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Siteman Cancer Center to open south St. Louis County location Jan. 7
Siteman Cancer Center-South County, at Interstate 55 and Butler Hill Road, opens Jan. 7.The Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine will begin...
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Super-TIGER going for a record!!!
The Super-TIGER team informed us this morning that Super-TIGER, the WUSTL-led cosmic ray experiment, has been given the green light for a third circuit around Antarctica. "If the balloon stays up for...
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Who pays? The wage-insurance trade-off and corporate religious freedom claims
Corporations’ religious freedom claims against the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage mandate miss a “basic fact of health economics: health insurance, like wages, is compensation that...
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Cheating — and getting away with it
Alexander WildA slice through a culture plates shows slugs (clumps) of the social amoebae D. discoideum (at left) on their way to becoming fruiting bodies (right). The photograph was shot in the lab of...
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“A View From the Federal Circuit: A Conversation With Chief Judge Randall R....
The Hon. Randall R. Rader, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, will offer his perspectives on the court Friday, Jan. 18, at Washington University in St. Louis.His...
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Apply to become a Clinton Global Initiative University volunteer
Beginning Jan. 16, students can apply to be a volunteer during the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), to be held at Washington University in St. Louis April 5-7, 2013. CGI U will draw 1,200...
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Embedding with startups to study entrepreneurship
Washington University’s business, engineering and law schools are collaborating on a new course in 2013 that will embed students in the center of the thriving entrepreneur community in downtown St....
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WUSTL’s Clark provides testimony on reforming D.C. government ethics standards
Kathleen Clark, JD, government ethics expert and John S. Lehmann Research Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, recently provided testimony to the District of Columbia’s Board of...
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First Amendment weakens gun rights advocates’ insurrection argument
Many gun rights advocates have asserted that the Second Amendment – which protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms – serves a collective interest in deterring and, if necessary, violently...
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Global plant diversity still hinges on local battles against invasives, study...
Jessica PowellKristin Powell measuring out a study plot of invasive flax lilies in Highlands Hammock State Park in Florida. Created in 1935 Highlands Hammock is one of the first state parks to be...
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Time to mandate flu vaccines for healthcare workers, says health law expert
The widespread flu reports are a harsh reminder of the importance of influenza vaccines. This is particularly true for healthcare workers, says Elizabeth Sepper, JD, health law expert and professor of...
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Super-TIGER shatters scientific balloon record in Antarctica
We’re number 1. That’s John E. Ward, Ryan Murphy, Thomas Hams and Sean Fitzsimmons, part of the skeletal team still in Antarctica as the Southern Hemisphere winter approaches. Before he left for...
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Genes provide clues to gender disparity in human hearts
Healthy men and women show little difference in their hearts, except for small electrocardiographic disparities. But new genetic differences found by Washington University in St. Louis researchers in...
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Dissecting the Great Recession
The United States is slowly climbing out of one of the worst economic recessions in its history. As the economy slowly begins to turn a corner, Steven M. Fazzari, PhD, professor of economics in Arts...
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Altering eye cells may one day restore vision
Audio availableJoseph Corbo, MD, PhD The light-sensing cells of the eye are the top purple and pink layers in these images. The cells on the left have been reprogrammed to make them less vulnerable to...
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Hydrogeologist questions reservoir releases and blasting rock to deepen the...
The Mississippi at St. Louis as mapped by then-lieutenant R.E. Lee of the Corps of Engineers in 1837. The modern Mississippi river channel (blue) overlaid on R.E. Lee's map. Bloody Island no longer...
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Funds available for CGI U-related programming
In anticipation of the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) at WUSTL April 5-7, the Gephardt Institute for Public Service is offering funds for students, faculty and staff interested in...
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Archaic Native Americans built massive Louisiana mound in less than 90 days,...
Nominated early this year for recognition on the UNESCO World Heritage List, which includes such famous cultural sites as the Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu and Stonehenge, the earthen works at Poverty Point,...
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Twitter, Khan Academy founders join CGI U lineup
Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter, and Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, will join President Bill Clinton at the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) at Washington University in St....
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Washington University’s $80M Loop development moves forward
This rendering shows a view of two new buildings from the intersection of Delmar and Eastgate. Images provided by William Rawn Associates. Washington University in St. Louis this week obtained final...
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