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Photo by Joe AngelesAn environmentally friendly “green roof” — containing grass, native plants and approximately 110,000 pounds of soil — opened last week on the South 40 House. The roof shelters a loading dock, kitchen and other areas of the South 40 House’s southern lower level.

Photo by David KilperA worker installs one of seven wind turbines on the roof of the University’s Corner Building on Skinker and Delmar boulevards Sept. 18.

President Barack Obama has asked Roger Beachy, Ph.D., president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, to lead a new federal agency that will transform the way that plant science research is funded in the United States.

A frog fungus is causing patterns of extinction among the frog population of Central America.

The age at which a person takes a first drink may influence genes linked to alcoholism, making the youngest drinkers the most susceptible to severe problems.

School of Medicine researchers have launched an online registry that aims to help children with a severe type of epilepsy that strikes in infancy.

Tumor growth can start from stem cells in the gut, say School of Medicine researchers studying fruit flies.

A recently identified gene allows immune cells to start the self-destructive processes thought to underlie multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.

David J. Murray, M.D., has been appointed as chief of the Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology.

Nominations of School of Medicine faculty for the 2009 Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Awards in Medical Student Education are due Oct. 12.