Blissful Barcelona

Hi, all! I’m back with another post about my experience in Barcelona! I have been here for just over 8 weeks and am slightly over half done with my experience abroad. Over the past few weeks I was able to spend some time getting to know Barcelona…

A Semester in the Life of a Stamps Tiger

Spring semester of my freshman year is off to a busy start! I am continuing my research in the Neurogenic Communication Disorders Laboratory within the School of Health Professions. It’s remarkable to be able to participate in revolutionary research as a first-year student. I’ve enjoyed contributing to work that is changing the way neurodegenerative diseases…

Mandarin at Mizzou

Hello, everyone! 你好 (Ni Hao)! My name is Rebecca Price and I’m a first year Stamps Scholar from Memphis, Tennessee. I’m studying Business and International Studies with an emphasis in East Asia. It’s not even been a full year for me here at Mizzou yet, and there have already been so many wonderful opportunities to…

2019 Stamps National Day of Service

On February 23rd, 2019, Mizzou’s Stamps Scholars participated in the Stamps National Day of Service. The theme for this year’s Day of Service was commUNITY: uniting to serve. As a group, we volunteered at Rainbow House, a youth emergency shelter here in Columbia. Our tasks included organizing the toys in the backyard, cleaning up the…

Mon Été en France!

It has now been a full six months since I departed from Marseille, France, and brought to an end one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I learned more about my future career, lived by myself in an apartment for the first time, nearly missed my flight back home, and made some amazing…

Stamps Weekend 2019

Hi everyone! My name is Caitlin, but you can call me by my middle name, Sunshine. I am a sophomore Stamps Scholar here at Mizzou from Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Two weekends ago, the other current scholars and I got to welcome 28 finalists for the Stamps Scholarship. Sadly, we were missing one of our…

UK Getaway

  Hi, everyone! Back again with my second blog; if you missed the last one, my name is Toyin Jackson. I am a sophomore Stamps Scholar and Food Science major at Mizzou, and I am currently participating in a semester long study abroad program in Barcelona, Spain. The pace of this experience has been moving…

¡Bienvenidos a mi blog!

¡Hola! My name is Toyin Jackson, I’m a sophomore at Mizzou and Stamps Scholar and I am currently participating in a study abroad program in Barcelona, Spain. Last week, I started attending CETT - Campus de Turisme, Hoteleria, y Gastronomia (Campus of Tourism, Hospitality, and Gastronomy). The school is affiliated with the University of Barcelona.…

Visiting the Past to Inform the Present

Between the end of the Civil War and the passage of the civil rights acts of the late 1960s, African Americans endured a century of sustained repression, denial of voting and other rights, and the terrors of lynching. Columbia experienced two lynchings, that of George Burke on September 17, 1889, and of James Scott on…

Jessica Blake – August & September 2018

Wow! It is so hard to believe that it has already been eight weeks, but I am so happy to be settling in at Mizzou. The first half of the semester has been so full of activities and has gone by so fast. It feels like I was just making the long drive from Ohio,…