New freshmen, facilities, faculty fellow on the Forty

An impressive class of 2003 has taken up residence on campus in the past week, its 1,399 members coming from a record 17,109 applicants. Applications were 6 percent higher than last year's.

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Freeman family has new address in Gregg House

Granted, it's not the only dorm room that will feature a regular afternoon nap. And it might not be the only one that favors Winnie-the-Pooh decor. But diapers? Something definitely smells funny here...

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Wonder in the night sky

Look up Gary Kronk's name in the campus directory, and you won't see "author" or even "professor" after his name. But Kronk, a systems manager at the Medical School Library, has just completed his third book on astronomy.

According to Cambridge University Press, which will publish the book this fall, "Cometography: A Catalog of Comets" is "the most complete and comprehensive collection of data on comets available." Brian G. Marsden, Ph.D., world expert on comets and a member of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., wrote the forward.

From sources as diverse as ancient Babylonian accounts and monastic histories written in the Middle Ages, Kronk compiled historical comet observations, often translating them from various languages into English. He then combined them with current detailed astronomical information to create an unprecedented reference for professional and amateur astronomers alike.

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The river returns

Work now under way to restore the historic waterway in St.Louis' 123-year-old Forest Park is a key element in a $150 million master plan developed by John Hoal, associate professor of architecture.

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Occupational therapists take innovative program to Belize

The scene was one part MacGyver, one part Mother Teresa.

Last month, 66-year-old Roy Rivers climbed aboard a rickety bus for a winding eight-hour bus ride through the countryside of Belize in Central America. A year earlier, a stroke had effectively cost him the use of his left arm -- and his livelihood as a fisherman. Periodically, Rivers made the long sojourn to a clinic for some rudimentary physical therapy.

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