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Evelyn E. Newman, a creative St. Louisian, has helped launch some of St. Louis’ foremost arts institutions and cultural events. The Spirit of St. Louis Fund, which later evolved into the Arts & Education Council of Greater St. Louis, was founded in her living room. In 1950, she inaugurated the Greater St. Louis Book Fair […]

One of the team’s earliest projects was to see if it’s possible to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it on the ocean floor.

Photo by Bob BostonThe Parkway Hotel has been specifically designed to serve the School of Medicine and Barnes and Children’s hospitals.The staff of the $25 million hotel “has been trained to go out of its way for our visitors,” General Manager April Risk said.

Peanut butter could save the world. If Mark J. Manary, M.D., has his way, that ooey, gooey lunchbox staple might be some kids’ best hope for the future. Manary, associate professor of pediatrics, started a program two years ago that has saved hundreds of starving children in one of the poorest countries in southern Africa. […]

“No studies to date have looked systematically at the psychiatric effects on people who were employed in the towers,” investigator Carol S. North said.

Francis Gymnasium has been home to athletic victories, guest lectures and presidential debates in the University’s illustrious past. In 1918, it even served as a barracks for Vocational Unit, Section B, as World War I drew to a close. Francis Gym, completed in 1903, was one of the buildings used in the third modern Olympic […]

Photo by Bob BostonMichael R. DeBaun shares a smile with Randice Reed, who has sickle cell disease.An $18.5 million NIH grant will fund a study of blood transfusion therapy as a possible treatment for preventing silent strokes.

More than $300 million will be spent to rapidly bring the new knowledge of the human genetic blueprint to the patient’s bedside.

More than $300 million will be spent to rapidly bring the new knowledge of the human genetic blueprint to the patient’s bedside. More about BioMed 21

Photo by Bob BostonJohn F. McDonnell, Larry J. Shapiro, Philip Needleman and Chancellor Mark Wrighton visit at the Nov. 17 news conference announcing BioMed 21.The three-year grant is one of five awarded by the National Human Genome Research Institute to U.S. sequencing centers.