The Record

Class Acts series showcasing graduating students launches

Meet the Class of 2016 in Class Acts, a celebration of outstanding student leaders, researchers and innovators. This week, Class Acts introduces Ryan Mikkelsen (pictured), recently named a Yenching Scholar, and Ron Nwumeh, a top biology student.

Achilefu named inaugural Ter-Pogossian Professor of Radiology

Samuel Achilefu (right), whose research includes developing technologies that help surgeons see cancer cells and kill cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue, has been named the inaugural Michel M. Ter-Pogossian Professor of Radiology at the School of Medicine.

Migratory birds’ parallel universe

Our experience of the world differs radically from one person to another. Most of us walk blindly through the campus quadrangles seeing only one another. But a few of us see the other creatures, such as songbirds that rest for a day or two before resuming their migrations.

WashU Expert: Republicans may think twice about SCOTUS pick

President Barack Obama’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Judge Merrick Garland, could make Senate Republicans think twice about stonewalling the nomination process as the election approaches, said constitutional law expert Greg Magarian.