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Football team loses opener at Mount Union The football team dropped its season opener, falling at No. 2 Mount Union College, 33-7, Sept. 3. The Purple Raiders scored first with 3:23 left in the first quarter. Mike Zimmerman connected on a 40-yard field to put the Purple Raiders up 9-0, then he hit a 22-yarder […]

Opened to external users in June, the Open Network Laboratory has already registered users from 14 different institutions.

The chimp genome’s remarkable closeness to the human genome will make it a powerful tool for comparative genetics. More medical news

Alan Glass loves being a University administrator, but his passion is helping students. “I’m incredibly happy when the exam room door closes and it’s just me and the student and I’m their physician,” said Glass, M.D., director of the Student Health and Counseling Service. Though Glass spends much of his time managing the 50 employees […]

Photo by Kevin LowderMore than 30 people volunteered as guides on the first days of classes to help new students find their way around campus.

He’s the author of the Academic Bill of Rights, a manifesto intended to protect academic freedom by removing partisan politics from the classroom.

Photo by Kevin LowderMany in the University community are pitching in to help bring relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

The award-winning Uhan Shii will also offer a public performance at the Saint Louis Art Museum auditorium at 7 p.m. Sept. 23.

Carl Phillips, professor of English and African & African American Studies, both in Arts & Sciences, has won two prestigious poetry awards — The Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry — for his recent collection The Rest of Love: Poems (2004).