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Photo by David KilperGraduate student Jason He (left) and Lars Angenent, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemical engineering and a member of the University’s Environmental Engineering Science Program, work with a version of their microbial fuel cell.In the midst of the worldwide energy crisis, WUSTL researchers have continued their work on a microbial fuel cell that generates electricity from wastewater. Advances in the design of this fuel cell in the past year have increased the power output by a factor of 10 and future designs, already in the minds of the researchers, hope to multiply that power output by 10 times. If that goal can be achieved, the fuel cell could be scaled up for use in food and agricultural industries to generate electrical power — all with the wastewater that today goes right down the drain.

Constant blood flow shields the brain from cold, limiting the effects of any attempt to cool the brain.Attempts to cool the brain to reduce injury from stroke and other head trauma may face a significant obstacle: current cooling devices can’t penetrate very deeply into the brain. Scientists at the School of Medicine have shown that blood flow in the brain creates a “cold shielding” effect and have developed a method for calculating brain temperature that may be used to improve brain cooling techniques.

Stan StrembickiKemper Art Museum, detail of the southern facade. August 2006. In 1960 a young Japanese architecture professor named Fumihiko Maki completed his first-ever commission while teaching at Washington University in St. Louis. Four decades later, Maki is among the world’s premier architects, a Pritzker Prize-winner renowned for creating monumental spaces that fuse Eastern and Western sensibilities. Current projects include both the $330 million United Nations expansion in Manhattan and Tower 4 at the former World Trade Center site. Now Maki has returned to Washington University as architect of the new Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, a dramatic, light-filled structure that will showcase the university’s internationally renowned art collection.

Photo by Robert Boston Jean Audrain in the Department of Internal Medicine receives the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award from Larry J. Shapiro, M.D., executive vice chancellor and dean of the School of Medicine.

Photo by Mary Butkus The Office of Human Resources sponsored the annual free health screenings event.

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

He will coordinate the development and implementation of strategic and tactical plans for IT.

He has received several teaching awards in his 30 years at the School of Medicine.

The film tells the complete story of the Arch, from Thomas Jefferson to Lewis and Clark to the pioneers.

She will assume responsibility for alumni relations, annual giving and parent programs, among others.