Two new gardens are helping to beautify Forest Park’s urban campus. Faculty and staff members have planted a butterfly garden in front of A Tower, and this is the second summer that produce is being grown in the cafeteria courtyard. The 20-by-18-foot butterfly garden is a part of the Milkweed for Monarchs Initiative, which is designed to boost declining monarch butterfly populations. […]
Joe Wilson’s trademark line is “no excuses,” a term plastered around his office and repeated in his syllabus. The Forest Park chemistry associate professor was born legally blind, but that didn’t keep him from earning a doctorate degree, becoming an admired teacher and winning a college Innovation of the Year Award in 2014. […]
Katie Rhoades was a 19-year-old stripper in Portland, Ore., when she met a woman who introduced her to a pimp. Three days later, they were on their way to San Francisco. “We were going there for the purpose of prostitution,” said Rhoades, now 34 and living in St. Louis. […]
The sculpture of a man’s head in Forest Park’s Annual Student Exhibition seems to scream with frustration. The piece, called “Emancipation,” won second place in fine arts. It reflects artist Joseph Hellbergh’s belief that people often make life more complicated than necessary. […]
Anatomy and physiology courses can be difficult, particularly if students don’t have access to models of the human body, bones, muscles, organs, glands and blood vessels. That’s not a problem at Forest Park. […]
Robert Babione’s age is often the first thing people notice at Forest Park. “I’m asked by the younger kids if I’m a professor a lot,” said the 76-year-old culinary arts major. “I find it OK, though. It’s refreshing.” Babione is one of many “older” students at Forest Park. Some have returned to college to improve their career prospects. Others are looking to stay busy after retirement. […]
Forest Park student Sejla Grahovic, a Bosnian refuge who has overcome many obstacles, wants to help others better appreciate their own lives. About a year ago, she self-published an autobiography called “While You Played, I Ran.” It’s meant to encourage unhappy teenagers in particular. […]
The Forest Park theater department will present “Discipline 27 II,” a play about the influential jazz piano and synthesizer player Sun Ra. “It sings for his life, his philosophy and his music, said director Mary Hurley, a mass communications professor. “And there will be live musicians.” […]
Sweaty palms during a test are an obvious sign, but math anxiety can take many forms. “One way to identify math anxiety is to ask a set of questions,” said math Assistant Professor Michael Lueke. “A typical question might be, ‘Have you made academic plans based on your anxiety?’ For example, you want to be a doctor, but that requires math, so I will be an art major.” […]
The “N-word” wasn’t always used in a negative way. That’s according to Allen Jones and John Johnson, who gave a presentation called “Origin of the Word Nigger – Its Sacred Meaning” at Forest Park as part of Black History Month. […]
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