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The University placed two students in the top 100 in the national Putnam competition and had winners in the Missouri Collegiate Mathematics Competition.

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STARS program

A team of geologists makes a revealing discovery: a well-preserved fossil of a crab within inches of a tail vertebra from a massive plant-eating dinosaur.

Visiting professor Chuen-Jinn Tsai, Ph.D., and Da-Ren Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, discuss the design of their coaxial cyclone.Washington University in St. Louis engineers have developed a device that can make the semiconductor manufacturing industry cleaner

This NASA image shows the smoke from Iraq’s oil fires set early in the confrontation.An air pollution expert at Washington University in St. Louis says the air pollution created by the Iraqi war is regional and should remain that way unless something catastrophic happens such as the torching of the Kuwaiti oil wells in the 1991 Gulf War.

The St. Louis arch has been thought to be a potential target for terrorists.Researchers at Washington University’s Center for Security Technologies are planning a surveillance system that recognizes aberrant traffic flow and then, using automatic target recognition, identifies and analyzes the danger.

The School of Engineering & Applied Science will honor six distinguished individuals April 9 at its Alumni Achievement Awards Dinner.

Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman has announced his appointment to the Research, Education and Economics Task Force.