Now three years later, that baby has grown up – and grown up quite well. FULL STORY

‘Webster Ignited a Fire’
Wisc. Supreme Court Justice and ’72 alumna reflects on courage

The Honorable Justice Ann Walsh Bradley’s (’72) journey from a small southwest Wisconsin town to a seat on her state’s Supreme Court included a lot of courage and a none-too-insignificant stop at Webster University, which was then known as Webster College.

For Bradley, the daughter of a bartender in a “dry” town, neither of her parents had gone to college, though they knew it was important for her older brother to attend.

But their daughter? In the 1960s? Not really on the radar. FULL STORY

Mary Preuss
Assistant Professor | Biological Sciences

Plant cell biologist Mary Preuss arrived at Webster in summer 2009 as a full-time faculty member in the Biological Sciences department. Diving right in, in her first year she’s teaching Essentials of Biology, Virology, and supervising senior research students, among other duties. Her husband is also a plant biologist at Monsanto, but their two children are a little too young to declare whether they’ll enter the family field.

Global Thinking sat down with Preuss to learn a little more about her. FULL STORY