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Social amoebae travel with a posse
Joan StrassmannIn 2011, Nature announced that scientists had discovered a single-celled organism that is a primitive farmer. The organism, a social amoeba called Dictyostelium discoideum, picks up...
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Speedier scans reveal new distinctions in resting and active brain
A boost in the speed of brain scans is unveiling new insights into how brain regions work with each other in cooperative groups called networks.Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in...
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Children with ear deformity may need intervention to improve school performance
National Institutes of HealthA normal ear (top left) compared with various external ear malformations that are common in children born with aural atresia, the absence of an external ear canal. This...
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Librarian Trevor Dawes leads Association of College & Research Libraries
Trevor A. Dawes, associate university librarian, recently was installed as president of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), an international organization serving academic...
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Successful dry run for the 2020 Mars Mission
WikimediaSomewhere on Mars, the Red Planet? No, it’s somewhere in the Atacama Desert, the closest approximation on our planet to a Martian landscape.A film director looking for a location where a movie...
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The government must develop collaborative enterprise leaders to solve its...
Global climate change. Counterterrorism. Food safety. Oil spills.The American public looks to the federal government to successfully respond to and solve our “wicked” problems. Complex, cross-cutting...
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A message from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton
Rightfully, there is ongoing national dialogue about how best to make higher education accessible and affordable for aspiring and qualified students, regardless of socioeconomic or demographic...
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Brain's flexible hub network helps humans adapt
Michael Cole/WUSTL Background diagram shows 264 brain regions in the human brain color coded by network affiliation. Center sphere shows networks labeled with their potential functions; lines indicate...
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Career development program in OB/GYN moves to Washington University
A research career development program in obstetrics and gynecology is moving to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis from the University of California-San Francisco. The Reproductive...
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Sophomore busts Rubik's Cube record
WUSTL sophomore Kevin Hays works to solve a Rubik's Cube in record time. Washington University in St. Louis sophomore Kevin Hays busted his own Rubik’s Cube world record Aug. 3 at the Vancouver Open in...
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Protein that delays cell division in bacteria may lead to the identification...
Levin labIn a rapidly dividing chain of bacterial cells (top), constriction rings that will pinch the cells in two appear in red. The red doughnut to the bottom right of the image is a constriction...
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Transforming vacant lots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEU5q9MALIAWatch a video of the Sunflower+ Project, led by Don Koster, senior lecturer in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.Through a special partnership...
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Incoming medical students take the plunge
robert bostonWill Ross, MD, the School of Medicine's associate dean of diversity, talks with incoming medical students (from left) Umber Dube, Mengxuan Tang and Rukayat Taiwo during a break in WUMP —...
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Semester Online registration extended until Aug. 26
This is an example of a virtual classroom, through which students in Semester Online courses will participate in discussions and activities, attend lectures and collaborate with peers while guided by...
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Remembering to remember supported by two distinct brain processes
You plan on shopping for groceries later and you tell yourself that you have to remember to take the grocery bags with you when you leave the house. Lo and behold, you reach the checkout counter and...
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Washington University School of Law collaborates with Husch Blackwell for...
Washington University School of Law and Husch Blackwell announce the launch of an intensive professional development program designed to enhance Husch Blackwell attorneys’ client relations and...
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Lab-made complexes are “sun sponges”
Angeles/WUSTLGraduate student Michelle Harris and research scientist Darek Niedzwiedzki in PARC’s Ultrafast Laser Facility. The laser setup allows them to measure energy transfer steps among pigments...
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WUSTL bucks global trend in female entrepreneurship
A recent report from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor indicates that there are significantly fewer female entrepreneurs than male entrepreneurs around the world.Sarah Haselkorn This is not the case,...
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Green Rehab project promotes a more sustainable university
http://youtu.be/qmQ_6xHWK6QIn the United States, buildings account for 36% of total energy usage and 65% of electrical consumption. For architects, engineers and property owners alike, improving energy...
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Creating plants that make their own fertilizer
James Byard/WUSTLNancy Duan (left), Michelle Liberton and Lingxia Zhao are members of a team that has taken the first proof-of-principle steps toward inserting the genes needed to fix nitrogen —...
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