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Bob BostonThe School of Medicine throws a party for a group of cerebral palsy patients from around the world, at the medical school for extended treatment and care.

Thousands are expected to visit the campuses for the all-day celebration, but volunteers are needed to help welcome the guests.

This feature will run in each 2003-04 issue of the Record as part of the observance of Washington University’s 150th anniversary.

The University’s football season has yet to officially begin but the accolades have already started to pile in, as sophomore wide receiver Brad Duesing and junior defensive back John Woock were named to the Division III Pre-Season All-America team as chosen by Don Hansen’s Football Gazette. Woock was named to the second-team after picking up […]

The Class of 2007 has barely set foot on campus, and these students already have homework. Fortunately, it’s more stimulating than it is stressful. A new initiative for New Student Orientation 2003, which runs through Aug. 26, is a program called “Faculty Perspectives,” which gives freshmen the opportunity to engage in a lively discussion with […]

Researchers’ findings offer an explanation for recurrent urinary tract infections and why the body’s defenses or antibiotic treatments often don’t cure them.

Professor and Chief of Surgery Fred T. Murphy performs the first operation, an appendectomy, at Barnes Hospital on Dec. 14, 1915. Five years earlier, the School of Medicine, which was established in 1891, had entered into an agreement with Barnes Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital that allowed the medical school to conduct clinical research […]

David KilperMiddle-school mathematics teachers met this summer to strengthen curricula thanks to the University’s Science Outreach program.

Joe AngelesRick Larsen served as athletic trainer on the set of a soccer movie that was filmed in St. Louis this summer.

Washington University is among 15 universities across the country selected by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, Mo., to participate in its “Kauffman Campuses Initiative,” a new program aimed at making entrepreneurship education a common and accessible opportunity campus-wide. The Kauffman program builds on an emerging trend at colleges and universities — expanding […]