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Were dinosaurs “warm-blooded” like present-day mammals and birds, or “cold-blooded” like present day lizards? The implications of this simple-sounding question go beyond deciding whether or not you’d snuggle up to a dinosaur on a cold winter’s evening. In a study published this week in the journal PLoS ONE, a team of researchers, including Herman Pontzer, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has found strong evidence that many dinosaur species were probably warm-blooded.

Photo by Joe AngelesSteven F. Leer (left), president and CEO of Arch Coal, and Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton listen as Maxine L. Savitz, Ph.D., vice president of the National Academy of Engineering and a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, answers a question from the audience at America’s Energy Future, a symposium to discuss the National Research Council’s roadmap for the country’s energy future.

The WUSTL Police Department will collect winter coats for disadvantaged St. Louisans to assist the Kurt Warner First Things First Foundation with its annual Warners’ Warm-up coat drive.

Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist and literary critic Louis Menand will present the keynote address for “Celebrating Our Books, Recognizing Our Authors,” the University’s eighth annual faculty book colloquium, at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in Graham Chapel.

More than 550 WUSTL undergraduate students will participate in a pilot program beginning in January 2010 to test the University’s new student e-mail and online service, Microsoft Live@EDU, said Andrew Ortstadt, associate vice chancellor for information services and technology. The University selected Live@EDU to provide e-mail, calendar and Web space to a pilot group of […]

Washington University has been awarded nearly $80 million in funding from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

School of Medicine scientists found that visuospatial skills begin to deteriorate up to three years prior to diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.

Holidays and tables full of delicious food usually go hand-in-hand, but for nearly half of the children in the United States, this is not guaranteed, says Mark R. Rank, Ph.D., poverty expert at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

Photo by Robert BostonLarry J. Shapiro, M.D., executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, gives the annual Dean’s Update to the School of Medicine.

Junior running back Jim O’Brien ran for a career-high 163 yards and three touchdowns as the football team rallied for a 44-37 victory over the University of Chicago Nov. 7. With the victory, the Bears regained possession of the Founders Cup, which commemorates the first football game played between the two University Athletic Association (UAA) […]