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Photo-palooza
Jerry Naunheim Jr./WUSTL PHOTOSMore than 1,000 science researchers descended upon St. Louis during the second week of August for what Provost Holden Thorp, PhD, wittingly referred to as “Photo-palooza”...
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What historians have to say about global warming
This is the first in a series of articles that describe how scholars at Washington University in St. Louis are bringing their varied skills to bear on the issue of climate change and global...
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Missouri ponds provide clue to killer frog disease
Travis Mohrman/Tyson Research CenterA green frog, Rana (Lithobates) clamitans, in a pond at Washington University's Tyson Research Center. In Missouri, this frog’s tadpoles are often infected with the...
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'Evo-devo' trailblazer Brian Hall to give Assembly Series lecture
HallScientific discoveries in understanding how body structures change and advance over time are relatively recent and are the result of scientific trailblazers working in the field of evolutionary...
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Weighing the Antarctic ice sheet
This is the second in a series of articles that describe how scholars at Washington University in St. Louis are bringing their varied skills to bear on the issue of climate change and global...
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Engineer's $3.5 million grant aims at improving survival of cancer patients
Lihong Wang's research is dedicated to the development of novel imaging technologies. The photoacoustic microscopy image shows a melanoma tumor. Such an imaging capability is expected to play an...
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Renowned Internet copyright lawyer, political activist Lawrence Lessig to...
LessigLegal scholar, author and political activist Lawrence Lessig, JD, is such a popular speaker that it’s challenging to get him for one lecture, so Washington University in St. Louis is doubly...
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Remembering Rita Levi-Montalcini
Becker Medical LibraryLevi-Montalcini in her laboratory in the early 1960s.Members of the Washington University in St. Louis community will gather at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, in the Ginkgo Room of Olin...
View ArticleClimate change expert to speak at Washington University
This year's Albert P. and Blanche Y. Greensfelder Lecture is titled "Climate Change and Human Health." The lecture will be at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, in Simon Hall, May Auditorium. The speaker is...
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Connecting high school biology teachers with the latest in science research —...
Margo HathawayScience teachers Rachel Gordon, from Pope John Paul II High School in Hendersonville, Tenn., and Michael Hoffman, from Shakopee High School in Shakopee, Minn., both students in WUSTL's...
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Efimov research will ‘revolutionize implantable device therapy’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMji7hqs498A video image from an animal model of arrhythmia, which resembles a tornado that continually rotates. Although an irregular heartbeat is a common malady in the...
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Global leaders to gather in St. Louis to strengthen U.S.-India connection...
Leaders from two of the world’s top research universities and several major international corporations will gather in St. Louis Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 19-20, for the Washington University in St....
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Cowsik installed as James S. McDonnell Professor of Space Sciences
Mary Butkus/WUSTL Photos Following his installation ceremony as the James S. McDonnell Professor of Space Sciences in Arts & Sciences, Ramanath Cowsik, PhD (center) visits with (from left) John F....
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Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics to focus on social networks
Courtesy of Cornell UniversityJon Kleinberg, PhD, the Tisch University Professor at Cornell University, will deliver the American Mathematical Society’s 2013 Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics at 5...
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Ignorance is sometimes bliss
Courtesy of Wausberg In honeybee colonies, bees do not distinguish between siblings and half-siblings. If genetic relatedness were the only thing that mattered, bees would be more helpful to bees that...
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Frost flowers will bloom soon
alan templetonFrost flowers, delicate ribbons of ice extruded from the stems of plants, form the night of the first hard freeze and vanish as soon as they’re touched by the warmth of the sun.Alan...
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Gill, Lu to promote safety of cars, planes and other cyber-physical systems
Gill Christopher Gill, PhD, has received a four-year, $398,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to promote the improved safety of cyber-physical systems.Working with Chenyang Lu, PhD, Gill...
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WUSTL researchers developing hospital patient early-warning system
Nearly 20 percent of hospital patients are readmitted within 30 days of discharge, a $15 billion problem for both patients and the health-care system. Under the federal Affordable Care Act, Medicare is...
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WUSTL, UMSL celebrate 20 years of engineering education
William Danforth, chancellor emeritus of Washington University in St. Louis, speaks at a reception marking the 20th anniversary of the University of Missouri-St. Louis/WUSTL Joint Undergraduate...
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For Holocaust Memorial Lecture, Sarah Wagner tells how DNA technology helped...
Wagner Before the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992, Bosnia was historically a multiethnic region of mostly Christian Orthodox Serbs, Muslim Bosniaks and Roman Catholic Croats. After the breakup, Serbian...
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