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The Gateway Festival Orchestra will conclude its 41st annual season of free summer performances with “Vienna’s Masters,” a concert emphasizing music of composers working in that city, at 7:30 p.m. July 25 in Brookings Quadrangle. The orchestra is conducted by James Richards, professor of music at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The program will open […]

While the persistence and drive of the cyclists in this month’s Tour de France is amazing and impressive, the University has its own world-class endurance athlete in Edwin D. Wolfgram, M.D. And he does more than just ride a bike. Last fall — less than a month before his 71st birthday — Wolfgram came in […]

It gives public-school teachers an opportunity to re-experience the passion of American history as told through primary sources.

The St. Louis Children’s Hospital Child Development Center, which provides quality care and learning enhancement programs at the School of Medicine, has openings for all age groups at both locations. There are immediate openings for kids over 2, and a wait list for infants and toddlers. The center offers year-round flexible programming. Children of employees […]

FieldTurf is being installed as the new playing surface of historic Francis Field, the home of the University football and men’s and women’s soccer teams. The FieldTurf will replace the natural grass that has been on Francis Field since its inception in 1904. The project began in early June and is expected to be completed […]

She was awarded the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, the Yale University Graduate School’s highest honor, at its commencement ceremonies.

The new center is an interdepartmental, interdisciplinary and University-wide program located adjacent to the Genome Sequencing Center.

William P. Bottom of the Olin School of Business will be formally installed as professorship’s first holder at a later date.

H. pylori bound to stomach tissueScientists working to develop a vaccine for the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, the primary cause of ulcers and a contributor to stomach cancers, have uncovered new intricacies in the way the bacterium sticks to the lining of the human stomach.

Joyce and Howard Wood, both alumni of the John M. Olin School of Business, have created the Joyce and Howard Wood Distinguished Professorship in Business. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced the gift of $1.7 million, which has been augmented with $300,000 from the University’s Sesquicentennial Endowed Professorship Challenge. William P. Bottom, Ph.D., will be formally installed as the first holder of this professorship at a later date.