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A crater on the moon has been named after the late Larry Haskin, Ph.D., who spent much of his career as a researcher in the WUSTL Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences.

The William H. and Elizabeth Gray Danforth University Center has received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Multi-faceted entertainer Lela Lee will be the featured speaker for the Assembly Series at 4 p.m., Wednesday, February 11 in Graham Chapel.

Sophomore Teddy Mekonnen (right) speaks with Jennifer Ashbury of the pharmacy company Express Scripts during the Spring 2009 Job & Internship Career Fair in the Field House of the Athletic Complex Jan. 30.

Smith As the White House pleads for bipartisan support of a massive federal stimulus plan, congressional Democrats and Republicans are maneuvering, strategizing, nervously seeking partners in an awkward legislative first dance that may determine whether Barack Obama makes good on his promise to bring change to Washington, suggests Steven S. Smith, a congressional expert at Washington University in St. Louis.

Is it possible to tease apart a complex genetic trait to reveal the precise genetic variations that have combined to produce it? Yes, School of Medicine researchers report.

School of Medicine researchers report a type of imaging allowed them to estimate the chronic effects of inflammation of the optic nerve in MS patients.

A strict regimen of brushing the teeth of patients in the intensive-care unit on breathing machines reduced the rate of pneumonia, a new study finds.

A local program designed to increase awareness about sickle cell disease in the African-American faith community led to a huge increase in first-time blood donations.

Richard M. Torack, M.D., a pioneering researcher in dementia, died Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009. He was 81.