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VA Research Funding Slashed

1 year 7 months ago
Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.
Suzanne Gordon

A Cut Above the Rest: Robert Jerome Wilkinson

1 year 7 months ago
EDITOR’S NOTE: In order to bring a plurality of voices to our storytelling, the Missouri Historical Society frequently asks guest writers to contribute to History Happens Here. The views and opinions expressed by guest contributors are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Missouri Historical Society, its affiliates, or …
Brittany Krewson

Ballpark Village Developer Chosen to Remake St. Louis’ Millennium Hotel

1 year 7 months ago
From The St. Louis Post Dispatch:  ST. LOUIS — Downtown’s long-vacant Millennium Hotel will be demolished to make way for luxury housing, offices, an amphitheater, food hall and other amenities in a project officials say will transform the St. Louis skyline. The Cordish Cos., the firm that developed Ballpark Village with the St. Louis Cardinals, […]
Rachel Finan

St. Louis Attorney and McGurk’s Pub Founder Jim Holloran Dies

1 year 7 months ago
From St. Louis Post Dispatch:  Longtime St. Louis attorney and founder of Soulard’s John D. McGurk’s pub James “Jim” Holloran died Wednesday. He was 81. Holloran grew up in St. Louis’s Tower Grove Park with nine siblings. He obtained both an engineering degree in 1964 and a law degree in 1968 from St. Louis University. […]
Rachel Finan

SIU-E Works to Engage Women in Engineering

1 year 7 months ago
From The Intelligencer: One-fourth of all engineering degrees are currently awarded to women at the nation’s colleges and universities, and a Feb. 22 event in Edwardsville aimed to improve upon that number. Dozens of teenage girls interested in one of the most in-demand career fields attended Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day at the Southern Illinois […]
Rachel Finan