Newsroom Stories

The Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging is hosting the 2009 Friedman Conference April 21 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

A symposium commemorating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birthday will be held March 30 in Moore Auditorium from 1-5 p.m.

Photo by Ray MarklinStudents learn ballroom dancing in preparation for the annual Med Ball, held March 14 at the Hyatt Regency at the Riverfront.

Prostate cancer screening tests don’t appear to reduce deaths from the disease among those with a limited life expectancy, a new study shows.

Photo by Robert BostonAt Match Day March 19, 111 School of Medicine students learned where they will do their residencies, including Timothy and Molly Tran, who will both be at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

The dance sensation Diavolo return to St. Louis and perform two shows for the Edison Theatre OVATIONS Series, as well as a special matinee for the ovations for young people series.

“Leningrad,” a seminal performance in post-Stalin Soviet Union, will be replicated Monday, March 30, by the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Community Partnership Program.

Photo by Mary ButkusFashion is fun, challenging, inspiring and everywhere. It is also hard work. On Sunday, March 29, 11 seniors and seven juniors from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts — home to the nation’s oldest four-year fashion design program — will present the fruit of their labors in the school’s 80th Annual Fashion Design Show Sunday.

Tracy Davis, the Barber Professor of Performing Arts at Northwestern University and president of the American Society for Theatre Research, will present the 2009 Helen Clanton Morrin Lecture at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 1.

Detectives on television shows often spray crime scenes with a compound called luminol to make blood glow. Researchers at the School of Medicine have applied the same compound to much smaller crime scenes: sites where the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues.