were the toast of the town in their “Greatest Show on Turf” days. They won the 2000 Super Bowl and were heavy favorites to win again in 2002, until a second-year quarterback named Tom Brady led a last-minute drive culminating in a game-ending field goal and a 20-17 New England win.

After that, football in St. Louis was never the same.

The Rams got old and the glory days faded into a five-year stretch starting in 2007 when they went a dismal 50 games under .500, 15-65. Attendance dropped. Georgia Frontiere, the St. Louis native who brought the franchise to her hometown in 1995, died in 2008 and Kroenke, a minority owner since the relocation from Los Angeles, bought the team two years later.

At first, the native Missourian denied anyThe proposed Program will help address the shortage of veterinarians who are trained for independent research. It will support veterinarians during the first three years of their PhD training. It will draw applicants by advertising in part with methods that have been successful in attracting students from veterinary schools from across the country to participate in our T35 Summer Research Fellowship Program. Veterinarians will apply through Stanford University's flexible admissions process and choose a home program in the biological sciences from one of the twelve that are already established. We expect most students to join one of three large, interdepartmental programs: Cancer Biology, Immunology, and Neurosciences. We will accept one trainee per year. Trainees will enroll in the curriculum of their established home program and choose a PhD