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A gift of $1.2 million has been augmented with $300,000 from the University’s Sesquicentennial Endowed Professorship Challenge.

Photo by Joe AngelesRichard A. Gephardt addresses the 12,000 people — including some 2,500 new graduates — gathered in Brookings Quadrangle May 20 for Commencement.”It’s no accident that every religion in our world revolves, at least in part, around some vision of the Golden Rule,” he said.

Starting in the fall, the new line will take some of the stops currently served by the Green Line, dramatically decreasing travel time.

Women’s 4×400 relay takes second at NCAAs The women’s 4×400 meter relay team notched a second-place finish for the second straight NCAA meet to conclude the final day of the 2005 Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships May 28. Fresh off a ninth-place finish in the NCAA Indoor Championships, the women’s track and field […]

Photo by Mary ButkusDan Kaplan gets nearly a foot of his hair cut off by Josh Nidrols during the recent Locks of Love charity event.

Areas activated by tasks designed to stimulate voluntary attentionThe first direct analysis of the interactions between two brain networks that govern visual attention may help researchers at the School of Medicine develop treatments for stroke patients with a condition known as spatial neglect. These patients have difficulty focusing on or paying attention to stimuli in the left half of their visual field.

Lung tumors from mutant mice show an abundance of abnormal, undifferentiated cells.Often mice are used to investigate cancer because their accelerated life spans allow discoveries to be made in a few months. But most strains of mice stay relatively free of lung tumors, even when exposed to heavy tobacco smoke, so there has been a shortage of models suitable for studying tobacco smoke-induced lung cancer. Now, cancer researchers at the School of Medicine have developed a strain of mice that readily develops lung tumors that have the same genetic mutations found in human lung tumors.

In these brain sections of neonatal mice exposed to ethanol, mice deficient in certain enzymes (right) exhibit much more neurodegeneration as indicated by the black material in the dying neurons.Can you blame your genes if you can’t handle your liquor? A new study conducted at the School of Medicine may pave the way to finding out. Researchers found that the brain’s response to alcohol is partially under the influence of two genes. The genes, studied in both adult and newborn mice, were found to affect sensitivity to alcohol intoxication, interest in alcohol consumption and risk of developmental brain damage from alcohol.

FriedmanStudent Commencement speaker Jordan Friedman, president of the senior class, addressed his his fellow students during Commencment and spoke about how far they have come in the last four years and how much more they have to accomplish. Following are Friedman’s prepared remarks.

The following is a transcript of Richard A. Gephardt’s Commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis on May 20, 2005. He delivered the address to an audience of more than 12,000, including some 2,500 graduates, in Brookings Quadrangle.