Author: Kelly Wiese Niemeyer

Li Ding, associate professor at the School of Medicine, is a cryptographer of sorts. She develops computational tools to study the genetics of cancer.

Six Washington University in St. Louis students received scholarships or internship offers from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD),

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall will be flown at half-staff Wednesday, Dec. 7, in remembrance of the attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, which launched the United States into World War II.

If you have unwanted or broken holiday lights, don’t throw them away. The Office of Sustainability again is holding a holiday lights recycling drive. Bring them to drop-off spots around campus before Jan. 31.

Five members of Washington University in St. Louis have been honored with 2016 Emerson Electric Co. “Excellence in Teaching” awards.

A memorial service for Richard Teitelman, JD ’73, and judge on the Missouri Supreme Court, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, in Graham Chapel. Read more about Teitelman on the School of Law site.

Ignacio Infante, associate professor of comparative literature in Arts & Sciences, has been nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize by the literary journal Asymptote. He was nominated for his co-translation of Chilean poet Vincente Huidobro’s work “Temblor de cielo.”

The Program in Physical Therapy at the School of Medicine is opening a clinic on the Danforth Campus Jan. 3. The clinic will begin to accept appointments from faculty, staff and student patients Monday, Dec. 5.

George F. Van Hare III, MD, director of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named president-elect of the Heart Rhythm Society, a global research and education group focused on cardiac rhythm disorders.

Question: Which Washington University professor, past or present, was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?