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HEC wins Overall Excellence

HEC Media is honored to have won seven Mid America Emmy Awards, including the coveted Overall Excellence — a prestigious award HEC was the only station in St. Louis nominated for. It is considered one of the top awards for our industry.
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America's Health Care Crises

Marty Makary, M.D., sits down with HEC’s Paul Schankman to discuss his new book, The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care and How to Fix It. 

Arch Grants Live Streamed Nov. 1

Join us as we celebrate St. Louis innovation and the newest class of Arch Grant recipients! Streamed live on www.hecmedia.org and Facebook, Friday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m.

An evening with author Edwidge Danticat

The St. Louis Literary Award recognizes a living writer with a substantial body of work that has enriched our literacy heritage by deepening our insight into the human condition and by expanding the scope of our compassion. This year, the award is presented to Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer. She is a 2009 MacArthur fellow, a 2018 Ford Foundation “The Art of Change” fellow, and the winner of the 2018 Neustadt International Prize. 
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Ann Leckie on Talking with Authors

SciFi star Ann Leckie is the bestselling author next door. A St. Louis native who still lives and writes in her hometown, Leckie shot to SciFi stardom with her record-breaking debut trilogy. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Inside the Innovation Incubator (IN2)

The Wells Fargo-funded Innovation Incubator (IN2) seeks to connect promising start-up companies around the country with cutting edge science to help move breakthrough technologies closer to the marketplace.

The Midnight Scan Club at Wash U

Neuroscientists are examining the brain in a new way, with a modern twist, in hopes of finding answers to the many mysteries of the human brain. The Midnight Scan Club is a group of Washington University neuroscientists who have taken turns in an MRI scanner late at night, scanning their own brains for hours to generate a massive amount of high-quality data for their research.
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Tootie Speaks!

HEC’s Paul Schankman interviews child star Margaret O’Brien during her visit to St. Louis for a screening of Meet Me in St. Louis, in which she played Tootie.

Bioactive glass helps with broken back

In cases of broken backs, a newly FDA-approved biologic agent called NanoFUSE is helping to grow bone around braces once a spinal fusion surgery is performed.

Keeping art alive with the Belleville Mural Project

In the spirit of keeping the arts alive and boosting the resurgence of Belleville, Illinois, area merchants, residents, local artists and the City of Belleville collaborated to create a series of murals on the sides of local businesses throughout the downtown area.
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Rembrandt Era on view at SLAM

“Dutch Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” presents a visual history of a newly independent Netherlands during the 17th century. The exhibition features seventy paintings by such artists as Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals, Gerrit Dou, Jan Steen, and Jacob van Ruisdael.
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About HEC Media

St. Louis’ four time winner of the Station Excellence Emmy Award and the world's foremost creator of distance learning, HEC Media is the metropolitan area's leading producer of education, arts, and cultural programming. HEC can be seen on Spectrum 989, AT&T U-verse channel 99, over-the-air digital channel 2.2, and anytime on www.hecmedia.org. 

HEC Media's mission is to "Strengthen and promote the education, arts, and cultural communities in theSt. Louis metropolitan area."

For more information, contact Christina Chastain, Marketing and Strategic Partnerships Manager, at [email protected].

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