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Deja vu all over again? Cultural understanding vs. horrors of eugenics
Arthur Estabrook Papers, University at Albany, SUNYPrison mug shot of Edgar (V428) and corresponding entry in The Jukes in 1915, by A.H. Estabrook (photo laid in copy of R. Dugdale's The Jukes). Why is...
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New mobile app helps students track campus shuttle
Joe AngelesVinoo Ganesh, left, a senior in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, explains the mobile app he developed, “WUSTL Circulator,” to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton in his office on...
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WUSTL leaders urge action on sequester threat
Wrighton Echoing recent concerns regarding the “fiscal cliff,” Washington University in St. Louis administrators are urging Congress and the White House to reach a compromise to avoid wide-ranging,...
View ArticleEngineers Week to feature Edward Jung and Mythbusters
Engineers Week 2013 is packed with a variety of events celebrating engineers. The week, founded by the National Engineers Week Foundation, begins Monday, Feb. 25, and is designed to increase the...
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New device better traps viruses, airborne pathogens
Washington University engineering researchers have created a new type of air-cleaning technology that could better protect human lungs from allergens, airborne viruses and ultrafine particles in the...
View ArticleWatching molecules grow into microtubes
Sometimes the best discoveries come by accident. A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, headed by Srikanth Singamaneni, PhD, assistant professor of mechanical engineering &...
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Bayly, team get $2.25 million grant to study brain mechanics
Washington University in St. Louis engineering researchers have received a five-year, $2.25 million grant to better understand traumatic brain injuries in efforts to improve methods for prevention and...
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Chancellor brings magic to MySci Resource Center opening (VIDEO)
Joe AngelesSusan Flowers (left), assistant director of the Institute for School Partnership (ISP), releases confetti amid the revelry of a smoke machine as the ISP celebrated science and the opening of...
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Ancient sea lamprey gets DNA decoded
JERAMIAH SMITH, UNIV. OF KENTUCKY What can we learn about human evolution from an eel-like creature with a sucker-shaped mouth?...
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Global NeuroDay is March 2
The NIH Human Connectome ProjectPartial view of the wiring in the brain with neurons color-coded according to the direction they run. There could hardly be a more auspicious time for NeuroDay, part of...
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Walking in the footsteps of 19th- and 20th-century naturalists, scientists...
Public domain image (created by the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility)Pollen grains from a variety of common plants. Both plants and insects depend on insect pollination, but so do people. Without...
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When it rains these days, does it pour?
There’s little doubt — among scientists at any rate — that the climate has warmed since people began to release massive amounts greenhouse gases to the atmosphere during the Industrial Revolution.But...
View ArticleKelleher receives Sloan Research Fellowship
http://youtu.be/c3iPrqVeh2ECaitlin Kelleher, PhD, Hugo F. and Ina Champ Urbauer Career Development Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering, has developed Looking Glass, which she created to...
View ArticleWang to study oxygen consumption in cells with NSF grant
When scientists study cells, they need to know how much oxygen each cell consumes to determine its metabolism. However, existing technology limits this study to groups of cells, not individual cells....
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Stardust in the laboratory the topic of 2013 McDonnell Distinguished Lecture
NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) and NOAO/AURA/NSFImage by Michelangelo or by Hubble? A tiny fraction of the dust that which makes such...
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Saturday Science takes a paradoxical turn
The popular Saturday Science seminar series celebrates its 20th year by tackling paradoxes, those fascinating little conundrums that are sometimes just words colliding but other times are cracks in...
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Skulls of early humans carry telltale signs of inbreeding, study suggests
View of the Xujiayao site (below) and internal and external view of the Xujiayao 11 skull piece with its position indicated on the drawing of a complete skull (above). Buried for 100,000 years at...
View ArticleNew faculty join School of Engineering
Nine new faculty members have joined the WUSTL School of Engineering & Applied Science this academic year. That marks the largest number of newly recruited faculty to join the school. The new...
View ArticleNew engineering breakthrough may answer host of medical questions
In an engineering breakthrough, a Washington University in St. Louis biomedical researcher has discovered a way to use light and color to measure oxygen in individual red blood cells in real time. The...
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The secret lives of the wild asses of the Negev
Alan TempletonThe wild asses of the Negev are extremely wary of people, but Brian Hampton, who studies Australia's wild horses (in t-shirt) was able to get close enough to dart this male, called...
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