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D. Craig Allred, MD, professor of pathology and immunology, has received a one-year, $24,000 grant from the Longer Life Foundation for research titled “Predicting Prognosis in Invasive Breast Cancer by Genetic Instability.” … Tamara Burlis, DPT, assistant professor of physical therapy and associate director for clinical education in physical therapy, has been appointed by Missouri […]

Chronicle of Higher Education Dumped on by data: Scientists say a deluge Is drowning research 02/10/2011 The Human Connectome Project will allow researchers to navigate freely available data to come up with new ideas about the brain. “The insights emerge from comparing across a whole collection of studies looking at similar, but not identical, questions,” […]

The 2011 Adam Cherrick Lecture, sponsored by Arts & Sciences, will be held at 4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 13, in Busch Hall, Room. 100. Rabbi Marc Saperstein, principal of Leo Baeck College, Europe’s premier center for progressive Jewish learning, will address the topic of Christian-Jewish relations.

Chronicle of Higher Education
 Colleges’ student health plans would offer more protections under proposed rules
 02/10/2011 Students on college-sponsored health insurance plans would receive protections similar to those that last year’s healthcare reform law is providing to the general population, under proposed regulations. “Until these regulations came out … it was a challenge working with […]

At a time when the American economy needs the best and the brightest economic minds, prominent banker and philanthropist Sam B. Cook has given Washington University a critical resource to help develop the next generation of economic leaders with a gift of $1.5 million to establish a professorship in the Department of Economics in Arts & Sciences.

Three new three-week Summer Institutes for high school students will be offered at Washington University in St. Louis in 2011. The High School Summer Institutes — one of which focuses on creative writing, one on Japanese popular culture and on one pre-medical topics — are part of Washington University’s High School Summer Experiences program in Arts & Sciences.

Students perform a dance Feb. 5 in Edison Theatre at the Lunar New Year Festival, the annual event sponsored by Asian student groups on campus. 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit, and people born under this Chinese symbol are said to be articulate, talented and ambitious.

The Hindustan Times – Patna Edition
 How to turn bacteria against themselves
 02/09/2011 Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have explained a mechanism by which bacteria protect themselves from their own toxins. Bacteria often attack with toxins designed to hijack or even kill host cells. But they also have ways to […]

BBC News | Health (UK) Chromosome fault linked to sleepwalking 2/8/2011 A genetic link to sleepwalking has been identified by researchers. They studied four generations of a family of sleepwalkers and concluded that the condition is associated with a fault in a section of chromosome 20, BBC News reported. Just one copy of the defective […]

UPI
 Bills to restrict abortion to get hearings
 02/07/2011 Expanded restrictions on federal funding of abortion get separate committee hearings this week in the U.S. House of Representatives, but observers don’t foresee the measures making it through the Senate. “They can’t expect this legislation to go beyond the House of Representatives,” said Steve Smith, a […]