Month: April 2016

Dancer and Choreographer Bill T. Jones will receive the 2016 International Humanities Prize from Washington University in St. Louis. Granted biennially, the prize honors the lifetime work of a noted scholar, writer or artist who has made a significant and sustained contribution to the world of letters or the arts.

Getting older doesn’t have to be a cause for worry. Six experts from across the university offer tips about how to plan for the future as you or your family members move into the golden years.

Images from in and around the Washington University campuses.

Kengo Kuma, one of Japan’s most Influential architects and theorists, will discuss his work May 4 for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts spring Public Lecture Series.

The St. Louis Area Regional Response System (STARRS) will conduct a full-scale emergency exercise on Tuesday, April 26 in various locations throughout the St. Louis region, including Washington University’s South Campus, located at 6501 Clayton Road.

Washington University has formed a new Center for Drug Discovery, with the idea that academic institutions must step in and contribute to research and development of new therapeutics that industry has largely abandoned because of market pressures.

Most of the galactic cosmic rays reaching Earth come from nearby clusters of massive stars, according to new observations from NASA’s ACE spacecraft. The distance between the cosmic rays’ point of origin and Earth is limited by the survival of a radioactive isotope of iron, Fe-60, which has a half life of 2.6 million years. These tiny clocks indicate there was a source within spitting distance of Earth within the past few million years.

At 1:30 p.m. Monday, April 25, the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis and the Assembly Series welcomes to campus John Paul Stevens, who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court for 35 years until his retirement in 2010.

The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum can farm symbiotic bacteria for food by carrying them from generation to generation. New research shows that these bacteria can also protect the amoeba from environmental toxins.

Low-to-moderate income black students and graduates accrue on average $7,721 more student debt than their white counterparts, finds a new analysis by researchers in the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis.