Author: Gerry Everding

Picture a menacing drill sergeant, a gory slaughterhouse, a devastating scene of a natural disaster. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found that viewing such emotion-laden images immediately after taking a test actually enhances people’s retention of the tested material.

Nature NewsTime up for relativity table-top test?6/9/2011Researchers at University of California, Berkeley, have clashed with a team lead by Luc Blanchet, a theorist at the Astrophysical Institute of Paris, over whether the time-warping ways of Einstein’s theory of general relativity be measured by the quantum ‘ticking’ of an atom? Clifford Will, who studies general relativity […]

View 2011 Commencement-related news releases, background on honorary degree recipients and a gallery of feature stories on some of our most interesting graduates. Commencement day coverage includes a celebratory slide show and a story on the speech by Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel.

CNN / Cable News Network Doug Wiens joins John King’s live coverage of tsunami aftermath 3 /11/2011 Doug Wiens, chairman of Washington University department of earth and planetary sciences, joins CNN live from St. Louis to help explain the science of tsunamis. Wiens discussed the earthquake and its context within the “ring of fire,” a […]

Practice may not always make perfect, but a novel study of Midwestern middle school science students suggests it just might. New research from Washington University in St. Louis shows that students who received three quizzes on content questions before a unit test performed at the “A” level on those test questions, compared with a “C” level on questions that were not quizzed beforehand but still on the test.

Inside Higher Ed Yanked from the margins 02/18/2011 A new blue-ribbon commission has been assembled in a bid to put the humanities and social sciences on an equal footing on the public agenda with science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Gerald Early, professor of modern letters at Washington University in St. Louis, is among 41 cultural […]

Photonics Online Guide star lets scientists see deep into human tissue 02/7/2011 Ultrasound guide star and time-reversal mirror can focus light deep under the skin, a game-changing improvement in biomedical imaging technology. Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has invented a guide star […]

Commercials during the Super Bowl may be some of the most watched ads on broadcast T.V., but Olin marketing professors say social media has changed the game. Advertisers need to engage the audience before, during and after the game with strategies that include everything from smartphones to Twitter.

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 01/29/2011 Pain is as much a part of pro football as football helmets. That’s according to a groundbreaking study commissioned by ESPN’s “Outside The Lines” and the National Institute on Drug Abuse and conducted by at the Washington University School of Medicine. Researchers surveyed 644 former NFL players about their health, pain levels, […]

In a marriage of two disciplines that don’t often overlap — politics and medicine — a study by Matthew Gabel, PhD, professor of political science in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, finds that group consensus is an effective method for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease.