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The Coordinating Council for Diversity Initiatives is accepting grant applications for initiatives that improve the campus environment for women and members of underrepresented minority groups who are on faculty or staff at WUSTL.

Margaret Bush Wilson, WUSTL trustee emerita, prominent civil rights attorney in the 1960s and the first woman of color to chair the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died Tuesday, Aug. 11, after a short illness. She was 90.

Photo by Robert BostonElliot Elson’s lab is a center of collaboration and invention.

The volleyball team will begin its season ranked No. 5 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) top 25 poll. Head coach Rich Luenemann led WUSTL to a 32-7 overall record last year, winning the University Athletic Association (UAA) championship and advancing to the NCAA Division III regional finals. The Bears count three returning starters […]

Photo by Joe AngelesThe new Post-9/11 G.I. Bill is expected to attract even more veteran candidates to Washington University.

Itch and pain signals are transmitted along different pathways in the spinal cord, School of Medicine researchers have found.

When estrogen-lowering drugs no longer control metastatic breast cancer, the opposite strategy might work.

Kelle H. Moley, M.D., has been named the first James P. Crane Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Washington University Orthopedics provided medical care for the Saint Louis Athletica women’s professional soccer team.

Photo by Robert BostonChristine Yokoyama (left), a first-year medical student, receives a white coat from her father, Wayne Yokoyama, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the Medical Scientist Training Program, at the Class of 2013 White Coat Ceremony Aug. 14 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center.