Newsroom Stories

Photo by Joe AngelesAn environmentally friendly “green roof” — containing grass, native plants and approximately 110,000 pounds of soil — opened last week on the South 40 House. The roof shelters a loading dock, kitchen and other areas of the South 40 House’s southern lower level.

Photo by David KilperA worker installs one of seven wind turbines on the roof of the University’s Corner Building on Skinker and Delmar boulevards Sept. 18.

President Barack Obama has asked Roger Beachy, Ph.D., president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, to lead a new federal agency that will transform the way that plant science research is funded in the United States.

A frog fungus is causing patterns of extinction among the frog population of Central America.

Tumor growth can start from stem cells in the gut, say School of Medicine researchers studying fruit flies.

A recently identified gene allows immune cells to start the self-destructive processes thought to underlie multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.

David J. Murray, M.D., has been appointed as chief of the Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology.

Nominations of School of Medicine faculty for the 2009 Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Awards in Medical Student Education are due Oct. 12.

Photo by Robert BostonCentral Visual and Performing Arts High School students participated in an exercise in natural selection during a visit to the medical school Sept. 14.

The acclaimed indie troubadours GrooveLily return to St. Louis for a pair of performances of “Sleeping Beauty Wakes” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 2 and 3, as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS Series.