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Pope’s resignation due to ill health unprecedented, but not cause for...
While it is not unprecedented for a pope to resign from his position, it is unprecedented for a pope to resign for health reasons — as Pope Benedict XVI plans to do at the end of the month — says a...
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MySci Resource Center opens Feb. 18 (VIDEO)
Sid HastingsThe new Institute for School Partnership MySci Resource Center will serve as the nerve center of WUSTL’s signature effort to improve teaching and learning within the K-12 education...
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WUSTL linguist partners with Chinese colleagues to find best ways to teach...
joe angelesYanming “Nancy” Gao, right, vice dean of the School of Overseas Education at Northeast Normal University in China, returned to China last month after spending the past year at Washington...
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Tales from the Field: Maintaining seismic stations at the South Pole
Aubreya AdamsDecember 16, 2012. Me (Aubreya) in the ice tunnels below Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica. The tunnels are COLD! Like caves in the rest of the world, they maintain the average...
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Pianist/composer Amina Figarova Feb. 21
Amina Figarova will perform for WUSTL’s Jazz at Holmes Series Feb. 21. Photo by Zak Shelby. In 2011, acclaimed pianist and composer Amina Figarova and her husband, the flutist Bart Platteau, left...
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Deja vu all over again? Cultural understanding vs. horrors of eugenics
Arthur Estabrook Papers, University at Albany, SUNYPrison mug shot of Edgar (V428) and corresponding entry in The Jukes in 1915, by A.H. Estabrook (photo laid in copy of R. Dugdale's The Jukes). Why is...
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Brantmeier receives Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award
BrantmeierCindy Brantmeier, PhD, associate professor of Spanish and applied linguistics in Arts & Sciences, was recently honored as Washington University’s recipient of the 2012 Emerson Excellence...
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Poet Kathleen Graber Feb. 21
Great literature speaks to us across the years and miles. In The Eternal City (2010), her second collection, poet Kathleen Graber speaks back, offering reflective yet surprisingly conversational...
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WUSTL Wind Ensemble Feb. 24
If the answer to a poem is another poem, the answer to music, clearly, is more music.French composer Charles Gounod (1818-93) once described The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach...
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Face and Figure in European Art, 1928-1945
John Klein, associate professor of art history and archaeology, discusses Face and Figure in European Art, 1928-1945, which he curated for the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Photo by Whitney...
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WUSTL leaders urge action on sequester threat
Wrighton Echoing recent concerns regarding the “fiscal cliff,” Washington University in St. Louis administrators are urging Congress and the White House to reach a compromise to avoid wide-ranging,...
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Graduate students hone communications skills at research symposium
Kevin LowderBrittni D. Jones (left), a PhD student in Washington University’s Department of Education in Arts & Sciences, explains her research to Ganesh M. Babulal, a PhD student in the Graduate...
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Jane Comfort and Company March 1-2
Jane Comfort and Company in Beauty. Photo by Arthur Elgort. Hires version available upon request. It’s hard to wave when your elbow can’t bend.In Beauty, choreographer Jane Comfort—hailed as a...
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Washington People: Mike Hayes
http://youtu.be/W42_jKHl1GsMost institutions of higher learning in the U.S. will say they are student-oriented, but very few allow that ideal to really come to life like Washington University does,...
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Global NeuroDay is March 2
The NIH Human Connectome ProjectPartial view of the wiring in the brain with neurons color-coded according to the direction they run. There could hardly be a more auspicious time for NeuroDay, part of...
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Behavioral economist Dan Ariely explains why some of us can't handle the...
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, PhD, is intrigued by the fact that humans believe they act rationally when his research indicates otherwise. In fact, not only do we humans act irrationally, we also...
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Walking in the footsteps of 19th and 20th century naturalists, scientists...
Public domain image (created by the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility)Pollen grains from a variety of common plants. Both plants and insects depend on insect pollination but so do people. Without...
View ArticleWatching molecules grow into microtubes
Sometimes the best discoveries come by accident. A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, headed by Srikanth Singamaneni, PhD, assistant professor of mechanical engineering &...
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Bang’s translation of Dante’s Inferno makes two notable lists
The Academy of American Poets has selected Mary Jo Bang’s translation of Dante’s Inferno as one of the Notable Books of 2012. Bang is a professor of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington...
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Obituary: Marvin J. Cummins, longtime faculty member, 77
WUSTL Photo/Richard N. LevineWUSTL professor emeritus Marvin J. Cummins, who passed away March 1, 2013, at the age of 77, is shown here in a photo from 1976. Marvin Jay Cummins, PhD, a longtime member...
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