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Photo by Tim Parker(From left) Sam, Dylan and Ashley Mopkins showcase the scarves they made for their mom at the Arts as Healing program.It offers patients’ children the opportunity to take an active, artistic role in the healing process while providing a group support network.

The Esperanza Award is given by the Hispanic Leaders Group of Greater St. Louis; Braxs is coordinator of community service for students of Spanish.

The Supplier Diversity Initiative annual report for fiscal year 2004 shows the University is continuing to make great strides.

The animated adult series featuring a dysfunctional family has been nominated for an Emmy award and has a strong following.

A team headed by Craig Pikaard has discovered a fourth kind found only in plants, thought to have been around for more than 200 million years.

Gesturing as if turning sections of a large object over his head, Michael A. Province, Ph.D., tries to communicate the scope of his research field. “It’s like we’re all manipulating different parts of a huge, multidimensional Rubik’s cube,” he says. By “we,” Province means the worldwide community of geneticists, biostatisticians, physicians and molecular biologists who […]

Such analysis may one day be a primary diagnostic tool for physicians deciding on a treatment course for trauma and other critically ill patients. More medical news

The conference will explore the many barriers to economic prosperity and well-being for America’s working poor.

Photo by Kevin LowderRelay for Life March 19-20 involved 153 teams and raised more than $224,000 for the American Cancer Society.

A bacterium that lives in the human gut adaptively shifts more than a quarter of its genes into high gear when its host’s diet changes from sugar to complex carbohydrates. This not only allows the bacteria to survive rapidly changing nutrient conditions but also helps maintain the stability of the gut’s highly complex microbial society, according to WUSM researchers.