Author: Ken Duenke

Washington University Orthopedics has been chosen to provide medical care for players on the new, WPS, Women’s Professional Soccer team, Saint Louis Athletica. The orthopedics group also cares for the St. Louis Blues, St. Louis Rams and other sports teams. Robert Brophy, a former soccer player and a sports medicine specialist, will serve as head team physician.

An opening ceremony for what could be the greenest building in the Midwest will take place at 4 p.m. May 29 at the Living Learning Center at the Tyson Research Center — 2,000 acres of woods, prairie, ponds and savannas, located approximately 20 miles southwest of the Danforth Campus where dozens of WUSTL faculty do predominantly environmental research.

Any child confronting an outraged parent demanding to know “What were you thinking?” now has a new response: “Scientists have discovered that my brain is organized differently than yours.” But all is not well for errant kids. The same new study also provides parents with a rejoinder: While the overarching organization scheme differs, one of the most important core principals of adult brain organization is present in the brains of children as young as 7.

Katie Ammann has packed two majors, a minor, two life-changing international experiences, conversations with the homeless and a truckload of musical performances into her four years at Washington University. And her most important lesson: Be open to the possibilities, she says. “I think probably the most important thing I learned was just being able to […]

From medicine to engineering, law to biology, the Record features 12 of WUSTL’s most interesting graduates in our Gallery of Graduates. Their profiles explore what brought them to the University, their accomplishments during their time as students and where they’re headed now.

When Carson Emmons Smith wasn’t working in her parents’ bicycle and fitness shop in Paducah, Ky., she was dribbling a soccer ball, whacking a softball, pirouetting in a dance studio or bouncing on her trampoline. “I love the outdoors,” says Smith, who also admits to growing up a bookworm. Naturally, it was under the spell […]

Antonio Stradivari reportedly crafted some 1,100 stringed instruments in the northern Italian city of Cremona and died a celebrated artist whose creations are coveted by musicians and collectors the world over. Why has the Stradivarius continued to set the standard of musical perfection, commanding more than $3.5 million at a Christie’s auction in 2006? Chanot […]

The “Search” Award — the William Greenleaf Eliot Society’s highest honor — was given to David C. Farrell at the Society’s 42nd annual dinner on April 16 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The award is presented each year to a person who has made enduring contributions to Washington University in St. Louis.

BoyerMartin Boyer has been named the Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery at the School of Medicine. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and Larry J. Shapiro, executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, announced the appointment.

Researchers at the School of Medicine have found a way to dress and undress Leishmania, a parasite that causes death and disfigurement in developing countries. Scientists showed that they could control the parasite’s ability to put on its carbohydrate coat, causing it to put on the whole coat, a lighter version or to forego the coat entirely.