Author: Neil Schoenherr

A new Washington University in St. Louis website was launched Monday, Aug. 9, following three months of concerted effort and interviews with numerous faculty, staff and student experts on all campuses of the university.

Genevieve K. Croft, graduate student in biology in Arts & Sciences, and Barbara A. Schaal, PhD, the Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor, have received a two-year, $14,969 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Evolution and Ecological Change in the Domestication Process: Insights From the Incipiently Domesticated Fruit Tree, Byrsonima crassifolia (Malpighiaceae).” … Leslie […]

Pass the chips and hand over the remote. In a study involving the first-ever daily energy expenditure measurements in apes, a researcher from Washington University in St. Louis and his team have determined that orangutans living in a large indoor/outdoor habitat used less energy, relative to body mass, than nearly any eutherian mammal ever measured, including sedentary humans.

Two doctoral students have received Fulbright-Hays grants to conduct research abroad in the 2010-2011 academic year.

Patrick Crowley, PhD, associate professor of computer science and engineering, has received a four-year, $850,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Multicore Virtual Machines for High-Speed Networking.” … Ted Hansen, PhD, professor of pathology and immunology and of genetics, received a one-year, $150,617 Development Project grant from the Midwest Regional Center of […]

Mary Jane Acuna, graduate student in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, and David A. Freidel, PhD, professor of anthropology, have received a one-year, $19,639 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Monitoring the Development of Early Kingship at El Achiotal, a Preclassic (800 BCE-200 CE) Maya Frontier Royal Center in Northwestern Peten, Guatemala.” […]

Fifteen current or former WUSTL students have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships for the 2010-11 academic year. Nine are recently graduated seniors and six are graduate students. They will spend a full academic year in a host country.

Brian Marston (left), library web services developer; Jaleh Fazelian, Islamic studies librarian; and Brian Vetruba, Germanic studies librarian, examine an Amazon Kindle reading device during the Taste of Technology fair July 8 at Olin Library.

Five WUSTL undergraduate students who graduated in May have been named to the USA Today’s 2010 All-USA College Academic Team. Tegan Bukowski and Chase Sackett were named to the second team, Cameron Ball was named to the third team, and Emily Becker and Andrew Hoekzema were named as honorable mentions. … Han Kim, a rising […]

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not simply a random accident. There will be more of these spills to come, as the days of easy oil are over, says an anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis.