Master’s degree in cyber security management launches
Each year, about 431 million adults worldwide are victims of cybercrime, costing $388 billion based on time and monetary loss. The problem is so severe that President Barack Obama recently said “cyber...
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Improving undergraduate STEM education is focus of new national initiative
Washington University in St. Louis is one of eight Association of American Universities (AAU) member campuses selected to serve as project sites for the association’s five-year initiative to improve...
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The Swiss Army knife of salamanders
Alan TempletonInside a cistern in Northern Israel, a hyloid frog (bottom left) shelters together with a splendid pair of fire salamanders (Salamandra infraimmaculata).Every once in a while, a scientist...
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Williams to study climate trends in St. Louis and southeastern U.S.
More frequent sweltering summers, droughts, flooding and extreme weather across the country are expected with our changing global climate. The problem is so severe that the Obama Administration is...
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DNA study reveals clues to human, ape evolution
University of Washington/Institut de Biologia EvolutivaA massive effort to catalog the genetic variation in humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans has helped researchers piece together a model of...
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Discovery of stone monument at El Perú-Waka’ adds new chapter to ancient Maya...
Photo by Francico Castaneda; courtesy of Proyecto Arqueológico El Perú-Waka´y PACUNAM.Stone-carved representation of Maya King Chak Took Ich'aak (Red Spark Claw) who died in 556 AD. Download hi-rez...
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How rice twice became a crop and twice became a weed — and what it means for...
Ken OlsenA sampling of weedy rice strains from an Arkansas rice field.The evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould once asked whether the living world would be different "if the tape were played...
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Anastasio named interim chair of biomedical engineering
Mark Anastasio, PhD, has been named interim chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science.Mark Anastasio Anastasio, professor of biomedical...
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d’Avignon wins 2013 American Chemical Society Award
David Kilperd'Avignon, director the nuclear magnetic resonance facility at Washington University in St. Louis with Xia Ge, a postdoctoral research associate in chemistry.Washington University in St....
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A chance to explore the hottest research topic in St. Louis
St. Louis is known for its plant science, but few of us know what is going on in the labs we drive by on the way to work. Now is our chance to find out.The International Society of Photosynthesis...
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Energy efficiency analysis goes high-tech in I-CARES project
Buildings are energy hogs, consuming more than 40 percent of all energy in the United States. While new buildings may be constructed with sustainability in mind, older buildings must undergo extensive...
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Social amoebae travel with a posse
Joan StrassmannIn 2011, Nature announced that scientists had discovered a single-celled organism that is a primitive farmer. The organism, a social amoeba called Dictyostelium discoideum, picks up...
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Brain's flexible hub network helps humans adapt
Michael Cole/WUSTL Background diagram shows 264 brain regions in the human brain color coded by network affiliation. Center sphere shows networks labeled with their potential functions; lines indicate...
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Protein that delays cell division in bacteria may lead to the identification...
Levin labIn a rapidly dividing chain of bacterial cells (top), constriction rings that will pinch the cells in two appear in red. The red doughnut to the bottom right of the image is a constriction...
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Frédéric Moynier awarded 2013 Kuno Prize
MoynierFrédéric Moynier, PhD, associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has been named the recipient of the 2013 Hisashi Kuno award given by the American Geophysical...
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Wang wins IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award
Lihong Wang, PhD, will receive the 2014 IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award, the highest honor conferred by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in this field.Lihong Wang Wang,...
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Sakiyama-Elbert elected fellow of Biomedical Engineering Society
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, PhD, has been elected to the Biomedical Engineering Society Class of 2013 Fellows.Sakiyama-Elbert Sakiyama-Elbert, professor and associate chair of biomedical engineering, was...
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Remembering to remember supported by two distinct brain processes
You plan on shopping for groceries later and you tell yourself that you have to remember to take the grocery bags with you when you leave the house. Lo and behold, you reach the check-out counter and...
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Lab-made complexes are “sun sponges”
Angeles/WUSTLGraduate student Michelle Harris and research scientist Darek Niedzwiedzki in PARC’s Ultrafast Laser Facility. The laser setup allows them to measure energy transfer steps among pigments...
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WUSTL bucks global trend in female entrepreneurship
A recent report from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor indicates that there are significantly fewer female entrepreneurs than male entrepreneurs around the world.Sarah Haselkorn This is not the case,...
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