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Jacoby elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Larry L. Jacoby, an internationally recognized scholar of human memory and professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been elected...
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Doctors recommend prescribing fewer opioids after surgery
http://mpaweb1.wustl.edu/~medschool/radio/files/EKopioids.mp3 Bolstering new federal guidelines that advise primary care doctors to carefully weigh the prescribing of opioid painkillers, two experts at...
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Podcast: Mosaic Whispers members break down award-winning ‘Elastic Heart’
Mosaic Whispers music director Katie Greenberg performs “Elastic Heart” at the 25th anniversary show April 9 in Graham Chapel. (Photo: Courtesy of Andy Koh)...
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Five to receive honorary degrees at Washington University’s 155th Commencement
Washington University in St. Louis will award five honorary degrees during its 155th Commencement May 20. During the ceremony, which will begin at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle on the Danforth...
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Undergraduate mathematicians test their mettle
One of the most impressive things Washington University in St. Louis students do each academic year is sit for the Putnam Competition, an annual competition that tests the mathematical ingenuity of...
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Nanoparticles present sustainable way to grow food crops
Scientists are working diligently to prepare for the expected increase in global population — and therefore an increased need for food production— in the coming decades. A team of engineers at...
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Obituary: Cathy Rodgers, former fashion-design faculty, 87
Cathy Rodgers (right), who taught fashion design for 47 years, works with a student in the Sam Fox School’s Bixby Hall in 2004. Cathy Rodgers, a former member of the fashion design faculty at...
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Breast milk linked to significant early brain growth in preemies
http://mpaweb1.wustl.edu/~medschool/embargo/Breast%20milk-brain%20vol%20.mp3 Feeding premature babies mostly breast milk during the first month of life appears to spur more robust brain growth,...
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Researching the emotional toll of an earthquake
The dramatic 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal one year ago left behind a landscape littered with crumbled homes, buildings and roads. While infrastructure can be rebuilt, the disaster may have a...
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American Medical Association to collaborate with IDEA Labs
IDEA Labs, a student-run bioengineering and design incubator started at Washington University in St. Louis, will expand its national reach through a partnership with the American Medical Association...
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Green rehab: Making century-old brick buildings sustainable
A six-percent upfront investment reduced energy consumption by 19 percent — and carbon emissions by 34 percent — in a pair of 100-year-old brick buildings. Add solar panels, and those numbers drop to...
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High-fructose diet during pregnancy may harm placenta, restrict fetal growth
A new study in mice and women by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that a high-fructose diet during pregnancy may harm the placenta and restrict fetal growth....
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Popular heartburn drugs may cause serious kidney damage
Prolonged use of drugs to treat heartburn, ulcers and acid reflux may lead to serious kidney damage, including kidney failure, according to a study by researchers at Washington University School of...
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Newborn screening test developed for rare, deadly neurological disorder
Dried blood spots are used to screen newborns for a number of rare inherited conditions. Scientists have developed a new dried blood spot screening test for Niemann-Pick type C, a rare...
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Eliot Society members gather for annual gala
Larry J. Shapiro, MD (left), former dean of the School of Medicine, was honored with the Search Award at the 49th annual William Greenleaf Eliot Society dinner April 21. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton...
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Trustees meet, elect new board members and officers
At its spring meeting May 6, the Board of Trustees at Washington University in St. Louis elected six new members and re-elected eight members and its current officers, among other action, according to...
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Making everyday decisions
Choosing what shirt to buy, what to order for lunch or whether to go with the hearty red wine or the lighter white all involve assigning values to the options. A small brain structure plays a central...
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First Year Reading Program selects ‘Between the World and Me’
“Between the World and Me,” by acclaimed writer and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, is the 2016 First Year Reading Program selection. Written as a letter to Coates’ teenage son, the book is both a tender...
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A new route to chaos
Researchers in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a novel route to encode chaos on light in an optomechanical microresonator system....
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Murphy, Virgin elected to National Academy of Sciences
Two scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are among the 84 members and 21 foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year. Election to the academy...
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