Newsroom Stories

Fiction writer Kate Bernheimer will read from her work at 8 p.m. Feb. 26 in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst Lounge for the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences’ spring Reading Series. She is the author of a trilogy of novels: “The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold” (2001); “The Complete Tales of Merry Gold” (2006) […]

A set of 50 genes can be used to reliably identify the four known types of breast cancer, according to research conducted at the School of Medicine.

WUSTL will host a national meeting March 4-6 on behalf of the National Institutes of Health on research priorities in women’s health.

Patrick Geraghty, M.D., went to Germany in Janury to lend his expertise as a vascular surgeon working on soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Children’s Discovery Institute has awarded 15 new research grants totaling $4 million toward finding cures and treatments for devastating childhood diseases.

Children whose asthma improved while taking steroid drugs for several years did not see those improvements continue after stopping the drugs, new results from a comprehensive childhood asthma study show. The results come from the Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP) clinical trial, in which more than 1,000 children age 5-12 were treated for mild to moderate asthma over more than four years.

To commemorate the 277th anniversary of George Washington’s birth, Washington University in St. Louis scholars will examine the legend versus the real man, and consider whether the philosophical and moral ambiguities he wrestled with during his lifetime have modern connotations.

SussmanPrimates are social animals. But why did they become social and what are the causes for the differences in social structure among various primate species? Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, addressed those questions and more in his talk “A Comparative Overview of Primate Social Organization” during the 2009 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Feb. 15 in Chicago.

GoodenoughThe hot topics of global warming and environmental sustainability are concerns that fit neatly within the precepts of religious naturalism, according to Ursula Goodenough, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to being a renowned cell biologist, Goodenough is a religious naturalist and the author of The Sacred Depths of Nature, a bestselling book on religious naturalism that was published in 1998. Religious naturalism neither requires belief in God nor excludes such faith. Rather, the movement is based on what Goodenough describes as “an exploration of the religious potential of nature.”

BernheimerFiction writer Kate Bernheimer will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in Hurst Lounge, Room 201, Duncker Hall, on Washington University’s Danforth Campus.