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Queller installed as new Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology
Mary Butkus/WUSTL Gary Wihl, dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences, presents evolutionary biologist David C. Queller with the medallion that symbolizes his installation as the Spencer T. Olin...
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A+ in outreach: neuroscience students share enthusiasm about brain science
A young girl at last year’s Amazing Brain Carnival listening intently to psychology graduate student Jasin Cox’s instructions on the proper way to touch a real human brain, an experience she is...
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Guérin named chair of Computer Science & Engineering
Roch Guérin, PhD, has been named chair of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, effective July 1, 2013. Roch Guérin Guérin is the Alfred Fitler...
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Water on the moon the topic of 2012 Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lecture...
Maria Zuber, PhD, the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics at the Massachusetts, speaking to students about the eight MoonKAMS on the two GRAIL satellites, a mission that is making a detailed...
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Environmental advocate calls for global movement to solve climate crisis
For decades, author, educator, environmentalist and activist Bill McKibben has been telling us things we don’t want to hear — presenting scary scorched Earth scenarios due to carbon emissions in the...
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SIFT & TERF: Forming young scientists (VIDEO)
Kevin LowderCassandra Galluppi (right), a junior in biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, shares her research at WUSTL’s annual Undergraduate Research Symposium Oct 20....
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Global metabolomic initiative announced
Patti/SUizdalInvestigators at Washington University and The Scripps Research Institute have announced the launch of a “Global Metabolomic Initiative” to facilitate meta-analyses on studies of the...
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Grad students ProSPER with CGI U project on understanding science
Sid HastingsWUSTL students gathered in Brown Hall Nov. 1 for the first Clinton Global Initiative University applicant workshop. Excitment is building at Washington University in St. Louis in...
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Schaal one of three preeminent scientists named as U.S. science envoys
Schaal, PhD, becomes WUSTL’s next dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences in January.On Nov. 8, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the appointment of three new science envoys,...
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Less of a shock
Implantable defibrillators currently on the market apply between 600 and 900 volts to the heart, almost 10 times the voltage from an electric outlet, says Ajit H. Janardhan, MD, PhD, a cardiac...
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Novel process to detect proteins could simplify kidney disease detection
Detecting whether a patient will have acute kidney injury could become as simple as dipping a paper test strip printed with gold nanorods into a urine sample, a team of Washington University in St....
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Gruev receives grant to study, recreate mantis shrimp vision
Mantis shrimp, aggressive, predatory sea crustaceans, have among the most sophisticated vision of all animals. A group of researchers, including Viktor Gruev, PhD, want to recreate that vision to make...
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Mentors for Bear Cub Fund program to help WUSTL scientists commercialize...
In recent years, more than $1.1 million funneled to Washington University scientists through the Bear Cub Fund program has helped move university technologies into the marketplace. To encourage...
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Two Washington University students are Rhodes finalists
Seniors Madelein Daepp, an economics and mathematics major, and Jeremy Pivor, an environmental biology major, were finalists for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.Daepp and Pivor were among 212...
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So BRIGHT, you need to wear shades
Naveen GandraNanostructures called BRIGHTs seek out biomarkers on cells and then beam brightly to reveal their locations. In the tiny gap between the gold skin and the gold core of the cleaved BRIGHT...
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Electric-vehicle chargers installed outside of Brauer Hall
That’s not a new parking meter or air pump for your tires outside of Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall — it’s a charging station for electric vehicles. E. Brook HaleyThe new electric car charging...
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Rough guide to Super-TIGER watching
CREDITSuper-TIGER team members during the five-hour flight in a military cargo plane from Christchurch, New Zealand, to McMurdo Station in Antarctica. The temperature inside the plane is about 50...
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Jun to use novel process to study nanoparticle formation
Sunscreen contains nanoparticles to protect our skin by reflecting hazardous ultraviolet radiation from the sun. But what happens to those nanoparticles when you wash the sunscreen away?Young-Shin Jun,...
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WUSTL gathers global leaders in India to explore sustainable energy access...
Washington University in St. Louis and its academic and corporate partners worldwide are putting research into action and leading a major initiative in Mumbai, India, Dec. 6-12 to address global energy...
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Super-TIGER is up!!!
Richard BoseThe Super-TIGER cosmic-ray experiment had a perfect launch Sunday at 9:45 a.m. New Zealand Daylight Time. The enormous balloon that will carry it to the limits of Earth’s atmosphere was...
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