The students of the Pierre Laclede Honors College are a remarkable group of high-achieving and involved individuals who make significant contributions to campus and the community.
Read about current students and recent graduates of the PLHC and how the Honors College impacted their lives in college and beyond.
Lucy Grimshaw
UMSL graduate Lucy Grimshaw earns Fulbright scholarship to further her passion for social justice abroad
Heela Momand
The Honors College and biology student aspires to become a doctor practicing visibly in a hijab in order to help other Muslim women and change perceptions and be there for other Muslim women.
Faith Clark
Cybersecurity student Faith Clarke has been selected for the SANS Diversity Cyber Academy. Clarke will be working to earn a GSEC certification in security essentials, a GCIH certificate in incident handling and an elective GCFE certificate in forensics examination.
Ibrahim Shabazz
After graduating with his undergraduate degree in accounting as well as an Honors College certificate, Ibrahim Shabazz will return to the College of Business Administration this fall to start on his Masters in Accounting.
Joe Retzer
Honors College student Joe Retzer is heading to SLU Law with a full-tuition scholarship after his expected graduation from UMSL in May. He became interested in politics during the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election.
Sharon Pruitt-Young
Experiences such as serving as the editor of the UMSL student newspaper The Current and writing for the Pierre Laclede Honors College publication Brain Stew helped Sharon Pruitt-Young launch a career as a writer.
Aleathea Williams
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation intern discovers pull toward civic engagement at UMSL
Bailee Warsing and Tim Bragg
Student entrepreneurs and business owners.
Danielle Friz
Campus Compact selected College of Nursing student and Pierre Laclede Honors College community service representative Danielle Friz as one of its 2019 Newman Civic Fellows.
Trenton Conway
Trenton Conway, who graduated with a BSN, is pursuing a DNP at UMSL so he can be a more knowledgeable advocate for his patients, such as the ones he tends to during his church’s regular mission trips to Haiti.
Nicole Gevers
From PLHCSA president to engineering student advisory board member, Nicole Gevers wears many hats at UMSL. But perhaps her favorite is proud first-generation college student.
Ashley Westbrook
Ashley Westbrook is headed to law school after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in political science and pushing through the rare, incurable kidney disease that has challenged her health since freshman year at UMSL.
