Grants available to support Brookings, WUSTL collaborations
The Brookings Institution and Washington University’s Academic Venture Capital Fund is seeking proposals from fellows, faculty, staff, centers, institutes and programs at both institutions.
WUSTL women printmakers exhibit at the School of Law
Photo by Mary ButkusEight women printmakers, all faculty or alumni from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, installed a series of artworks in the School of Law’s Anheuser-Busch Hall.
Of note
Nathan A. Baker, Ph.D.,
Michael R. Brent, Ph.D.,
Philip Burkhardt and Brendan Wittstruck,
Robert Criss, Ph.D., and more…
Record to go all-electronic
This is the last issue of the Record simultaneously published in print and electronic versions. The Record will go entirely digital in January 2010 to improve timely communication to the University community and to reduce printing and distribution costs.
Flu queue
Photo by Kevin LowderLong lines snaked through the Mallinckrodt Center Dec. 7 as hundreds of students took advantage of free H1N1 flu shots.
Second-place finish for women’s soccer
A storybook women’s soccer season ended with a 1-0 loss to top-ranked Messiah College in the NCAA Division III championship game Dec. 5. The Bears ran into a juggernaut in Messiah College. The Falcons, who were making their sixth straight trip to the Final Four, outshot WUSTL 16-6 and had a 2-0 advantage in corner […]
Mozart’s, Rossini’s versions of Figaro presented by Washington University Opera
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was one of the great self-made men of 18th-century Europe. Trained as a watchmaker, he rose through the ranks of French nobility to become a successful inventor, businessman, publisher and diplomat, even supplying weapons and provisions to American revolutionaries. Yet Beaumarchais probably is best remembered for his semi-autobiographical Figaro plays, two […]
RCGA honors Wrighton with Right Arm of St. Louis Award
Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton received the Right Arm of St. Louis Award from the St. Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association (RCGA) Jan. 21 at the 173rd RCGA annual meeting and dinner at the Chase Park Plaza. A video honoring the WUSTL chancellor produced by the RCGA was recently released.
Surgery not linked to memory problems in older patients
New School of Medicine research did not find long-term cognitive declines attributable to surgery in a group of older patients.
Genetic variation does not alter asthma treatment response
Patients with different genetic variations respond well to combination asthma treatment, School of Medicine research shows.
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