CELect course allows students to make positive impact on local startup companies
St. Louis is becoming widely recognized as a successful hub for startup businesses, with a wide range of groups and services that provide a support network for budding entrepreneurs.WUSTL students are...
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Putting the squeeze on rocks
SKEMER LABThe rock deformation apparatus Skemer has built in his lab. The yellow frame is a commercial hydraulic press rated at 100 tons and the black cylindrical object poking out to the bottom right...
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Students win international University Physics Competition
A team of juniors in Arts & Sciences won the Gold Medal in the international University Physics Competition. The students were (from left): Ryan Endsley, a physics and mathematics double major,...
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Jubel gift will create new home for WUSTL’s Department of Mechanical...
Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotosDon and Karen JubelA major commitment by Donald Jubel, on his family's behalf, to honor his late parents will provide the impetus for the next phase of physical expansion for...
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'Evo devo' expert returns to campus
Mary butkus/WUSTL Photos (2)Sean B. Carroll, PhD (above center), vice president for science education at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a WUSTL alumnus (AB '79) and one of the country's foremost...
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Patti wins Sloan Research Fellowship
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced Feb. 17th that WUSTL’s Gary Patti has been awarded a 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship. He is among 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers selected as...
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Nobel laureate neuroscientist Eric Kandel explores art and the mind/brain for...
What happens in your brain when you look at Viennese Expressionist artist Gustav Klimt’s famous 1901 painting “Judith”?A lot more than you might guess, according to neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, MD....
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Frey wins teaching award
Regina (Gina) F. Frey, the Florence E. Moog Professor of STEM Education, has been honored with an Excellence in Teaching Award from Emerson Electric Co. Frey, PhD, whose primary appointment is in...
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3-D printer creates transformative device for heart treatment
James Byard/wustl photosIgor Efimov, PhD, the Lucy & Stanley Lopata Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, works with Sarah Gutbrod, PhD candidate in biomedical engineering in the...
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Earth and moon's origins are topic of 2014 McDonnell Distinguished Lecture
Leroy ChiaoThe full moon above Earth's horizon and airglow. Photographed by Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao on the International Space Station on Feb. 24, 2005. Alex N. Halliday, PhD, a professor...
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Maple trees on campus tapped for class — and brunch
KRISTA BaKer/bon appetit(top), Sid Hastings/WUSTL Photos (bottom)Students tapped maple trees on the Washington University in St. Louis campus, and they collected berries on the South 40 and acorns in...
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2014 Leopold Marcus lecture by Nobel laureate
Victor W. ChenRoger Tsien in his office on his first day as a Nobel laureate. Roger Tsien, PhD, who, together with two other scientists, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for the discovery and...
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New drugs for bad bugs
James Byard/WUSTL photo servicesChemist Timothy Wencewicz has been studying the plague of antibiotic resistance since he was a college student. The only way out, he says, is to come up with drugs that...
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Research aims to improve repair of rotator cuff injuries
A nanoscale elemental map is shown of collagen fibrils in a mineralized region of bone. The images on the top show carbon-rich regions (i.e., collagen) in green and calcium-rich regions (i.e., mineral)...
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Anthropology sweeps the boards in St. Louis FameLab competition
Sid Hastings/WUSTL Photos (6)Joseph Orkin, a graduate student in anthropology, describes using a dog named Pinkerton to find the droppings of black-crested gibbons on forest floors in China. Orkin is...
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Grad, professional students present research while honing communication...
Sid Hastings/WUSTL PhotosAnna Hood (right), a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow in psychology in Arts & Sciences, explains her work to judge Taryn Marashi, a graduate student in Islamic studies, also in...
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Meditation on the brain
Mary Butkus/WUSTL PhotosNeuroscientist Richard Davidson, PhD, explains the positive impact of contemplative practices such as meditation on brain activity. Behind him is an image of a Tibetan Buddhist...
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From high school dropout to landing Curiosity on Mars: Adam Steltzner on how...
NASA called it “seven minutes of terror.” In August 2012, the world watched to see if the Mars Curiosity rover, a one-ton robot hurtling toward the red planet at 13,200 mph, would gently land on the...
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A novel mechanism for fast regulation of gene expression
Whitney Curtis/WUSTL PhotosYehuda Ben-Shahar, PhD, assistant professor of biology, (left) and Xingguo Zheng, a PhD candidate in neuroscience and co-author on the paper, examining fruit flies in the...
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Scientists find a molecular clue to the complex mystery of auxin signaling in...
Graduate student David Korasick commuted between the Strader Lab, which specializes in genetics, and the Jez Lab, which has expertise in structural biology, to learn how plants control the effects of...
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