Author: Gerry Everding

We’ve heard it before: “Imagine yourself passing the exam or scoring a goal and it will happen.” We may roll our eyes and think that’s easier said than done, but a new study from psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis suggests imagination may be more effective than we think in helping us reach our goals. “The imagination has the extraordinary capacity to shape reality,” say co-authors of a study suggesting that merely imagining something close to our hands will cause us to pay more attention to it.

“Financing University Education” is the focus of a free public conference to be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, in the Bryan Cave Moot Court Room of Anheuser Busch Hall.

As America considers major healthcare reforms, it may have lessons to learn from Seguro Popular, Mexico’s ambitious plan to improve healthcare for its estimated 50 million uninsured citizens, suggests Ryan Moore, co-author of a new evaluation of the program. Conducted through a partnership of Mexican health officials and researchers from leading American universities, the study offers a model U.S. policymakers might use to scientifically explore solutions to America’s own looming healthcare crisis.

“Financing University Education” is the focus of a free public conference to be held 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. April 14 in the Bryan Cave Moot Court Room. Anheuser-Busch Hall, Danforth Campus, Washington University in St. Louis.

Senior Tyler Nading scored a game-high 20 points as the Washington University in St. Louis men’s basketball team repeated as NCAA Division III National Champions with a 61-52 victory over No. 6 Richard Stockton College on Saturday at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Va. The WUSTL women’s basketball team staged a frenzied second-half comeback attempt that fell just short as the Bears lost, 60-53, to No. 3 George Fox University in a national championship game played Saturday at the DeVos Fieldhouse in Holland, Mich.

Washington University in St. Louis is the lone school with both men’s and women’s basketball teams remaining in the 2009 NCAA Division III tournament.

NorthCommunity-based conservation in Madagascar, property rights for the poor in Argentina and trade-offs between violence and power in societies throughout human history are among topics to be explored in a free public workshop on the social science of international development from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 24 in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

Paul Harvey, whose news reports and human interest stories captivated American listeners for decades, died Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Mayo Clinic Hospital near his winter home in Arizona. He was 90. Harvey, and his wife, Lynne “Angel” Cooper Harvey, who died May 3, 2008, were long-time, generous supporters of Washington University.

Smith As the White House pleads for bipartisan support of a massive federal stimulus plan, congressional Democrats and Republicans are maneuvering, strategizing, nervously seeking partners in an awkward legislative first dance that may determine whether Barack Obama makes good on his promise to bring change to Washington, suggests Steven S. Smith, a congressional expert at Washington University in St. Louis.

Getting the campus and surrounding community to reflect on the University’s role in society is the goal of the Master of Liberal Arts program’s “Democracy and the University” seminar series, which will be held at 11 a.m. each Saturday in February in McDonnell Hall.