Author: Neil Schoenherr

After graduating from Metro Academic and Classical High School in St. Louis, she received a WUSTL academic scholarship.

Jessica Anastasia Campbell died Thursday, March 10, 2005 after an extended illness. She was a junior at WUSTL and a native of St. Louis.

A study by Mark Schnitzler and a colleague study shows society could pay each donor $90,000 and easily break even. More medical articles

Photo by Kevin LowderThe Clothesline Project, part of Sexual Assault Awareness Week, was a visual display of shirts that bear witness to violence.

The program helps integrate faculty members into undergraduates’ residential life; more volunteers are needed.

Photo by Mary ButkusOriginal student works were on display at “In the Works: An Exhibition of Latino Contributions” in Whitaker Hall.

When both husband and wife hold college degrees, it is the husband’s degree — and the husband’s degree alone — that typically determines whether a “power couple” will move to another city for career purposes, suggests a new study by economists at Washington University in St. Louis. The study is bad news for young women seeking gender equity in salary and career opportunities.

The U.S. Supreme Court is again considering whether it is constitutional to display the Ten Commandments on public property. An expert on the American religious experience from Washington University in St. Louis argues that the only way to allow all citizens to contribute to this country’s religious tapestry is for religion not to have a direct role in civil affairs and on government property. “If there is anything the Founding Fathers wanted to avoid, it was a repeat of the wars of religion that wracked Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries,” says Frank K. Flinn, Ph.D., adjunct professor of religious studies in Arts & Sciences.

Joshua Brown of WUSTLA new theory suggests that the brain may subconsciously help us avoid risky situations.While some scientists discount the existence of a sixth sense for danger, new research from Washington University in St. Louis has identified a brain region that clearly acts as an early warning system — one that monitors environmental cues, weighs possible consequences and helps us adjust our behavior to avoid dangerous situations. “Our brains are better at picking up subtle warning signs than we previously thought,” says WUSTL research psychologist Joshua Brown, co-author of a study on these findings in the Feb. 18 issue of the journal Science.

Photo by Mary ButkusThe Suspicious of Whistlers comedy troupe recently competed against Mama’s Pot Roast, another student improv group.