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Alberto Friedmann hasn’t let a diagnosis of a degenerative joint disease stop him from doing anything he has wanted to do in life. In August, the exercise physiologist in the Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science and seventh-degree black belt received a lifetime achievement award from the Southeastern Martial Arts Hall of Fame in Orlando, […]

Terry Smith, J.D., professor of law at Fordham University and nationally recognized expert on race and politics, will kick off Washington University School of Law’s 11th annual Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series with a timely talk on “Politics and Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Meaning of a Black President” on Tuesday, Sept. 23. The fall line-up of speakers also includes an international peace negotiator, a former government environmental attorney and administrator, a renowned human rights lawyer and author, and a nationally recognized leader in the marriage equality movement.

Web users can now have the latest medical news stories and radio releases from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis sent straight to their desktop via RSS.

Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotoAs the Oct. 2 vice presidential debate looms closer, many in the WUSTL community are hard at work preparing for its arrival. The debate is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m., CDT.

Photo by David KilperStudents and staff from the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum lift Thaddeus Strode’s massive canvas “The Doppelganger’s Boneyard” (2007) into place in the Saligman Family Atrium last month.

Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are being invited to take part in a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars to be held on campus biweekly through Dec. 1. Now in its 13th year, the “Work, Families and Public Policy” series […]

Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Students were able to enjoy a variety of activities during Fall Orientation Aug. 21-26, such as dancing at the South 40 and participating in “SUp all night” in the Danforth University Center.

The No. 2 volleyball team began its 2008 season with four victories at the 2008 Washington University Invitational in the WU Field House. Senior setter Audra Janak and senior rightside attacker Nikki Morrison were named to the all-tournament team. Janak finished the weekend with 89 assists, 28 digs and 12 kills, while Morrison hit a […]

Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Barbara Baumgartner, Ph.D. (top, center), associate director and senior lecturer in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program in Arts & Sciences, chats with freshmen outside the Danforth University Center Aug. 25. The group was discussing Elizabeth Kolbert’s book “Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change,” the book chosen for this year’s Freshman Reading Program.

School of Medicine research found that silver-coated endotracheal tubes led to a 36 percent reduction of ventilator-associated pneumonia.