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WUSTL engineer helping unravel mystery of traumatic brain injury
The American Academy of Neurology issued new guidelines last week for assessing school-aged athletes with head injuries on the field. The message: if in doubt, sit out.Phil Bayly With more than 3...
View ArticleSussman to outline critical role of culture in understanding society
“The anthropological concept of culture is extremely important and often misunderstood because many of the things that are assumed to be biologically determined, like criminality or homosexuality or...
View ArticleWUSTL wins 2013 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest College Nationals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxbyL6AkohA&feature=youtu.beWinning Rube Goldberg contraption hammers a nail with maximal inefficiency. Not only did the contraption, constructed by a four-member...
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Painted turtle gets DNA decoded
Tracey Haynes Photographs, traceyhaynes.comTurtles have evolved slowly, a new study confirms. Decoding the genome of the western painted turtle reveals new clues to turtles’ longevity and the ability...
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Avoid impulsive acts by imagining future benefits
Why is it so hard for some people to resist the least little temptation, while others seem to possess incredible patience, passing up immediate gratification for a greater long-term good? The answer,...
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A meteorite mystery
Stefan RalewOne of 35 meteorites of mysterious origin found in the Moroccan desert. This piece weighs 100 grams. The alphabet block to the right is a centimeter on a side. Early in 2012, someone in...
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Two environmental activists to give sustainability lecture April 10
Two prominent environmental thinkers and activists will address climate change, biodiversity and pollution during an upcoming lecture at Washington University in St. Louis.The lecture, titled “To Hell...
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Mapping lava tubes in the Galàpagos
Aaron Addison A lava tube once filled with red-hot magma flowing down a volcano dwarfs the cavers exploring it. The keyhole profile of this lava tube, on the volcanic island of Santa Cruz. suggests the...
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Katims to receive 2013 Stalker Award
KatimsAndrew Katims has been selected to be the recipient of the 2013 Harrison D. Stalker Award given each year by the Department of Biology.The prize is named in the honor of the late Harrison D....
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Symposium: Finding humanity in advanced dementia, April 27
Rebecca L. BarNard A Polaroid self-portrait hand-reworked by Rebecca L. Barnard, an artist, eerily foreshadows her oncoming illness, diagnosed 14 years later. The Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology...
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Incoming provost Thorp named chair of new National Research Council committee
Holden Thorp, PhD, who will become WUSTL’s provost in July, has been named chair of a new National Research Council committee tasked with establishing and promoting a culture of safety in academic...
View ArticleNext generation science standards released
The next generation science standards have been released and Washington University in St. Louis is playing significant roles. Michael Wysession, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Earth...
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Obituary: Marilyn Krukowski, professor emerita of biology, 80
KrukowskiMarilyn Krukowski, PhD, professor emerita of biology in Arts & Sciences, died Sunday, April 7, 2013, in St. Louis from complications of multiple sclerosis. She was 80. She joined the...
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Jacoby wins Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to experimental...
The Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP) has awarded its 2013 Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award to Larry L. Jacoby, PhD, an internationally recognized scholar of human memory and a...
View ArticleAlvarez-Cohen to deliver Ninth Annual Ryckman Lecture
Lisa Alvarez-Cohen, PhD, a professor of environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, will give the Ninth Annual Ryckman Lecture at 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 19. Alvarez-Cohen, the...
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Steinberg wins 2013 Sowden Prize
SteinbergLindsey Steinberg has been selected to receive the 2013 Sowden Prize, given each year by the Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences. The prize is named in honor of the late John C....
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Grains of sand from ancient supernova found in meteorites
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ O. Krause (Steward Observatory)In 2007 NASA's Spitzer space telescope found the infrared signature of silica (sand) in the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. The light from this...
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Children’s Discovery Institute Awards $2.7 million in pediatric research grants
Understanding and solving the mysteries of tuberculosis and malnutrition, seeking answers that will help develop and improve outcomes for childhood cancers — these are some of the important new...
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2013 Spector Prize goes to Kelly, Stevens
Each year, the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis awards a prize to a graduating senior in memory of Marion Smith Spector, a 1938 WUSTL graduate who...
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Engineering professor working to help bridges survive natural disaster
Structural control systems have the potential to help our civil infrastructure, such as bridges, roads and buildings, survive natural disasters like earthquakes or storms. However, traditional control...
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