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Courtesy photoSamir Kaushik and Andrew Nash receive the final trophy from six judges of the Bombay High Court.Andrew Nash and Samir Kaushik, third-year law students from Washington University in St. Louis, won the prestigious D.M. Harish Memorial International Law Moot Court Competition (DMH), held in Mumbai, India. The two defeated teams from around the world en route to the championship and eventually defeated a team from Cornell Law School in the championship round. In addition, Nash took individual honors, winning second-best oralist in the Competition. This marked the first year that a United States school has competed in the DMH, which has historically been limited to schools from former members of the British Commonwealth.

Jane Hammond, detail from *Fallen,* 2004-ongoing.The News & Information Web site at Washington University in St. Louis provides the images below for free use by media for purposes of news coverage of the exhibition On the Margins, on view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Feb. 8 to April 21. All other uses are prohibited. Please read the full Image Use Policy below.

John Zaborszky joined Washington University in St. Louis in 1954, where he developed the Department of Systems Science and Mathematics. He chaired this department, which emphasized control and systems engineering, until 1989.

Biomed Radio is the weekly radio service from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. All episodes are available for free download as podcasts in the iTunes Store.

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The University and pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. will collaborate more closely under a new biomedical research agreement that has the potential to move discoveries from the laboratory bench to patients’ bedsides more quickly. The five-year, $25 million agreement represents a new model of partnership between academia and industry.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hold a special session from 9-11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, in the School of Law’s Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The public is invited to hear three appeals cases related to three topics: misconduct during the discovery process, wrongful death and First Amendment retaliation. The […]

Washington University was one of 60 universities invited to participate in a People’s Burn Foundation (PBF) pilot study on a PBF-produced fire safety video. The Department of Environmental Health and Safety coordinated the project with the PBF. The video, titled “To Hell and Back III: The College Years,” aims to educate college and university students […]

The University has received one of five $3,000 Call to Serve grants from the Partnership for Public Service to promote working in government service. “This grant will help students understand that working for the federal government is not only an exciting career path, but also a valuable way to make a difference in the future […]

The School of Medicine will play a leading role in an international collaboration to sequence the genomes of 1,000 individuals by participating in the ambitious 1,000 Genomes Project, designed to create the most detailed picture to date of human genetic variation and assist in the identification of many genetic factors underlying common diseases.