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About.com Brain activated when monetary opportunities arise 08/23/2010 Whether it’s sports, poker or the high-stakes world of business, there are those who always find a way to win when there’s money on the table. The findings by psychology researchers at Washington University in St. Louis may help to unravel the workings of a novel brain […]

Members of the Class of 2014 and new transfer and exchange students are arriving on campus and will be welcomed with a variety of activities during New Student Orientation, Aug. 26-30. New students will have the opportunity to try the new Bear’s Den dining facility, attend open houses, see the football team in action and connect with other new students and with members of the university community.

Robert E. Blankenship, PhD, the Markey Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $38,183 subaward from the University of Washington for research titled “Thermodynamic Efficiency of Electron-Transfer Reactions in Purified Photosystem I and II Complexes in the Chlorophyll D-Containing Cyanobacterium, Acaryochloris Marina.” … David B. Gray, PhD, professor of occupational therapy and […]

nature.com Woods Hole to breed Xenopus research frogs 08/17/2010 The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) today announced 
that it has received a 5-year, $3.4 million grant to establish a national resource for the aquatic frog known as Xenopus, a major model organism used in regenerative biology research. Kristen Kroll, associate professor of developmental biology at Washington […]

Scientific American A new form of chlorophyll? 08/19/2010 Researchers may have found a new form of chlorophyll, the pigment that plants, algae and cyanobacteria use to obtain energy from light through photosynthesis. Preliminary findings published August 19 in Science suggest that the newly discovered molecule, dubbed chlorophyll f, has a distinct chemical composition when compared […]

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Blagojevich trial nets 1 conviction 08/18/2010 The count on which Blagojevich was found guilty included accusations that he lied to federal agents when he said he did not track campaign contributions and kept a “firewall” between political campaigns and government work. It carries a sentence of up to five years in prison. […]

Cornerstone: The Center for Advanced Learning has received a $1.76 million five-year grant from the United States Department of Education to fund the TRiO Student Support Services program.

The Telegraph (UK) Human Microbiome Project: a map of every bacterium in the body 9/17/2010 The Human Microbiome Project is unraveling the vastly important job that the unseen bacteria and microbes that live in and on our bodies play in human health. “We should no longer think of these organisms in isolation,” says Professor George […]

The New York Times Outdoors and out of reach, studying the brain 08/16/2010 GLEN CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Utah — Todd Braver emerges from a tent nestled against the canyon wall. He has a slight tan, except for a slim pale band around his wrist. For the first time in three days in the wilderness, […]