In findings published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Saint Louis University researchers and colleagues report that elephants play a key role in creating forests which store more atmospheric carbon and maintaining the biodiversity of forests in Africa. If the already critically endangered elephants become extinct, rainforest of central and west Africa, the second largest rainforest on earth, would gradually lose between six and nine percent of their ability to capture atmospheric carbon, amplifying planetary warming.

An upcoming symposium at Saint Louis University seeks to bring together students with government and industry leaders to look at open-source software, social media and national security. The symposium will be held Thursday, March 30.

Representatives from Jesuit universities recently came together on the Saint Louis University campus for the U.S. Central and Southern (UCS) Province Higher Ed Leadership Gathering. Provincial Thomas P. Greene, S.J., and other UCS Province leaders met with university presidents, provosts, mission officers, and rectors on Jan. 13-14 in DuBourg Hall's Pere Marquette Gallery, where they discussed key priorities for higher education.

Launched two years ago, the Initiative is focused on a number of business, technology and engineering programs that are attractive to a worldwide audience of prospective students. This spring’s enrollment success is the result of multiple departments and divisions at the University working collaboratively to expand the reach of SLU's educational mission.