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Inaugural Faculty Fellows & Emerging Scholar-Professional program set for...
Click for full-size flyer The Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI) is accepting proposals for the inaugural Faculty Fellows & Emerging Scholar-Professional (FFESP) Program for the 2016-17...
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Nerve injury appears to be root of diabetes-related vision loss
http://mpaweb1.wustl.edu/~medschool/radio/files/RR-CSretinopathy.mp3 Diabetes-related vision loss most often is blamed on blood vessel damage in and around the retina, but new research indicates that...
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Fail Better: Tim Bono
The first time Tim Bono wanted to drop out of Washington University in St. Louis, he was a month into his freshman year. “I was totally in over my head,” recalled Bono, now assistant dean for...
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A theatrical tour de force
The cast of “Love and Information.” (Photo: Jerry Naunheim Jr./Washington University) Caryl Churchill is one of England’s most influential playwrights. Works such as “Cloud Nine” (1979), “Top Girls”...
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Pow Wow 2016: ‘Our language helps define us’
The theme of this year’s Pow Wow is “Honoring Our Language to Strengthen Our Future.” Joe Masters, MSW ’13 (Biidwewiigun Mukwa, Thunder Bear), says language is an essential part of Native American...
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Study finds vast diversity among viruses that infect bacteria
Viruses that infect bacteria are among the most abundant life forms on Earth. Indeed, our oceans, soils and potentially even our bodies would be overrun with bacteria were it not for bacteria-eating...
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Community event to focus on research, responses to gun violence
One year after the launch of “Gun Violence: A Public Health Crisis,” members of the Washington University in St. Louis community will gather April 5 to focus on “Research, Reflection and Responses.”...
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New clues identified in childhood cancer syndrome
Children with the inherited cancer syndrome neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) are prone to developing brain and nerve tumors as well as myriad other medical problems, including autism, epilepsy and bone...
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Annual African Film Festival celebrates cultural, linguistic diversity
Senay Behre, a vital voice in filmmaking, will discuss his mission to change the way we understand Africa at the 11th Annual African Film Festival that begins Friday, April 1, at Washington University...
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Commencement speaker John R. Lewis: Champion of civil rights
John R. Lewis U.S. Congressman John R. Lewis, considered one of the most courageous and influential leaders in the civil rights movement, will give the 2016 Commencement address at Washington...
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From gowns and grotesques to the little black dress
Clothes always tell a story. Sometimes it’s a story of craft. Priyanka Reddy combines clean minimalist shapes with the rich detailing of kalamkari, a traditional Indian fabric-dying technique....
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Fat vs. sugar in the fight against cancer
Cancer cells are defined by their ability for uncontrolled growth, one cell quickly becoming two becoming many. “It’s a fascinating process,” said Gary Patti, associate professor of chemistry in Arts...
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From college student to college adviser
Erin Waddles (left), a member of the Washington University College Advising Corps, works with students at Vashon High School in St. Louis. (Photo: James Byard/Washington University) Vashon High School...
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A radical plan to save the delta
On Jan. 9, 2016, as record floodwaters roared down the mid-Mississippi River valley, hundreds gathered on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain to witness the opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway. Completed...
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Marking territory stifles workplace creativity
Managers often stress the importance of creativity in the workplace. Hiring innovative employees, inspiring them to try new ideas and supporting those ideas are often goals of an organization’s...
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Kranzbergs to provide key support for artistic, cultural initiatives at...
Ken and Nancy Kranzberg Citing their wish to expand arts and education opportunities, leading local arts patrons Kenneth and Nancy Kranzberg have expressed their intention to make a $2 million gift to...
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Academy of Science-St. Louis honors researchers
Four researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are being honored as outstanding scientists by the Academy of Science-St. Louis. University recipients of this year’s honors are faculty members...
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New mouse model to aid testing of Zika vaccine, therapeutics
A research team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has established a mouse model for testing of vaccines and therapeutics to battle Zika virus. The mouse model mimics aspects of...
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Relay For Life ‘connects us all’
For every Relay For Life participant, there is someone special lost too soon to cancer. For the members of Washington University in St. Louis fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE), that person is...
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Surgeons test technology with potential to expand lung transplant donor pool
Organ transplant patient Michele Coleman receives a follow-up exam a few months after surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis gave her a new set of lungs. As he conducted the...
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