Author: Neil Schoenherr

Chapman”Television and the internet are creating an American Idol-like atmosphere around the 2008 election,” says Richard Chapman, a veteran producer and screenwriter for film and television. “It’s all about personality and narrative and who has the best story, as opposed to who has the best grasp of the issues.” Champman is available to discuss television and the 2008 presidential campaign.

Elizabeth Armstrong, curator of “Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury,” will discuss the exhibition at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Barbara Flagg, J.D., professor of law, has been named the John S. Lehmann Research Professor for 2008-09. The Lehmann professorship allows scholars to concentrate on in-depth research projects while relieving them of teaching and administrative duties during a semester. During her research leave, which began in August, Flagg will be completing a book titled “The […]

A team of researchers headed by biologists at Washington University in St. Louis has sequenced the genome of a unique bacterium that manages two disparate operations — photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation — in one little cell during two distinct cycles daily.

The Bear Necessities store, located in the Wohl Student Center, has launched a weekly “Wonderful Wednesdays” sale.

Registration is open for the School of Medicine’s Mini-Medical School, now in its 10th year. This is an excellent opportunity to learn about medicine and surgery from the School of Medicine faculty.

Jeffrey G. Catalano, Ph.D., Carl F. Craver, Ph.D., Gabriel de Erausquin, M.D., Ph.D., Donald L. Elbert, Ph.D., and more…

Students are invited to show their creativity in this election season by entering the Make it Clear multimedia competition, a collaboration between the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Vice Presidential Debate Programming Committee.

The Office for International Students and Scholars is seeking volunteers to participate in a pair of community-connected programs that promote international friendships and further cross-cultural awareness.

A narrow region on chromosome 15 contains genetic variations strongly associated with familial lung cancer, said a study conducted by scientists at School of Medicine and other institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom.