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Washington University to re-establish sociology department
Washington University in St. Louis is re-establishing its sociology department after a nearly 25-year hiatus, Barbara A. Schaal, PhD, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, has...
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What's so hard about counting craters?
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IDEA Labs Demo Day April 18
KINOCOM/JOSHUA SIEGELA team of IDEA Labs students presented KinoCOM, a communication device controlled by finger movements for people with limited mobility, at Demo Day 2013. The team will present an...
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Washington People: Bill McKinnon
James Byard/WUSTL PhotoS Bill McKinnon, PhD, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, lists as his top research interests the icy...
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Robots on Mars
sid hastings/WUSTL PhotosWhen Adam Steltzner, PhD, NASA’s engineer in charge of the Mars Curiosity rover sky-crane landing, was on the Washington University in St. Louis campus recently to deliver an...
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Ancient nomads spread earliest domestic grains along Silk Road, study finds
Photo Credit: Michael Frachetti (2011)Panoramic view of the Byan Zhurek valley and setting near Tasbas, AfghanistanCharred grains of barley, millet and wheat deposited nearly 5,000 years ago at...
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Groundbreaking optical device could enhance optical information processing,...
In an optical diode, the light input in one direction is transmitted while the light input in the opposite direction is blocked. The new optical diode, designed by Lan Yang and her collaborators, is...
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WUSTL students shine in math competitions
Ron FreiwaldShoulder to shoulder stand WUSTL undergraduate mathematicians: (from left) junior Alan Talmage; seniors Stephen Rong and Jason Zhang; junior Yu Tao Li; and sophomores Fangzhou Xiao and...
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Tinianow to receive 2014 Stalker Award
Tinianow Alex Tinianow has been selected to receive the 2014 Harrison D. Stalker Award from the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. This award is named...
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Moon receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Scientists often use things in nature as a model to make new things, such as using birds as models for airplanes. One engineer at Washington University in St. Louis is using a basic cell as a model to...
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The story of animal domestication retold
Image courtesy of J. PonsonbyShorthorn bulls named St. John and Gaudy in this painting by Thomas Freebairn Wilson are products of human control over breeding. The fascination with livestock improvement...
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Genetic study tackles mystery of slow plant domestications
Donald Knuth/Ethnobotanical gardens/CC LicenseThe changes that took place as this plant was domesticated were so dramatic that its ancestry became a mystery for many decades. The plant is teosinte, now...
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Danforth Fellowships in plant sciences announced
Jerry Nauheim Jr./WUSTL PhotosPetra Levin (left) and Joseph Jez, pictured in the Department of Biology's greenhouse on the Danforth Campus, are co-directors of the graduate program in Plant and...
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More questions than answers as mystery of domestication deepens
Sid Hastings/WUSTL Photo ServicesWashington University biologist Ken Olsen, who studies the genetic basis of evolution in plants, and archeologist Fiona Marshall, whose research focuses on animal...
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Science of learning book offers tips to 'Make it Stick'
An untold story emerging from cognitive psychology research is that many of us have been going about learning and memorization in all the wrong ways. That’s a central message of “Make it Stick: The...
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WUSTL team wins People’s Choice Award at 2014 Rube Goldberg
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A protein key to the next green revolution sits for its portrait
Sid Hastings/WUSTL PhotosSoon Goo Lee and Joseph Jez examine crystallization wells in the cold room of the Jez lab at Washington University in St. Louis. Each well holds a different solution of...
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University makes major solar commitment
James Byard/WUSTL PhotosA section of one of the solar arrays installed on the roof of North Campus. Click here for a high-res version. Washington University in St. Louis is moving forward with a bold...
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Displaying depth, breadth of undergrad research
Sid hastings/WUSTL Photos (2)Michael Lory, a marketing and entrepreneurship major in Olin Business School and a psychology minor in Arts & sciences, explains his research on the most effective ways...
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Taking flight
JERRY NAUNHEIM JR./WUSTL Photos (2)Alex Kueser (above, left), Jacob Massmann and Tommy Kueser, all of Eureka High School in southwest St. Louis County, prepare their plane for launch during the Boeing...
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