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The deadline for applications for the Bear Cub Fund is Sept. 1. The fund, which was founded to help support the development of new inventions, was established by the Office of Research to help University inventors attract investment interest. For more details, contact Tom Hagerty at 747-0926 or hagertyt@wustl.edu.

The patent is for a technique that protects crops from devastating viral diseases that currently threaten or harm many important food crops.

Fall highlights include prominent scientists and colloquia on the environment; many lectures are part of the Sesquicentennial celebration.

Thomas Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, best-selling author and foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, will discuss “What Kind of International Borders Will Exist in the 21st Century?” for the Assembly Series at 11 a.m. Sept. 17 in the Athletic Complex. Friedman’s lecture also is the Arts & Sciences Sesquicentennial Lecture. Having won […]

The CMI will enable collaborators from across the University to make advances in materials research, eventually touching many aspects of daily life.

The football team suffered its first season-opening home loss in 11 years as the Bears dropped a 24-21 decision to Illinois Wesleyan University Sept. 13. Sophomore Brad Duesing finished the game with a season-high 149 yards on six catches and two touchdowns. Other updates The No. 4 volleyball team (12-3) hosted the inaugural Teri Clemens […]

Projects such as the new Earth and Planetary Sciences Building, the MetroLink expansion and Olin Library’s renovations are progressing as planned.

It was a major step forward in a plan begun more than a decade ago to launch a nationally prominent biomedical engineering department.

Photo by Mary ButkusStudents finish the roof of a traditional Japanese teahouse waiting bench in the Elizabeth Danforth Butterfly Garden.

The professors of psychology and biology, respectively, are among the 348 individuals elected as fellows for 2003.