alumna Jennifer Tappenden, 2012, reads her poem “Making Glass” Feb. 12 in the Millennium Student Center at the third annual Excellence in Science Award Dinner. UMSL’s holds the event to honor nearly 40 St. Louis-area high school juniors who have demonstrated outstanding performance in the sciences. Tappenden was the university’s inaugural poet laureate in 2012 and is the founding editor of , an independent literary press that produces printed poems.
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Reviewed 2013-06-21