Medicine is the subject of scrutiny lately because of the health care debate. A new study from the National Health Institute is attempting to identify biological, environmental, social and other trends in human development.

Dr. Guoqiang Li is an Assistant Professor teaching Physical Optics and Optometry. He received his Ph.D from Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He worked at the University of California-San Diego before joining the University of Missouri-St. Louis. 

Survival of the fittest. You hear this phrase all the time to sums up Darwin’s theory of natural selection, the way in which species evolve. Individuals of a species that have traits that make them better adapted to their environment have a greater chance to survive and leave more offspring, increasing the chance of that trait among members of the species.

University of Missouri-St. Louis economics chair David Rose has been at UM-St. Louis since 1985. Dr. Rose is from St. Louis and received his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Virginia. Rose contributes often to on-air debates with radio and television networks, including KMOX.

Beginning Feb. 9, those who signed up for Gmail account got a message offering Google Buzz as an extra service. Buzz is Google’s latest attempt at creating competition for sites like Facebook and Twitter in the social networking world, and it is linked directly to users’ Gmail accounts.
Buzz provides connectivity similar in function to that (more)