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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 […]

Cervical cancers that take up a lot of blood sugar resist treatment more than those that are less glucose-hungry.

She earned bachelor’s, master’s and a law degrees here, and she also was an adjunct professor in the School of Law.

As part of a State Department program, the visitors made presentations to law school faculty and students on legal education and the legal profession in Nepal.

He’s been at WUSTL since 1968; national media often ask him to provide expert commentary regarding the use of rhetoric as a political or social tool.

Illustration of a lung volume reduction surgeryIn many cases of advanced emphysema, reducing the size of the lungs surgically has been shown to improve both survival and quality of life. But some emphysema patients can’t tolerate this bilateral operation. Now a study conducted by researchers at the School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania Health System has shown that unilateral, or one-sided, lung volume reduction surgery has significant benefits, offering help to those who are not candidates for the bilateral surgery.

WHAT: The 16th annual powwow, part of American Indian Awareness Week at Washington University. WHEN: Saturday, April 8 from noon to 10 p.m. Grand entries of dancers will be showcased at 1 and 7 p.m. Arts & crafts booths will open at 10 a.m. WHERE: Washington University’s Athletic Center, near the intersection of Forsyth Boulevard and Olympian Way.