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The first time you don a new pair of bifocals, what you perceive visually and what your hand does may be very different.Marvin Gaye wailed in the ’60s hit “Heard it through the Grapevine,” that we’re supposed to believe just half of what we see. But a new collaborative study involving a biomedical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis and neurobiologists at the University of Pittsburgh shows that sometimes you can’t believe anything that you see. More importantly, the researchers have identified areas of the brain where what we’re actually doing (reality) and what we think we’re doing (illusion, or perception) are processed.

Coached by educators who were anxious to prove that colleges and universities were military assets, the War Department in the spring and summer of 1918 laid plans for the organization of the Student’s Army Training Corps. Able-bodied men from ages 18-21 with a high-school education could seek admission to any college or university on the […]

Scholars from around the world will come to the Hilltop Campus Feb. 12-14 for the symposium “Tennessee Williams: The Secret Year.”

His book is titled Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of Public Reasoning.

A study that included investigators in the School of Medicine is the first to demonstrate an association between a particular gene and alcoholism. Click here for more medical articles

Study participants with optic nerve disease were 20 times more likely to be pathologically sleepy than those with normal sight. Click here for more medical articles

Angela Miller, associate professor of Art History and Archaeology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University, and Andrew Walker, senior curator at the Missouri Historical Society, will speak on Painting America in the 19th Century for the Gallery of Art’s Friday Forum series at 7 p.m. Friday, April 2. CALENDAR SUMMARY WHO: Angela Miller, associate […]

Sabine Eckmann, curator of the Washington University Gallery of Art, and David Bonetti, visual arts critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will speak on Art and Pleasure for the Gallery of Art’s Friday Forum series at 7 p.m. Friday, March 19. CALENDAR SUMMARY WHO: Sabine Eckmann, curator, Washington University Gallery of Art, and David Bonetti, […]

Washington University faculty and staff make news around the world. Following is a representative sampling of media coverage from clippings and electronic sources received between October 1 and December 31, 2003. Cancer gene may predict relapse A first-of-its-kind genetic test will soon be available to help women with breast cancer make one of their most […]

The following incidents were reported to University Police Jan. 21-27. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. Jan. 22 7:43 p.m. — A person […]