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Edison announces 2012-13 Ovations Series
Celebrated pianist Christopher O’Riley (right) and cellist Matt Haimovitz will bring Shuffle.Play.Listen., their genre-hopping collaborative concert, to St. Louis Oct. 12 as part of the Edison...
View ArticleGraduate School of Arts & Sciences recognizes outstanding teaching...
Teaching assistants are highly valued members of the Washington University instructional team, whether assisting faculty in the preparation, instruction and grading of an undergraduate course; tutoring...
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Schaal wins AIBS Distinguished Scientist Award
The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) honored Barbara Schaal, PhD, the Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington...
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Two faculty named fellows of American Academy of Microbiology
The American Academy of Microbiology has named two Washington University in St. Louis faculty members as fellows: Robert Blankenship, PhD, and John Heuser, MD. Heuser Heuser devised a way to freeze...
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City youth help St. Louis Zoo, WUSTL scientists study box turtles
Wikipedia Commons Missouri has two species of box turtle, the Ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata ornata) shown here and the Three-toed box turtle shown below. Box turtles get their name from a...
View ArticleAmazingly mathematical music
During the day, David L. Wright, PhD, is chairman of the Department of Mathematics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis; at night, he is assistant director of Ambassadors of...
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Bradley Stoner leads society of specialists who treat STDs
Bradley P. Stoner, MD, PhD, has been elected president of the AmericanSexually Transmitted Diseases Association, the national society that represents researchers and clinicians specializing in the...
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Key part of plants’ rapid response system revealed
Images of several related proteins made at synchrotrons in the U.S. and France have allowed scientists at Washington University in St. Louis and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Grenoble,...
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Animal reservoir mystery solved
Collage of Wikimedia Commons images Whodunnit? The scientists had found squirrel-like DNA in ticks also carrying pathogen DNA but couldn’t tell which animal the tick had bitten. Was it (clockwise from...
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Foundational concept of ecology tested by experiment
Travis Mohrman/Tyson Research Center Male blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis), is one of about 10 dragonfly species commonly seen buzzing the artificial pond systems at the Tyson Research Center,...
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Four Arts & Sciences staff members recognized for outstanding work
Mary ButkusDean Gary S. Wihl, PhD (center), talks in his office with Arts & Sciences staff members (from left) Carol Kohring, Sarah O’Donnell, Sean McWilliams and Merlyn Rodrigues after presenting...
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Cleon Yohe Jr., emeritus professor of mathematics, 70
Yohe Cleon R. Yohe Jr., PhD, emeritus professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Tuesday, June 26, of cancer. He was 70. Yohe earned a doctorate in...
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Roediger receives lifetime achievement award
Henry L. “Roddy” Roediger III, PhD, an internationally recognized scholar of human memory and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University...
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Kastor, Rosenfeld named ACLS fellows
Two Washington University in St. Louis professors — Peter J. Kastor, PhD, and Jessica Rosenfeld, PhD — have been named 2012 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellows. Kastor, professor of...
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Giant ice avalanches on Iapetus provide clue to extreme slippage elsewhere in...
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute When the rimwall of Iapetus's Malun crater broke off and plunged more than five miles to the crater floor, it surged an astonishing 22 miles out from the base of the...
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Brain imaging can predict how intelligent you are, study finds
WUSTL Image / Michael Cole New research suggests as much as 10 percent of individual variances in human intelligence can be predicted based on the strength of neural connections between the lateral...
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Jane Eyre launches Edison Ovations Series
Annie Loui’s Counter-Balance Theater launches the 2012-13 Edison Ovations Series with Jane Eyre Sept. 7 and 8. Download hi-res version. “What do I want? A new place, in a new house, amongst new faces,...
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Vaporizing the Earth
A. Leger et al./Icarus Scientists at Washington University have simulated the atmospheres of hot Earth-like planets, such as CoRoT-7b, shown here in an artist's conception. CoRoT-7b orbits so close...
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Ray Arvidson offers updates on Mars rover missions
With all the fanfare about Mars rover Curiosity landing safely on the Red Planet on Aug. 6, it’s easy to forget that there’s already a rover on Mars — an older, smaller cousin set to accomplish a feat...
View ArticleInterdisciplinary seed grants awarded by vice chancellor for research
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) has announced the six winners of the 2012 University Research Strategic Alliance (URSA) grants. The URSA grants offer a one-year, $25,000 award to...
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