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3:08 pm

Wed October 26, 2011

UMSL conference explores "Science in the City"

Credit (University of Missouri-Saint Louis)

By Véronique LaCapra

The University of Missouri-Saint Louis kicks off its 17th annual "What is a City?" conference on tomorrow. This year’s two-day conference is all about the relationship between cities and science.

Topics range from how to develop science-based public policy to how to think about a city as an artificial life form.

ART - SCIENCE

6:30 am

Thu September 29, 2011

UMSL exhibition explores the nexus of art and science

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Credit (Terry Suhre, director, UMSL Gallery 210)

Artist Brigham Dimick with part of “Waxworks 2,” a series of three self-portraits that include observation hives with live honeybees.

Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)

“Waxwork 2: Observation Hive #2,” 2007. A jar with sugar water at the bottom left provides food for the bees.

Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)

Close-up of Waxwork 2. Dimick exchanges the live bees for new ones every week, so that no individual bee is on display for more than a few days at a time.

Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)

Artist Greg Edmondson with a number of his graphite drawings, collectively titled “Simple.”

Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)

Close-up of an Edmondson drawing. Edmondson says he wants to make it difficult for the viewer to choose a focal point in his work.

Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)

A sculptural piece by Edmondson, entitled “Empty Gesture,” 2009. Pencil, vellum, tape, and staples.

Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)

Ronald Leax with works in his “The History of Culture Series,” 2011, which is an homage to great microbiologists from the 17th century to the present day.

Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)

Close-up of Leax’s work entitled “Robert Koch, 1843-1910, “One Microbe, One Disease.” The petri dishes contain dyed agar and penicillin molds that were once alive.

Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)

This sculptural work by Leax includes a sheep's brain contained in a laboratory flask.

By Véronique LaCapra

There’s an unusual art exhibition going on right now on the campus of the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

The exhibition showcases three artists from the St. Louis region whose work blurs the lines between art and science.

St. Louis Public Radio’s Véronique LaCapra talked with the artists and the show’s curator, and produced this sound portrait of the exhibition.

Mo. universities in China

8:59 am

Thu September 22, 2011

Mo. universities to get foothold in China

Credit (St. Louis Public Radio)

The University of Missouri-St. Louis will pair with Missouri University of Science and Technology to design courses for a new school in China

By Bill Raack

Two of Missouri's public universities will be partnering with a college in China to open a new university in the central part of the country.

The University of Missouri-St. Louis and Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla will work with Tianfu College in Mianyang, in Sichuan Province, to open Sichuan Missouri University.

Science Blogging

6:35 am

Mon August 1, 2011

St. Louis blogger helps inner city youth find "on-ramp" to science

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Credit (Alecia Hoyt Photography - www.aleciahoyt.com)

Danielle Lee has been blogging about science since 2006.

Credit (Danielle Lee)

Lee blogs about science you can see in your neighborhood park or backyard. Here, she holds a young goldfinch.

By Véronique LaCapra

Listen

The text that follows is a condensed version of a longer interview, which you can listen to above.

Science blogger Danielle Lee is on a roll.

The Memphis native recently got her Ph.D. in animal behavior at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

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