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Members of the Washington University Effort for AIDS help assemble an 11,000-panel section of the Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, which was displayed in the Field House Oct. 14-16, 1994. The group teamed with the NAMES project and St. Louis Effort for AIDS to bring this portion of the then-27,000-panel quilt to St. Louis and reassemble […]

American artist Frank Stella has remained a prominent and innovative practitioner of abstract painting since the late fifties. Born in 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts, Stella studied painting at the Phillips Academy in Andover and at Princeton University, where he graduated in 1958 with a degree in history. In 1959 he moved to New York and […]

Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker are CEO and vice president, respectively, of Carr Lane Manufacturing Co., one of the world’s foremost suppliers of tooling components. In addition, over the last 30 years their subsidiary Carr Lane Castings — formerly Brentwood Castings, Inc. — has earned a national reputation for fabricating bronze, brass, aluminum, stainless […]

Eric P. Newman of St. Louis is one of America’s foremost numismatists. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS 1932) and Washington University in St. Louis (JD 1935), his storied career began more than eight decades ago when his grandfather gave him an 1859 one-cent piece. In the years since, he has solved […]

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 […]