Saint Louis University

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Saint Louis University SLU
motto	Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
founding	1818
Sponsorship	Catholic Church ( SJ )
place	St. Louis , Missouri
president	Fred Pestello
Students	13785 (2010)
Employee	1002
Website	www.slu.edu

DuBourg Hall

Bell tower

The Saint Louis University (also SLU is called) is a private university in St. Louis in the US state of Missouri . With 13,785 students, it is the fourth largest Jesuit college in the United States . It is one of 28 member universities of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and is one of the top five Catholic universities in the United States .

history

The Saint Louis Academy was founded in 1818, making it the oldest Jesuit college west of the Mississippi and the second oldest Jesuit college in the United States. The first doctor of medicine west of the Mississippi was awarded at Saint Louis University. African Americans have been admitted to college since 1943.

structure

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• Department of Biology: Saint Louis University College of Arts and ..
• Engineering, Aviation and Technology: Saint Louis University ...
• Département of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Saint-Louis was divided into:
  • Department of Mathematics and Statistics
  • Department of Computer Science

Sports

The sports teams are called the Billikens . The university has been a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference since 2005 .

Professors

• Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893–1986), Nobel Laureate Medicine / Physiology 1943
• Peter A. Munch (1908–1984), sociologist
• Walter J. Ong (1912–2003), SJ, MA 1941, clergyman, literary scholar and media theorist
• Fritz Schajowicz (1911–1992), bone pathologist
• Kurt Schuschnigg (1897–1977), Federal Chancellor in the corporate state (Austria) , 1948–1967 Professor of Political Science

Graduates

• Felix Biestek (1912–1994), MA 1940, Jesuit priest and university professor
• Enrique Bolaños Geyer (* 1928), BA 1962, President of Nicaragua 2002–2007
• Mary Deconge (* 1933), American mathematician, university professor and former nun in the Holy Order of the Sisters of Saint Francis
• Mark Demling (* 1951), soccer player
• Vedad Ibišević (* 1984), football player
• Andreas Katsulas (1946–2006), BA, actor in The Fugitive and Babylon 5
• Gene Kranz (* 1933), BS 1954, NASA flight director
• Ed Macauley (1928-2011), NBA player
• Brian McBride (born 1972), football player
• Robert Schediwy (* 1947) MA 1971, social scientist and cultural journalist

Web links

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• Official website

Coordinates: 38 ° 38 ′ 11.4 "  N , 90 ° 14 ′ 2.1"  W.

Individual evidence

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3. ^ The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
4. ^ Department of Mathematics and Statistics
5. ^ Department of Computer Science