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When Leah Merrifield left St. Louis and her job advising undergraduate business students at the University, she really didn’t expect to be coming back — much less coming back to the same environment she left. But 10 years after accompanying her husband, who took the head basketball coaching job at Emory University, she found herself […]

Photo by Mary ButkusChancellor Mark S. Wrighton delivered the keynote and received an award at the Mathews-Dickey “Say Amen” Banquet Aug. 19.

Photo by Kevin LowderThis year, University employees helped at eight different centers over two weeks for the annual United Way Days of Caring program

With all of the construction happening on the Hilltop Campus, pedestrians are urged to take alternate, safer routes.

Washington University Medical Center will serve as a venue for the fourth in a series of congressional subcommittee hearings concerning the use of health information technology to improve the quality and delivery of health care. The hearing, convened by the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Federal Workforce and Agency Organization, will occur at 1 […]

He had been an adjunct professor at DePaul University College of Law since fall 2004.

Jonathan S. Turner, Ph.D., was named the Barbara J. and Jerome R. Cox, Jr. Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. The professorship was established by Jerome Cox, Sc.D., and his wife, Barbara, to advance the relationship between theory and practice in the design of digital systems. Jerome Cox is a senior faculty member and a former chair in the same department.

The Children’s Discovery Institute, which will begin research later this year, named an executive director and scientific director.

On Aug. 7, Metro made the announcement that nearly everyone has been waiting for: The Cross County Extension is complete and will be open for transit Aug. 26. Given the anticipation of the eight-mile extension, it would seem that a celebration would be in order, and both the University and Metro are planning to deliver. The University will host a Grand Opening Celebration from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Aug. 26 in the parking lot just outside Uncas A. Whitaker Hall. Planned activities include a miniature train ride, arts and crafts, music and refreshments.

Patrick WinterIn laboratory tests, one very low dose of a drug was enough to have an effect on notoriously tenacious artery-clogging plaques. What kind of drug is that potent? It’s not so much the drug itself as how it was delivered. Fumagillin — a drug that can inhibit the growth of new blood vessels that feed atherosclerotic plaques — was sent directly to the base of plaques by microscopically small spheres called nanoparticles developed by School of Medicine researchers.