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The complete text of the Faculty Senate Council resolution recognizing Samuel L. Stanley’s contribution to WUSTL.

A video-based motion analysis study has uncovered significant differences in how males and females go about kicking a soccer ball — differences that may help explain why women are more susceptible to a common knee injury, suggests a sports medicine researcher at Washington University.

The 11-story, 700,000 square-foot BJC Institute of Health at Washington UniversityThe exterior of the BJC Institute of Health at Washington University is almost a wrap. The building is enclosed in 24,000 square-feet of insulated metal panels, 20,800 square-feet of brick, 99,000 square-feet of limestone panels and 75,000 square-feet of glass. The focus now continues inward as crews prepare the building for a December 2009 opening.

*St. Louis Post-Dispatch* imageIt sounds like something from a science fiction movie: Sensors are surgically inserted in the brain to understand what you’re thinking. Machines that can speak, move or process information — based on the fleeting thoughts in a person’s imagination. But it’s not completely fictional. Researchers at Washington University have developed ways of tying humans and computers together.

Three School of Medicine employees were recognized this spring by Larry J. Shapiro, M.D., executive vice chancellor and dean of the School of Medicine, for their outstanding contributions and exceptional commitment and dedication to the school.

Summertime is beach time, swimming pool time and gardening time. Most of us spend a lot more time in the sun during the summer months than during the rest of the year, and Washington University dermatologists say it’s very important to protect ourselves from the sun’s damaging rays.

U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Wesley FarnsworthAirmen load the MRI machine onto a C-17 Globemaster.Members of the 375th Logistics Readiness Squadron at Scott Air Force Base recently loaded the 26,000-pound heart of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine onto a C-17 ultimately bound for Argentina. The MRI equipment was donated to a hospital in Salta, Argentina, by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

B. Don Taylor III, J.D., has been named executive director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute and Cash Nickerson Fellow at the School of Law. “Don Taylor’s extensive practical experience and scholarship in the areas of international criminal tribunals and courts will be a wonderful addition to the work of the Harris Institute,” […]

Photo by Eileen A. ClerRiccardo Ferdani (left), staff scientist in radiology, teaches students from Flynn Park Elementary in the University City School District about nanotechnology through the Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology grant.

Washington University is dismayed and shocked to learn that an attack was made today at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The university has a long-standing commitment to human rights and religious studies, including the Holocaust and Jewish studies, as well as being a sponsor of Holocaust lectures by experts from around the world.