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Student Life, the 125 year-old independent student newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis, will be celebrating that milestone with a reunion Sept. 12-14. Expected to attend and speak are former Student Life writers Michael Isikoff (A&S ’74), investigative reporter for Newsweek magazine who broke the Monica Lewinsky story in 1998; Ken Cooper (A&S ’77), national editor for The Boston Globe; and Mike Peters (A&S ’65), creator of the “Mother Goose and Grimm” comic strip.

In recognition of the Sesquicentennial theme “Treasuring the Past, Shaping the Future,” Arts & Sciences is hosting four “Conversations.”

The forum will be led by a panel of experts discussing how certain social issues affect all of us and how we affect them.

Visitors to the University’s home Web site might have a nice surprise waiting for them: It’s been redesigned. Improving appearance and ease of use were two of the main goals. “We redesign the main Univer-sity Web site on a two-year cycle to keep it fresh-looking, and to adjust our content and navigation to reflect what […]

The goal for the 2003 campaign is $500,000; University faculty and staff members should have already received pledge cards.

A task force developed procedures for instances when an undergraduate seeks to pursue a grievance against a faculty member.

“This study helps us better understand how these parasites are transmitted and how they establish infections,” said principal investigator Stephen M. Beverley.

“Cohen’s world is a world of ongoing catastrophe, in which natural and manmade disasters seem to radiate triumphant,” said guest curator Lutz Koepnick.

New evidence found by School of Medicine researchers marks significant progress in understanding a critical nervous system pathway.

Not long ago, Diana L. Gray, M.D., gently told a young teacher expecting her first child that without fetal interventive surgery, her unborn baby boy most likely would not survive. Gray was faced with the most difficult aspect of being an obstetrical geneticist. She had to explain that an expanding cyst was compressing the baby’s […]