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Photo by Mary ButkusThe Women’s Society of Washington University honored the legacy of two of the University’s most revered women — Harriet K. Switzer and the late Elizabeth Gray Danforth — at its annual meeting April 15.

The search for the cause of an inherited form of a rare childhood cancer potentially sheds light on the development of other cancers.

Automatic external defibrillators are being installed in medical school buildings to improve a person’s chances of survival after sudden cardiac arrest.

A procedure commonly thought to improve pregnancy rates during IVF does not affect outcomes in most women younger than 38 years old.

John N. Constantino, M.D., has been named the Blanche F. Ittleson Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics.

Photo by Robert BostonStoryCorps visited the Siteman Cancer Center April 17-21 to record parents and children recalling how the parent communicated a cancer diagnosis to their children.

A handsome prince, a distant land, a damsel in distress. Yet in the world of “The Magic Flute,” little is as it seems. At 8 p.m. May 1 and 2, Washington University Opera will present an abridged version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s beloved classic in Karl Umrath Hall.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts honored six outstanding architecture and art alumni at its second annual Awards for Distinction dinner April 23.

School of Medicine clinical faculty and staff recently collected more than 1,500 medical textbooks to be donated to the Lui Hospital in Sudan, located in the war zone of southern Sudan. The staff who work there rely on outdated medical references, some dating back to the 1930s.

In keeping with Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton’s commitment to financial and environmental sustainability, the University has decided to shut down the main steam plant on the Danforth Campus on Monday, April 27, three weeks earlier than usual.