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Oxygen levels link to ancient explosion of life
Oxygen has provided a breath of fresh air to the study of the Earth’s evolution some 400-plus million years ago. A team of researchers, including a faculty member and postdoctoral fellow from...
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Seven faculty are 2017 AAAS Fellows
Seven faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis are among 396 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific...
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Ramani installed as Wittcoff Distinguished University Professor
Vijay Ramani has been named the inaugural Roma B. and Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished University Professor of Environment and Energy at Washington University in St. Louis. He was installed Sept. 13...
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Washington University Dance Theatre Dec. 1-3
“I like to think about the difference between a technique and an approach. An arabesque is an arabesque; it’s not anything else. But an approach — to gravity, to movement, to the body — can lead a...
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New pathways, better biofuels
The mass manufacture of biofuels could hold the key to greener, more environmentally sound energy, transportation and product options. Scientists have previously engineered metabolic pathways of...
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Danforth, Nixon to discuss civil discourse Nov. 30
John C. “Jack” Danforth, former U.S. senator from Missouri, and Jay Nixon, former governor of Missouri, will participate in a fireside chat from noon-1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, in Anheuser-Busch Hall’s...
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Losing a sister, saving a life
Washington University in St. Louis graduating senior and SODA founder Sara Miller welcomed the recipient of her sister’s liver to campus to discuss the importance of organ donation. (Video by Tom...
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Work continues on process to select the next chancellor
The process to select the next chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis is in full swing, with two new members added to the search committee, listening sessions scheduled on the Medical Campus...
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Helping minority students feel welcome
Nearly 30 percent of U.S. college students drop out in their first year, on average. One segment of a campus population shown to experience a particularly difficult time fitting in: underrepresented...
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Reaching for neutron stars
For more than a decade, a cross-disciplinary team of chemists and physicists in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis has been chasing the atomic nucleus. With progressive studies,...
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Deneb STARS celebrates cultural wealth of low-income students
Oscar Gomez, a first-year student at Washington University in St. Louis, talks with sophomore Ruth Durrell, a Deneb STARS peer mentor, during their weekly lunch at the Danforth University Center’s...
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Trustees discuss higher education trends, chancellor search; elect new board...
Wrighton The Dec. 1 meeting of the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees focused on trends in higher education and the search for a new chancellor, according to Chancellor Mark S....
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Brown School begins post-master’s certificate programs
The Brown School is launching a series of post-master’s certificate programs, beginning this spring with a course on creating effective supports for parents and families. “We are thrilled to bring this...
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Obesity prevented in mice fed high-fat diet
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/episodes/Long-Hedgehog%20.mp3 Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a way to prevent fat cells from growing larger, a...
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Uncovering the design principles of cellular compartments
Membraneless organelles are tiny droplets inside a single cell, thought to regulate everything from division, to movement, to its very destruction. A better understanding of these mysterious structures...
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Medicare shift to quality over quantity presents challenges
A new study hints that even large physician practices may have trouble moving to a payment system that rewards quality of health care over quantity of services delivered. The analysis included data...
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Alzheimer’s damage in mice reduced with compound that targets APOE gene
People who carry the APOE4 genetic variant face a substantial risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a...
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Clot-busting drugs not recommended for most patients with blood clots
Not all patients with blood clots in their legs – a condition known as deep vein thrombosis – need to receive powerful but risky clot-busting drugs, according to results of a large-scale, multicenter...
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Enacting Caravaggio
Matthew is a profane man, a tax collector. Then Jesus says, “Follow me.” And Matthew does. In “The Calling of St. Matthew” (1599-1600), Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio captures the biblical tale...
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Brain networks that help babies learn to walk ID’d
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/episodes/NM%20Cer%20Cort.mp3 Scientists have identified brain networks involved in a baby’s learning to walk — a discovery that eventually may help predict whether...
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