Newsroom Stories

Nationally recognized StoryCorps will visit the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine April 17-21 as part of a collaborative project to better understand how parents with cancer discuss the diagnosis with their children. This visit is the first time that StoryCorps, the largest oral history project of its kind, has partnered to collect the stories of cancer survivors on a single topic.

Janine Benyus, one of the pre-eminent practitioners of biomimicry, will speak for the Assembly Series at 5:30 p.m. March 19 in Graham Chapel.

A March 30th symposium will commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth by bringing together four leading geneticists whose research focuses on defining the DNA changes that distinguish humans from our closest evolutionary relatives, the non-human primates.

Stalin’s death in 1953 marked the beginning of a cultural and political thaw that gave way to greater economic, educational and artistic freedoms in Soviet society. In Leningrad, a seminal performance in 1961 by two towering figures of the day—composer Andrey Volkonsky (1933-2008) and pianist Maria Yudina (1899-1970)— and an attendant program of music previously censored by Soviet rule, characterized the resulting new forms of musical expression. That concert will be replicated Monday, March 30, by the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Community Partnership Program.

I. Jerome Flance, M.D., emeritus professor of clinical medicine, has received the Ralph O. Claypoole Sr. Memorial Award from the American College of Physicians. The award recognizes an outstanding practitioner of internal medicine who has devoted his or her career to the care of patients. The recipient is a clinician highly respected by colleagues for […]

WUSTL physics professors will explore the genius of Galileo during the Saturday Science seminar series, sponsored by the De-partment of Physics and Uni-versity College in Arts & Sciences. Born in 1564, Galileo Galilei was the first to understand the role of controlled experiments in science. His methods of reasoning represent a sharp break from those […]

Photo by Whitney CurtisCheryl Waites (left) and Rhonda Garver admire the paintings during the annual Washington University Nursery School gallery night fundraiser March 7 at the Shearburn William Gallery in St. Louis. Each nursery school child created an original acrylic “masterpiece” on canvas for the event.

The following incidents were reported to University Police March 4-17. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. March 6 11:15 a.m. — A student […]

Paul Harvey, whose news reports and human-interest stories captivated American listeners for decades, died Feb. 28, 2009, at the Mayo Clinic Hospital near his winter home in Arizona. He was 90.

Igor Efimov, Ph.D., was installed as the Lucy and Stanley Lopata Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science.