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CNN.com Family says it has Michelangelo work 10/13/2010 A painting that hung for years in the family living room of a retired Air Force officer may be the lost work of Italian master Michelangelo, according to at least one expert. Others are skeptical. Michelangelo expert and Washington University art history professor, William Wallace, who saw […]

The Washington University Human Research Protection Office has launched an Internet-based submission system that will allow researchers to submit human research studies to the Institutional Review Board (IRB) electronically.

International Herald Tribune Hungarian start-ups compete against giants 10/11/2010 Michael Simon is very much a Midwestern American, with degrees from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Yet he has carved out a most unusual niche in the software industry as the purveyor of blockbuster Hungarian start-ups, including […]

WUSTL will celebrate Campus Sustainability Day Wednesday, Oct. 20, and many sustainability-themed events will be held in late October throughout the Danforth and Medical campuses. Campus Sustainability Day is held to bring attention to the achievements and challenges for students, faculty and staff in working to instill sustainability principles in higher education institutions. 

Washington, the magazine for Washington University in St. Louis, is changing. An online version of the magazine will be published six times a year (October, December, February, April, June and August). This will allow the magazine to communicate with its audiences more frequently as well as lessen the magazine’s environmental impact.

The Australian A ‘Mike’ found in buffalo? 10/10/2010 A family in upstate New York may have had an unfinished Michelangelo painting hanging on their living room wall for years. Michelangelo expert William Wallace, a professor of architecture and art history at Washington University in St. Louis, said he saw the painting before it had been […]

Jill Edwards, project manager for university accreditation programs, and members of the Gateway Battalion Army ROTC pack boxes of donated home-baked goods, snacks, batteries, toiletries and more to send in care packages to U.S. troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan Oct. 1. The WUSTL military care package group surpassed five tons of goods donated by the WUSTL community and mailed overseas to soldiers since the group formed in March 2004.

WUSTL alumnus Adam Ross returns to campus on Oct 19. at 7 p.m. to read and discuss his new novel, Mr. Peanut, a dark look at the complexities of marriage.

William E. Buhro, PhD, the George E. Pake Professor in Arts & Sciences, has been selected as a fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The ACS Fellows Program recognizes members for their contributions to the chemical sciences and outstanding service to the society. … Yixin Chen, PhD, and Chenyang Lu, PhD, both associate professors […]

Discovery News Laser will melt your brain (tumor, that Is) 10/8/2010 A laser beam has been developed that can cook brain tumors. The research from Washington University could help save the lives of people with, until now, inoperable brain tumors, and could soon be extended to destroy other tumors in other parts of the body […]