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1910 – First business school west of the Mississippi River
1925 – First department of geophysics in the Western Hemisphere
1927 – First federally licensed school of aviation
1929 – First woman Ph.D. graduate, Mother Marie Kernaghan
1944 – First university in Missouri to establish an official policy admitting African-American students
1949 – First co-ed classes, in the College of Arts and Sciences
1955 – Marguerite Hall, first women's hall of residence, opens.
1967 – First major Catholic university to give lay and clergy people combined legal responsibility for institutional policy on its board of trustees.
1972 – First human heart transplant in the Midwest
2013 – First Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in aviation in the world awarded
== Campus ==
SLU's campus in Midtown, St. Louis consists of over 273 acres (110.5 ha) of land, with 129 buildings on campus. This area is split between two locations along Grand Boulevard. The north campus (or Frost Campus), located just north of I-64, is the site …
