93, was appointed to the rank of brigadier general. He currently serves [...]
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  • E. Desmond Lee Visiting Professor for Global Awareness Janaki Rajan. Photo by Stefan Hester (BA '00 St. Louis)

    The Last Word

    Right the Wrong Janaki Rajan, the Webster School of Education E. Desmond Lee Visiting Professor for [...]
  • David Clewell believes you don't have to know iambic pentameter from free verse in order to appreciate the art of poetry. Photo by: Stefan Hester (BA '00, St. Louis)

    Free Poetry Here!

    Missouri 2010 poet laureate and Webster University English professor David Clewell reads more than 24 [...]
  • Point of View [The Elderly]

    Point of View [The Elderly]

    We asked faculty and staff members, students, and alumni across Webster’s global network to tell [...]
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  • WEBCAM

    WEBCAM

    The home office of Brig. Gen. James Hogue (MA ’88, Colorado Springs) Talk about job [...]
  • From left: Webster University student Steward Stiles III, Bishop Phillip Stiles, and Bishop Steward Stiles Sr. meet in the bishop's chambers following Sunday service at the New Jerusalem Church of God in St. Louis. Photo by Josh Maassen, BA '11

    Honors and Awards

    InternationaList Webster’s study-abroad program ranks among the nation’s best, according to Open Doors, a comprehensive [...]
  • Keeping it Real

    Keeping it Real

    It’s hard to believe what you can see on TV these days: a couple who [...]
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  • Graduates celebrate (and tweet) at the Muny on May 7, 2011. Photo by Rebecca Barr.

    Webster Commencement: Twitter Style

    While an early threat of rain may have caused some initial anxiety, the skies cleared and the sun shone on Webster University graduates who gathered at the historical MUNY in Forest Park on May 7 to receive their diplomas. Click here to read a compilation of tweets from students, friends and family, and faculty members.

  • Webster Matters – President Beth Stroble talks to Webster World readers

    Webster Matters – President Beth Stroble talks to Webster World readers

    It might come as a surprise to some people that almost 20 percent of the Webster University student population is made up of members of the military, and that there are more than 25,000 Webster military alumni worldwide, including 500 active-duty generals, admirals, and commanders. Among these notable Webster military alumni are Army Gen. Lloyd [...]

  • Camp Pendleton, Calif.

    Camp Pendleton, Calif.

    Michael Day, MA ’87, is vice president of membership marketing for Access Development. Thomas Melvin, MA ’88, is principal at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad, Calif. He is responsible for educational,vocational, and library services for 4,100 inmates.

  • Bolling AFB, D.C.

    Bolling AFB, D.C.

    Maj. Gen. Jessica L. Wright, MA ’93, was appointed to the Senior Executive Service and assigned as deputy assistant secretary of defense, manpower, and personnel, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Reserve Affairs), Washington, D.C. Courtney J. Edmonds, MA ’94, MBA ’97, was appointed chair of the planning commission for Charles County, Md. He [...]

  • Bermuda

    Bermuda

    Wayne Perinchief, MA ’86, is deputy speaker of the House of Assembly in Bermuda. Sharon Apopa, MA ’01, is executive director of the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute in Bermuda.

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