Newsroom Stories

Photo by Ray MarklinStudents learn ballroom dancing in preparation for the annual Med Ball, held March 14 at the Hyatt Regency at the Riverfront.

Prostate cancer screening tests don’t appear to reduce deaths from the disease among those with a limited life expectancy, a new study shows.

Photo by Robert BostonAt Match Day March 19, 111 School of Medicine students learned where they will do their residencies, including Timothy and Molly Tran, who will both be at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

The dance sensation Diavolo return to St. Louis and perform two shows for the Edison Theatre OVATIONS Series, as well as a special matinee for the ovations for young people series.

“Leningrad,” a seminal performance in post-Stalin Soviet Union, will be replicated Monday, March 30, by the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Community Partnership Program.

Photo by Mary ButkusFashion is fun, challenging, inspiring and everywhere. It is also hard work. On Sunday, March 29, 11 seniors and seven juniors from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts — home to the nation’s oldest four-year fashion design program — will present the fruit of their labors in the school’s 80th Annual Fashion Design Show Sunday.

Detectives on television shows often spray crime scenes with a compound called luminol to make blood glow. Researchers at the School of Medicine have applied the same compound to much smaller crime scenes: sites where the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues.

Photo by Joe AngelesThe men’s basketball team celebrates its second straight NCAA Division III title after defeating Richard Stockton College, 61-52, March 21. To view a slideshow of the championship, visit http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/13781.html.

Photo by David KilperHimadri Pakrasi, Ph.D. (second from right), the George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology and director of the International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES), makes opening remarks at the second annual I-CARES open house Feb. 27 at Wilson Hall. To view a slideshow of the event, visit http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/13782.html.

The Center for Research on Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Washington University School of Law will host a conference on “The Economics and Law of Innovation” on April 2-3 in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The conference will begin at 8:30 a.m. each day, with the keynote presentation at 12:20 p.m. on Thursday. The goal of the conference is to stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue and scholarship on innovation. As part of the conference, leading scholars in economics and the law will examine and discuss the provocative book, Against Intellectual Monopoly, by Michele Boldrin, Ph.D., the Joseph Gibson Hoyt Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences and chair of the economics department, and David Levine, Ph.D., the John H. Biggs Distinguished Professor of Economics in Arts & Sciences.