Newsroom Stories

Jennings High School students enjoy lunch April 25 in Rebstock Hall during a DNA Science Days field trip.

The University’s international students, faculty and researchers should carefully consider traveling outside the U.S. — particularly if a new visa is needed.

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He died at his home from complications of Shy Drager disease Saturday, April 26, 2003.

Researchers at the Genome Sequencing Center in the School of Medicine sequenced the virus in what is possibly record time — less than a week.

Employees who wish to use the University’s employer-assisted housing program now have some options in an area of the city of St. Louis.

While most of the world works to contain the spread of the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) in the School of Medicine has become part of the international effort to understand the microbe. Researchers at the GSC were called upon to sequence the new virus and poorly understood human pathogen. They completed the task in what is possibly record time — less than a week.

Photo by Joe AngelesFashion Show May 4Art in Motion, the 74th annual School of Art Fashion Show, will take to the catwalk at 8 p.m. Sunday, May 4, at Saint Louis Galleria. The fully choreographed, Paris-style extravaganza features dozens of professional and volunteer models wearing more than 100 outfits created by the School of Art’s 11 senior and nine junior fashion design majors.

Junior Lisa Gordon leads a tour of the Hilltop Campus during the University’s April Welcome.

Japanese ceramicist Masayuki Miyajima recently led a daylong workshop on “The Traditions of Pottery” in the School of Art.