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East end garage changes planned for spring semester
Parking & Transportation Services at Washington University in St. Louis has been reviewing usage and functionality of the east end garage to ensure it is delivering the best experience to both...
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Levy named 2019-20 Freund Teaching Fellow
Dana Levy is the 2019-20 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/Washington University) The American landscape buckles and cracks. Rivers and forests, flora and fauna,...
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Local government through a social work lens
Brown School student Diamond Munerlyn believes social workers can serve as a bridge between municipal leaders and the residents they serve. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University) Social workers...
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Graduating senior to stay in St. Louis, expand nonprofit
The advice was simple and blunt: “Stop stressing out and focus on what you love.” Washington University in St. Louis senior Harsh Moolani was skeptical. As a pre-med student, Moolani believed he...
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Supersize me: Physicists awarded $3.3M for XL-Calibur telescope
In 2018, X-Calibur measured the polarization of the high-energy X-ray emissions from a neutron star. NASA has committed more than $3 million to a new instrument dubbed XL-Calibur that builds on...
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Depression, anxiety may hinder healing in young patients with hip pain
New research suggests that physicians evaluating young patients with hip pain should consider more than such patients’ physical health. They also should consider screening those patients for clinical...
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Local student surprised with WashU Pledge scholarship
(Video: Tom Malkowicz/Washington University) On Dec. 12, 707 high school seniors received electronic notification they been admitted early decision to Washington University in St. Louis. But Zussy...
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Division of Data and Computational Sciences marries AI, social science
Every day, social service professionals tackle complex problems across varying domains, working to determine which interventions are likely to be effective, fair and within an agency’s capabilities....
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WashU physicists launch cosmic ray telescope from Antarctica
The Super Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder (SuperTIGER) instrument is used to study the origin of cosmic rays. (Photo courtesy SuperTIGER team) A team of Washington University in St. Louis...
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Survey: Electorate wants candidates, parties to act on climate change
A majority of a sampling of Republicans and Democrats who intend to vote in Presidential primary elections believe there is evidence that the Earth is warming, recognize that humans caused much of the...
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Asthma severity linked to microbiome of upper airway
A new study led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests there is a link between bacteria that live in the upper airway and the severity of asthma symptoms among children with...
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And then there was light
Light provides the energy that plants and other photosynthetic organisms need to grow, which ultimately yields the metabolites that feed all other organisms on the planet. Plants also rely on light...
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New year’s resolution: Wait until spring
Tim Bono offers sound advice about where people go wrong when setting New Year’s resolutions. Wait a few months, said Bono, assistant dean for assessment in Student Affairs and lecturer in...
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Grain traits traced to ‘dark matter’ of rice genome
Domesticated rice has fatter seed grains with higher starch content than its wild rice relatives — the result of many generations of preferential seed sorting and sowing. But even though rice was the...
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Scientists find way to supercharge protein production
Medicines such as insulin for diabetes and clotting factors for hemophilia are hard to synthesize in the lab. Such drugs are based on therapeutic proteins, so scientists have engineered bacteria into...
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‘Lost crops’ could have fed as many as maize
Make some room in the garden, you storied three sisters: the winter squash, climbing beans and the vegetable we know as corn. Grown together, newly examined “lost crops” could have produced enough...
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Chimpanzees more likely to share tools, teach skills when task is complex
Teach a chimpanzee to fish for insects to eat, and you feed her for a lifetime. Teach her a better way to use tools in gathering prey, and you may change the course of evolution. For most wild...
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2019 in review: a year of change, a year of discovery
In celebration of another year of change and discovery at Washington University in St. Louis, the Source shares some of its most-read stories of the year. Celebrating our changing campus: New era in...
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Why isn’t there a vaccine for staph?
Staph bacteria, the leading cause of potentially dangerous skin infections, are most feared for the drug-resistant strains that have become a serious threat to public health. Attempts to develop a...
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Proton therapy as effective as standard radiation with fewer side effects
Cancer patients who receive high-tech proton therapy experience similar cure rates and fewer serious side effects compared with those who undergo traditional X-ray radiation therapy, according to a...
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