Employees recognized for years of service to School of Medicine
More than 500 employees were recognized June 2 for their service to the School of Medicine.
NIH grants $19 million to Medical School
School of Medicine scientists received $19 million in grants to study microbes in the human body and determine how they contribute to health and disease.
Helping hands
U.S Airforce Photo/Airman 1st Class Wesley FarnsworthThe School of Medicine donated an MRI machine to aid in research and routine health care in Argentina.
Crowder named Brown Professor in Anesthesiology
C. Michael Crowder, M.D., Ph.D., has been named the Dr. Seymour and Rose T. Brown Professor in Anesthesiology.
Freund visiting artist announced
Installation artist Allison Smith will serve as the inaugural Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Smith is known for creating large-scale works that critically engage popular forms of historical re-enactment, along with crafts and other traditional cultural conventions, to redo, restage and refigure […]
‘Chance’ exhibit opens Kemper 2009-10 season
Courtesy PhotoThe Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present this fall “Chance Aesthetics,” a major loan exhibition examining the use of chance in modern art. The exhibition is the first of four major shows slated for the 2009-10 academic year.
Sam Stanley resolution
The complete text of the Faculty Senate Council resolution recognizing Samuel L. Stanley’s contribution to WUSTL.
Motion analysis helps soccer players get their kicks
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.
Exterior is nearly complete on the BJC Institute of Health
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.
Technology connects people’s thoughts to machines
*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.
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