Newsroom Stories

Since the early 20th century, avant-garde writers, artists and composers have championed the creative possibilities of the arbitrary and the accidental. Next week, the Department of Music and the Dance Program in the Performing Arts Department (PAD), both in Arts & Sciences, and the Mil-dred Lane Kemper Art Museum will host a concert exploring the […]

The University’s Bear Cub Fund is soliciting grant applications from University researchers who want to move inventions from their laboratories toward commercialization. The fund supports innovative translational research not normally backed by federal grants. Any WUSTL faculty member, postdoctoral fellow, graduate student or employee may apply.

The age at which a person takes a first drink may influence genes linked to alcoholism, making the youngest drinkers the most susceptible to severe problems.

School of Medicine researchers have launched an online registry that aims to help children with a severe type of epilepsy that strikes in infancy.

Tumor growth can start from stem cells in the gut, say School of Medicine researchers studying fruit flies.

A recently identified gene allows immune cells to start the self-destructive processes thought to underlie multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.

David J. Murray, M.D., has been appointed as chief of the Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology.

Nominations of School of Medicine faculty for the 2009 Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Awards in Medical Student Education are due Oct. 12.

Photo by Robert BostonCentral Visual and Performing Arts High School students participated in an exercise in natural selection during a visit to the medical school Sept. 14.

The acclaimed indie troubadours GrooveLily return to St. Louis for a pair of performances of “Sleeping Beauty Wakes” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 2 and 3, as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS Series.