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Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton addresses the WUSTL community on how faculty, staff and students can help relief efforts in Japan.

(From left) Brown School students perform a multi-cultural fusion dance during the 17th annual International Festival held March 6 at the 560 Music Building. The theme of this year’s festival was “1 Community, A World of Traditions.”

Gautam Dantas, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and immunology, has received a one-year, $120,000 grant from the Washington University/Pfizer Biomedical Research Program for research titled “Discovery of Mechanistically Novel Antibiotic Combinations that Inhibit Multi-drug Resistant Gram-negative Pathogens.” … Stuart Greenbaum, PhD, former dean of Olin Business School and the Bank of America Professor Emeritus of […]

Los Angeles Times
 Aftershocks prompt fears of major Tokyo quake
 03/15/2011 The pattern of aftershocks in Japan appears to be shifting south toward Tokyo, raising concerns among scientists that the temblors could transfer stress to nearby faults. The fear is that the initial quake and the series of large aftershocks will transfer geophysical stress into […]

Paper airplane competitions were only a part of the annual Engineering Week Feb. 20-25. The annual week, sponsored by the School of Engineering & Applied Science, is designed to raise awareness of the profession and included a scavenger “golden mouse” hunt throughout the engineering school, Nerf gun battles and the traditional “Mr. Engineering” pageant.

Associated Press
 Canadian boy moved to US over end-of-life dispute
 03/15/2011 A Canadian couple transferred their terminally ill toddler son to a Catholic hospital in St. Louis after an Ontario court ruled doctors could remove breathing tube keeping the boy alive. Rebecca Dresser, a professor of law and medical ethics at Washington University in St. […]

CNN / Cable News Network Doug Wiens joins John King’s live coverage of tsunami aftermath 3 /11/2011 Doug Wiens, chairman of Washington University department of earth and planetary sciences, joins CNN live from St. Louis to help explain the science of tsunamis. Wiens discussed the earthquake and its context within the “ring of fire,” a […]

Keith Bridwell, MD, the Asa C. and Dorothy W. Jones Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Lawrence Lenke, MD, the Jerome J. Gilden, MD, Endowed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, are the 2011 recipients of the National Marfan Foundation’s Hero with a Heart Awards, which will be presented Feb. 26 at Heartworks St. Louis at the […]

The New York Times
 The face on the canvas and other mysteries
 03/10/2011 Chicago artist Jim Nutt, 72, has been painting the same subject day after day, for the last 25 years: the off-kilter face of an imaginary woman with a monumental nose. His interest in the human face dates back to the influence of […]

Rebecca Skloot uncovered the incredible story of Henrietta Lacks, a medical mystery that illuminates the still-murky intersection of medical science, race and class. Her bookThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has won numerous awards and is a New York Times bestseller. She will speak for the Assembly Series at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, in Graham Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.