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Ray Arvidson offers updates on Mars rover missions
With all the fanfare about Mars rover Curiosity landing safely on the Red Planet on Aug. 6, it’s easy to forget that there’s already a rover on Mars — an older, smaller cousin set to accomplish a feat...
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Double Vision: Hybrid Medical Imaging Technology May Shed New Light on Cancer
LiHong V. Wang et al./Nature Medicine Simultaneous photoacoustic (a) and ultrasound (b) images of a rabbit esophagus show the clarity and detail gained by combining the two imaging techniques (c)....
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Center for Biological Systems Engineering kicks off with symposium
Ron KleinDebajit Saha, PhD, postdoctoral research associate, and Barani Raman, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, work in the Systems Neuroscience & Neuromorphic Engineering...
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WUSTL grads play key roles in NASA rover missions to Mars
Is it curiosity that drives the graduates of Washington University in St. Louis, or is it the graduates of Washington University who drive Curiosity? Take a close look at the roster of research...
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Monsanto grants $2.2 million to help expand MySci at WUSTL
Washington University in St. Louis’ Institute for School Partnership (ISP) has received a $2.2 million grant from the Monsanto Fund to take the institute’s cornerstone program, MySci, to the next...
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Wang receives $3.8 million NIH Director’s Pioneer Award
Lihong Wang, PhD, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award to explore novel imaging techniques using light that promise significant improvements in biomedical imaging...
View ArticleWUSTL faculty member part of national initiative to change undergraduate...
The Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE) announced Sept. 7 that Kathryn Miller, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington...
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Using cognitive science to improve STEM teaching is conference focus, Sept....
Developing new and innovative approaches for the teaching of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is the primary goal of an interdisciplinary conference to be held Sept. 27-28 at the...
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New Discovery Competition offers $25,000 prize to undergraduates for...
Washington University undergraduate students with great solutions to problems can win $25,000 to take their innovative ideas from concept to their own business. The School of Engineering & Applied...
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Intrinsically disordered proteins: A conversation with Rohit Pappu
Joe Angeles/WUSTL Rohit Pappu, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Biological Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis looks at proteins with...
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Engineering gets $1.3 million in grants for clean-burning coal technology
Washington University WUSTL engineers working in the Advanced Coal and Energy Research Facility, designed for the development and testing of new technologies for large-scale combustion applications,...
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Jeremy Rifkin offers his vision of the coming ‘third industrial revolution’...
According to international economic forecaster and social observer Jeremy Rifkin, the world witnessed the end of the modern era in July 2008, when geopolitical and socioeconomic forces sent the cost of...
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Tomb of Maya queen K’abel discovered in Guatemala
El Peru Waka Regional Archaeological Project (2) The carved alabaster vessel (shown from two sides) found in the burial chamber caused the archaeologists to conclude the tomb was that of Lady K’abel....
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Washington People: Tiffany Knight
Tiffany Knight, PhD, associate professor of biology and director of the Environmental Studies Program in Arts & Sciences, with Leucaena leucocephala in Hawaii. Hawaii is one of the most...
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Online test estimates ‘Face-Name Memory IQ’
How skillful are you at remembering faces and names? Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are inviting the world to take part in an online experiment that will allow participants to see...
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A complex logic circuit made from bacterial genes
Just as electronic circuits are made from resistors, capacitors and transistors, biological circuits can be made from genes and regulatory proteins. Engineer Tae Seok Moon's dream is to design modular...
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I-Cares day, Oct. 19, to feature talks by Raven, Kidder
C. Mayhew & R. Simmon (NASA/GSFC), NOAA/NGDC, DMSP One of the iconic images of our time is the Earth at night, as seen here in a composite made by Dept. of Defense meteorological sateillites. The...
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Open access to be celebrated next week
The Washington University Faculty Senate recently adopted a formal open access resolution that places renewed focus on the dissemination of new knowledge and asks WUSTL faculty to seek out publishers...
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Moon was created in giant smashup
http://youtu.be/50gxyyU0V7UThis artist’s conception of a planetary smashup whose debris was spotted by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope three years ago gives an impression of the carnage that would have...
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Scat-sniffing dog helps save endangered primates
A scat-sniffing dog by the name of Pinkerton may be the best friend ever for a small, highly elusive group of endangered monkey and gibbon species now scrambling for survival in the vanishing forests...
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