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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.

Washington University’s Jazz at Holmes will present internationally acclaimed musicians Marc Copland, Gary Peacock, and Bill Stewart in concert at 8 p.m. Feb. 13 in the E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall at the 560 Music Center in University City.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will launch its spring 2009 concert series, “Kemper Presents,” at 6 p.m. Feb. 27 with Theodore, a foursome that creates a rootsy, familiar yet completely fresh sound with instruments as diverse as the trombone, glockenspiel, accordion and lap steel guitar. Designed to highlight the talents and diversity of contemporary […]

Courtesy PhotoTwo powerhouses of American theater, The Guthrie Theater and The Acting Company, will join forces to present a pair of adventure classics at the Edison Theatre Feb. 13 and 14.

In January, 18 School of Medicine faculty were presented with Distinguished Faculty Awards, which recognize outstanding achievements in clinical care, community service, research and teaching.

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.