Author: Ken Duenke

Photo by Mary ButkusLeila Nadya Sadat is installed as the first Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law Sept. 7 in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Todd S. Braver, Ph.D., Kyongtae T. Bae, Ph.D., Leif Johnson, Anne Niven, Ph.D., Jin-Moo Lee, M.D., and more…

Photo by Claudia BurrisFirst-year medical students enjoy the annual dean’s welcoming party, held Aug. 19 at the Saint Louis Zoo.

Arianna Huffington combines humor with intelligence to expose what she sees as fanatics, fools, and pigs at the trough. When she speaks at Washington University on Sept. 15 for the Assembly Series, she will be “Handicapping the presidential race.”

Most students who go abroad to study have many interesting tales to tell when they get home. But few, if any, also come back with fantastic stories of smuggling and spying. Fewer still parlay those stories into a Cold War thriller.

The prize is given to a scientist or physician “whose work has led to a major advance in basic or clinical nuclear medicine science.”

If not for his interest in nutrition, Samuel Klein, M.D., might never have gone to medical school. Originally, he was planning to become a marine biologist. There’s still some evidence of his first career choice in the corner of his office, where a tank full of exotic fish gurgles. But science and Klein both benefited […]

Bethany McLean, the Fortune magazine reporter who was the first to question how energy giant Enron made its money, will give an Assembly Series talk based on her book — The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron — at 11 a.m. Sept. 8 in Graham Chapel. McLean, now […]

Photo by Bob BostonRecent graduates work in the recently completed space that houses the University’s new genetic epidemiology master of science degree program.

The goal is to refine ideas that will benefit society and may have commercial value; individual grants of $20,000-50,000 are awarded.