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The Saint Louis University Chess team are once again champions. The Billiken squad, reigning national champions, finished the 2023 Collegiate Chess League (CCL) fall season with a dominant win. In the finals on Sunday, Nov. 19, SLU topped the University of Texas at Dallas 11.5-4.5. The win means the Billikens claimed both the spring and fall CCL titles. SLU's chess team has become a national powerhouse since its founding in 2016, winning multiple national titles. The team trains in a recently renovated space in Morrissey Hall.

Saint Louis University will hire 20 new faculty members over three years in core geospatial science and related fields in an ambitious cluster hiring initiative. The initiative will advance TGI’s vision to become the nation’s leader in geospatial research, fueling innovation and creating the next generation of talent in the burgeoning field of geospatial science and technology. “Saint Louis University and the Taylor Geospatial Institute are committed to making the St. Louis region the nation’s academic leader in geospatial science research,” said SLU Provost Michael Lewis, Ph.D.

Ricardo Wray, Ph.D., professor of behavioral science and health equity, was named a 2024 Climate and Health Scholar by the National Institutes of Health, beginning a year-long research fellowship to combat climate change and its public health consequences. “I made an argument that communication is important to fund because it brings an interdisciplinary perspective and a wide range of inquiries and methods that can effectively contribute to understanding, informing and achieving behavioral, social and systemic change that are central to understanding and mitigating links between climate change and health," Wray said.