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Li-Wei Chang, PhD, research instructor in pathology and immunology, has received a two-year, $180,000 career transition award from the National Library of Science for research titled “Novel Bioinformatics Tools for Gene Regulatory Network Inference.” … Matthew Erlin, PhD, associate professor of German in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $50,400 Fellowship for University Teachers […]

Inside Higher Ed Yanked from the margins 02/18/2011 A new blue-ribbon commission has been assembled in a bid to put the humanities and social sciences on an equal footing on the public agenda with science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Gerald Early, professor of modern letters at Washington University in St. Louis, is among 41 cultural […]

Location. Budget. Materials. Architecture is the art of negotiating constraints — to say nothing of clients, zoning and the unique history and particular characteristics of a given place. “There’s no such thing as a blank slate,” says Kathryn Dean, a principal of Dean/Wolf Architects in New York and director of the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. 

Pioneering game developer Ernest Adams, who had a hand in developing the Madden NFL Football line and Dungeon Keeper, will be on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis for an Assembly Series presentation at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, in Steinberg Hall Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

The annual George Washington Week, sponsored by the sophomore honorary Lock & Chain, kicks off on President’s Day, Monday, Feb. 21. The week will have many opportunities to celebrate Washington University’s namesake, including presentations, horse and buggy rides, dancing and volunteer opportunities.

Photonics Online Guide star lets scientists see deep into human tissue 02/7/2011 Ultrasound guide star and time-reversal mirror can focus light deep under the skin, a game-changing improvement in biomedical imaging technology. Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has invented a guide star […]

Freshmen Ana Solorio (left), Michelle Hall and Dylan Simonsen chat with James E. McLeod, vice chancellor for students and dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, during a reception this winter at Whittemore House. The three students were honored as the inaugural class of James E. McLeod Scholars.

Librarian Ruth Lewis (right) shows senior Huifeng Yu (left) how a digital research management tool works at Olin Library’s Taste of Technology fair Feb. 10. Yu was among the many students, faculty and staff who stopped by the fair, where Washington University Libraries staff demonstrated a variety of technologies useful in research, education and entertainment.

Financial Times (London, England) A profile that spans the globe 2/14/2011 MBA and EMBA programmes — business degrees for working executives — are proliferating in China, mirroring the country’s economic growth. Such rapid growth, especially within the last decade, has meant that many of the top-tier universities in China have multiple and overlapping MBA and […]

Historian Sean Wilentz, PhD, will be on campus for three days next week delivering this year’s “President’s Week” lectures for the Assembly Series. The lectures will provide an overview of the role these presidents — Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant — played in advancing democratic nationalism, which in turn led to the abolition of slavery.