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Unraveling the mysteries of the human brain, and the mind it gives rise to, is within the reach of modern science, suggests a forthcoming issue of the journal Neuroscience. The special issue explores how sophisticated working memory processes — from the firing of a single neuron to the activation of multiple brain regions — help shape our understanding of the world, says issue co-editor Grega Repovs, a visiting post-doctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis.

Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photo ServicesLingerie by Natalie AntinPress images for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ 77th Annual Fashion Design Show, which takes place at Saint Louis Galleria Sunday, May 7.

SansaloneMary J. Sansalone, Ph.D., professor of structural engineering at Cornell University, will become dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis on July 1, 2006, according to Mark S. Wrighton, chancellor.

John MajorThe Right Honorable Sir John Major, former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and a leading authority on the changing global landscape, has been selected to give the 2006 Commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. The university’s 145th Commencement will begin at 8:30 a.m. May 19 in Brookings Quadrangle. Major’s talk is titled “The Changing World.”

Courtesy ImageDigital Imaging & Photography Program juniors recently spent a month documenting the work of Operation Food Search; an exhibit runs through April 19.

In the last 30 years, the number of overweight children has doubled in the United States, and overweight children are at increased risk for the problem. More medical news

Ten Northern Red Oaks will be planted along Forsyth Boulevard April 14; and a Valley Forge Elm will be planted in Brookings Quadrangle.

Philosophy and psychology professors from schools around the country will discuss evolution’s impact on morality, moral reasoning and the psychology of happiness.

Employees enrolled in the optional term life insurance plan will receive a special bonus — a will-preparation service at no additional cost.

Fatty acids play important roles in health and disease. Scientists used to think cells just kind of passively absorbed those fatty acids, but in the early 1990s, Nada A. Abumrad, Ph.D., helped change all that. She proposed that cells must use receptor proteins to import fatty acids. At the time, it was a very controversial […]