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SIMS laboratory dedicated
Sid Hastings/WUSTL PhotosDavid Fike, PhD (left), WUSTL associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, explains the new secondary-ion mass spectrometer (SIMS) to Jerrold...
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Huang wins this year’s Spector Prize
Courtesy photoSpector Prize winner Deborah Huang works in the lab. Each year, the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis awards a prize to a graduating...
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WUSTL students ‘print’ pink prosthetic arm for teen girl
Courtesy photoWashington University in St. Louis seniors (from left) Kranti Peddada, Kendall Gretsch and Henry Lather designed and built a robotic prosthetic arm for 13-year-old Sydney Kendall (center...
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IDEA Labs teams unveil medical innovations
PHOTOS BY ALLISON BRAUNIDEA Labs is a student-run bioengineering design incubator that brings together students from across the university to solve problems in health care with innovative solutions. At...
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Genin named Global Scholars Fellow at Tsinghua University
Genin Guy Genin, PhD, has been named a 2014 Global Scholars Fellow at Tsinghua University in Beijing.The award will allow Genin, a professor of mechanical engineering in the School of Engineering &...
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WUSTL to race wild strain of amoeba in World Dicty Race 2014
Scott SolomonA forest of the fruiting bodies of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. An amoeba that must succeed at both single-celled and multicellular living to pass on its genes, "Dicty"...
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Winners of Bear Cub grants announced
Robert BostonWith Bear Cub funding, William G. Hawkins, MD, is developing a new treatment for pancreatic cancer.Scientists developing new drugs, diagnostic tests or other technologies often struggle to...
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Up close with the WUSTL-affiliated Arch Grants winners
Representing social entrepreneurship, technology, business, education, biomedical science and design, eight Washington University in St. Louis-affiliated teams are among the 20 startups receiving 2014...
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Eight of 20 Arch Grants winners are affiliated with the university
Representing social entrepreneurship, technology, business, education, biomedical science and design, eight Washington University in St. Louis-affiliated teams are among the 20 startups receiving 2014...
View ArticleTwo teams share $25,000 Discovery Competition top prize
http://youtu.be/_WreqPYIvsYProjects to provide low-cost eyeglasses for people in the developing world and to develop a cell-death detector will share $25,000 to further develop their projects as...
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Grad student co-directs film about the game of Go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irGmbwqqUNsAll Go players know about the Blood-Vomiting Game, a four-day-long game of Go played in Japan in 1835. The match featured three “ghost moves” allegedly...
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Aubreya Adams' photo album - Part 3
1 | 2 | 3 Feb. 4, 2014: Each year during the summer, the ice near the bases melts away, but how quickly this happens varies from year to year. Scott Base, which it lies just seaward of the boundary...
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Aubreya Adams' photo album - Part 2
1 | 2 | 3 One day, I got to tag along with another team to do a test installation of posthole seismometers (seismometers directly buried in the snow with no vault). This involved taking a piston-bully...
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As the heat of summer settles on St. Louis, here’s a gust of cold air from...
1 | 2 | 3Jan. 13, 2014: After 30 hours of flying and running around airports, I made it to Christchurch, New Zealand, the jumping-off point for much of the U.S. Antarctic Program. McMurdo Station,...
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Humans have been changing Chinese environment for 3,000 years
Known as the “cradle of Chinese civilization,” the Yellow River was the birthplace of the prosperous northern Chinese civilizations in early Chinese history. However, the Yellow River is also referred...
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Jennifer Lodge appointed vice chancellor for research
LodgeJennifer K. Lodge, PhD ('88), associate dean for research and professor of molecular microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been appointed vice chancellor for...
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Obituary: Albert Baernstein, professor emeritus of mathematics, 73
BaernsteinAlbert Baernstein II, professor emeritus of mathematics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died at his home on Tuesday, June 10, 2014. He was 73. He came to...
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PARC wins renewed funding for photosynthetic research
Sid Hastings/WUSTL PhotosBob Blankenship, PhD, director of PARC and the Lucille P. Markey Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, announcing at an...
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How repeatable is evolutionary history?
Genevieve Hay Evolutionary biologist Ken Olsen and Cynthia Vigueira, then a postdoctoral associate in the Olsen lab, examine white clover in the Washington University greenhouse. One morph of this...
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Washington People: Jessica Wagenseil
Ron KleinJessica Wagenseil, DSc, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, is investigating how mechanical properties of the cardiovascular system contribute to high blood pressure. One in...
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