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Yearlong STEM teacher education program kicks off second round at WUSTL
Courtesy photoMatthew McCallum (foreground), a kindergarten teacher in the East St. Louis School District, examines a pig heart at the Saint Louis University Surgical Education Center during one of the...
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Email privacy a hallmark of a free society
As encrypted email services like Lavabit shut their doors, the importance of email privacy becomes even more clear writes Neil Richards, JD, privacy law expert and professor of law at Washington...
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Welcome, Class of 2017!
Joe AngelesUpperclass student volunteers (pictured here, at a pep rally Thursday, Aug. 22) help newcomers to Washington University in St. Louis move in and get settled. About 1,600 freshmen moved onto...
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Q&A: Heather Corcoran on health, wellness and interaction design
There is programming capacity, and then there are the ways people process information. As anyone still convalescing from a software update might tell you, these are not necessarily the same...
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Program links researchers, community to improve public health
Jim GoodwinGraduates of the Community Research Fellows Training program celebrate their efforts Aug. 8 during a ceremony at the Eric P. Newman Education Center on the Washington University Medical...
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Whispers Café now serves frozen yogurt
The newly renovated Whispers Café in Olin Library at Washington University in St. Louis now serves frozen yogurt.This week, the popular coffeehouse debuted cones of Edy's chocolate and vanilla frozen...
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Study on health and well-being of African Americans in St. Louis releases...
The first of five policy briefs — the hallmark of an ongoing, multi-disciplinary study titled “For the Sake of All: A Report on the Health and Well-Being of African Americans in St. Louis" — has been...
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Three medical faculty named Wolff professors
Robert BostonFrom the left, Daniel C. Brennan, MD, Chyi-Song Hsieh, MD, PhD, and Daniel S. Ory, MD, have a laugh while getting their photo taken. The three have been named the Alan A. and Edith L....
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Fall Assembly Series offers intelligent voices on issues of the day
Notes from No Man's Land author Eula Biss visits campus on Sept. 9 to discuss her book, the First Year Reading Program selection. Biss kicks off the fall Assembly Series program schedule.Human health,...
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First day is a blast for first-year students
"Thank you for everything" — Freshman David Aycke, of St. Louis (above) sent this message to his parents before classes on the first day of school Tuesday, Aug. 27. The First Year Center snapped photos...
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Poet Carl Phillips to read Sept. 5
Carl Phillips. Photo by Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotosUnafraid is what we were, I think, and then afraid, though it mostly seemed otherwise. I opened my eyes,I saw, I closed, I shut them.-- From...
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Reich named Wells Fargo Advisors Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship by...
Rob Reich, PhD, associate professor of political science at Stanford University, has been named the 2013-14 Wells Fargo Advisors Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship by the Skandalaris Center for...
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Obituary: Victoria "Vicky" Holtschlag, laboratory manager, 58
Holtschlag Victoria "Vicky" Holtschlag, a laboratory manager in Washington University School of Medicine's Department of Pathology and Immunology and at Siteman Cancer Center, died Sunday, June 30,...
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Solicitor General Verrilli to Deliver Tyrrell Williams Lecture Sept. 9
Donald B. Verrilli Jr., the 46th solicitor general of the United States, will deliver the 2013–14 Tyrrell Williams Lecture at 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9, in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom, Anheuser-Busch...
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IT monitoring effective in deterring restaurant fraud
For many firms, losing significant revenue and profit to employee theft has been a cost of doing business.Pierce But a new study from Washington University in St. Louis finds that information...
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Aging really is 'in your head'
Imai laboratoryNew research has identified the mechanism by which the sirtuin protein Sirt1, shown in green, operates in the brain to delay aging and increase longevity.Among scientists, the role of...
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Alcohol abuse, eating disorders share genetic link
E. Holland DurandoWashington University researchers have found that some of the same genes likely are involved in alcohol dependence and eating disorders.Part of the risk for alcohol dependence is...
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Washington University media specialist and LouFest founder Brian Cohen brings...
Local Natives play Sept. 8 at LouFest. Washington University in St. Louis media specialist Brian Cohen teaches WUSTL education students how to use new educational technologies in their classrooms....
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Obituary: Bernard Becker, former head of ophthalmology, 93
BeckerBernard Becker, MD, professor emeritus of ophthalmology and visual sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died at his home Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, after a long...
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New Climate Change Initiative to be led by Peter Raven
Washington University in St. Louis is launching a Climate Change Initiative (WUCCI) aimed at expanding scientific research, education and public understanding of global climate change.Raven A signature...
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