Newsroom Stories

Excavation efforts continue at Skinker and Forest Park Parkway; and concrete work continues at the two other new stations adjacent to University campuses.

Photo by Mary ButkusEdward S. Macias was installed Dec. 1 as the inaugural Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences.

He was named an assistant professor in 1951 and promoted to associate professor in 1957; he retired as emeritus in 1987.

Researchers have calculated that the precise isotopic structure of xenon in the sample reveals an operation that worked like a geyser.

The power generators appear to remodel and consume extra internal walls or membranes in an effort to supply energy to the rest of the cell.

The Olin School of Business awarded a total of $70,000 in seed investment capital to two startup businesses.

Scientists found significant differences in two bacterial organisms’ use of a gene linked to processes that govern a form of antibiotic resistance.

For Bart Hamilton, it’s all about the questions. It’s the quest for answers that drives Hamilton, the Robert Brookings Smith Distinguished Professor in Entrepreneurship for the Olin School of Business, to teach, research and mentor. A professor of economics, management and entrepreneurship at Olin School since 1996, Hamilton jams his time between classes with researching, mentoring students and junior faculty, and taking care of his 11-month-old twins, Bogdan and Nina. “I love doing research. I come to work every day challenged,” Hamilton says. “This is the best job in the world.”

He has been awarded an honorary fellowship in the internationally recognized Royal College of Surgeons of England.

The Center for Mental Health Services Research in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work will celebrate its new designation Jan. 11.