Traveling from from Zurich this graduate student spent over a week at University Archives and made extensive use of the Monsanto Company Records as he studied the history of saccharin and its introduction to the market.

Mo Speller, WU Department of Special Collections Travel Grant Recipient, is a PhD candidate in History at Johns Hopkins University whose research is focused on 19th and 20th century U.S. History.

Dr. Thomas Adam is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington whose research and publications focus on the place of philanthropy in modern American and European societies since 1800. Currently, he is working on a study of funding for undergraduate education at American universities and colleges from 1800 to 1945. For this study, he selected 35 colleges and universities from across the country including Washington University in St. Louis, which he visited in August 2012.

Dr. J. Terrence (Terry) Farris from Clemson University visited and utilized the various St. Louis Mayors' Collections several times. At a 2012 discussion of his archival research, Dr. Farris noted the Mayors’ records to be a treasure trove of information. The records are very comprehensive of the work of each mayor had with various agencies, and include incoming and outgoing correspondence, reports, press releases, proclamations, speeches, subject files, and more. He plans to continue to learn from the past in his research and is excited to pass this on to others through writing peer-reviewed research articles and a book on redevelopment history in St. Louis.