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Cutting off cervical cancer’s fuel supply stymies tumors
Cancer therapies have improved — in some cases dramatically — over the past two decades, but treatment for cervical cancer has remained largely unchanged. All patients receive radiation and...
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Wencewicz wins Sloan fellowship
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced Feb. 15 that Timothy A. Wencewicz, assistant professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been awarded a 2018 Sloan...
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Twin peeks
Haggling over fictional furniture in the 90-degree Ohio heat, more than 100 pairs of twins were integral in showing researchers, led by Washington University in St. Louis, the importance of negotiation...
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Study of smoking and genetics illuminates complexities of blood pressure
Analyzing the genetics and smoking habits of more than half a million people has shed new light on the complexities of controlling blood pressure, according to a study led by researchers at Washington...
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‘Call things like they are’
Die after me, all right? I don’t care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just … survive. Outlive me, please. — Barbara Writer, professor and drunk. Beverly Weston is a fading...
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Failure to prevent gun-related violence may violate international human rights
Washington University in St. Louis School of Law students will conduct in-depth research examining U.S. government responses to gun violence and whether they violate America’s obligations under...
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Higher income level linked to police use of force against black women
Black women with higher incomes are more likely to experience a forceful police interaction during a traffic stop, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. “We...
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Search committee named for Teaching Center executive director
Provost Holden Thorp has formed a search committee to appoint an executive director for Washington University in St. Louis’ Teaching Center. The Teaching Center serves faculty from all academic...
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Incentive reform key to racial equity in America’s cities
Tax increment financing (TIF) and other development incentives have become American cities’ primary means of encouraging local economic development. A new study by the Brown School at Washington...
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Smart tutoring: Hawthorn InvestiGirls program takes homework help to the next...
Seventh-grader Michelle Kenton is not like a lot of her classmates. At Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls, a school where many students are good readers, Kenton admits that she gets nervous reading...
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Sam Fox School announces 2018 Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Awards
Multimedia artist Ebony G. Patterson and sculptor Jill Downen have won the 2018 Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Awards. Presented by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington...
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Similarities found in cancer initiation in kidney, liver, stomach, pancreas
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/embargo/Paligenosis%20story.mp3 Recent research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis demonstrated that mature cells in the stomach sometimes...
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Global Health Week events planned
Washington University in St. Louis is dedicated to finding solutions for some of the world’s largest challenges; a set of activities and events next week will focus on the many facets of one challenge...
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The universal language of emotion
An international research team, led by Washington University in St. Louis, studied vocal expressions uttered by people in the United States, Australia, India, Kenya and Singapore, and found that people...
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What the size of a CFO signature may tell you
Does the signature size match the personality? According to Chad Ham, assistant professor of accounting at Washington University in St. Louis’ Olin Business School, a chief financial officer (CFO) with...
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$5 million aids development of artificial red blood cells
Trauma is the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 46. In the U.S., there are about 30,000 preventable deaths each year in patients with severe bleeding from trauma. In an effort to...
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Chancellor’s Concert March 2
The music sparkles like water in summer. In “Mississippi Suite” (1925), Ferde Grofé deploys swirling strings and a warm brass choral to capture the journey of the great American river, from its...
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Fail Better: Grace Egbo
Grace Egbo, who is studying computer science, shares how she “broke Facebook.” (Video: Tom Malkowicz/Washington University) Grace Egbo, a computer science student at Washington University in St....
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Program to replace key administrative systems, standardize processes moves...
Starting this summer, Washington University in St. Louis will begin a multiyear effort to replace its aging human resources, finance and student information systems with a single, integrated system....
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Simplifying samples
Imagine a physician in a rural or remote area who needs to send a patient’s blood or urine sample to a hospital hundreds of miles away for testing. To preserve the sample’s quality, it must be...
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