Lindenwood University hosted its sixth annual GIS day Tuesday, Oct. 1, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Anheuser-Busch Leadership Room at the Spellmann Center. GIS Day, a national event, provided an opportunity to showcase the varied applications of Geographic Information Systems right here in the St. Louis region.

The week of Sept. 21, four Lindenwood students attended and presented their work at the annual Midwest Regional Neuroscience (or Midbrains) Conference at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill.

Lindenwood University Adjunct Instructor Lawrence McClain, who teaches cybercrime in Lindenwood University’s Criminal Justice program, will appear as an interviewee on Dateline NBC in an episode devoted to a high-profile 2016 murder case involving a woman named Pamela Hupp. The episode will air in St. Louis at 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 27, on KSDK channel 5.

For the fifth year, the U.S. Small Business Administration launched the Growth Accelerator Fund competition for the nation’s most innovative and promising small business accelerators and incubators to compete for monetary prizes of $50,000 each.

Researchers in the Exercise and Performance Nutrition Laboratory at Lindenwood University, led by Richie Stecker and international colleagues, recently published a review on the impact of when certain nutrients are ingested and how they may impact health and performance.

Lindenwood University President John R. Porter was the subject of a profile piece as part of the St. Louis Business Journal’s St. Louis Character series. The profile is available online to digital subscribers and will be in the Sept. 20, 2019 printed edition of the Business Journal.

ITEN and the Research Innovation Group in the Office of the Vice President for Research at Saint Louis University are excited to announce their new partnership aimed at enhancing and broadening services for the tech startup companies and innovators they serve.

Lindenwood University’s J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts will host an International Poster Design exhibition featuring the work of Polish artist Kaja Renkas and her colleagues, Katarzyna Kroczek-Wasinska and Malgorzata Luczczak, from Oct. 7 to Nov. 8, 2019, in the center’s Boyle Family Gallery.

Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Mo., is entering into a partnership with Wiley Education Services, a division of Wiley (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb) to market and recruit students for its online degree programs. The partnership will increase focus on expanding and growing enrollment in online degree offerings at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

The fall 2019 semester at Lindenwood University has begun with more than 1,200 first-time students, continuing an upward trend going back to the fall 2018 semester at the St. Charles-based university. The first-time student group included traditional freshmen and transfer, international, and online students.