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Younan Xia, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering, was installed as the inaugural James M. McKelvey Professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science in a Sept. 2 ceremony in Uncas A. Whitaker Hall. The McKelvey professorship is named in honor of the school’s dean from 1964-1991 and is one of three professorships established in […]

The top-ranked men’s basketball team won the 25th Annual Lopata Classic with two victories last weekend at home. The Bears have now won 20 straight Lopata Classic games and 10 overall tournament titles. Five Bears scored in double figures to lead the team to an 85-57 victory over Hamilton College in the first game Dec. […]

Kelly Bishop, Ph.D., and Chad Larson, Ph.D.

Photo by Robert BostonSome families in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood will have a brighter holiday thanks to the generosity of School of Medicine employees.

As President-elect Barack Obama continues to fill key cabinet positions from the ranks of D.C.-based public policy think tanks, a new book by longtime policy adviser Murray Weidenbaum examines how the nation’s top think tanks came to play such critical roles in U.S. politics.

Construction Update is published periodically and provides information about the progress of major building and renovation projects. Information is provided to the Record by facilities management.

Photo by Mary ButkusJunior Mitchell Shanklin, freshman Brian Duddy and junior Matt Barker play Super Smash Brothers Brawl during a video game tournament as part of the grand opening of the Fun Room in the Danforth University Center Dec. 6.

Using what cognitive psychologists are discovering in the laboratory to improve learning in the classroom is the goal of a $6.47 million collaborative activity grant to Washington University from the James S. McDonnell Foundation.

This is the final issue of the Record this calendar year. We will resume publication Jan. 15, 2009. The Record staff wishes everyone a safe and happy holiday season.

Since its publication in 1960, Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” has become the best-selling novel of all time and is perhaps the most widely read book exploring race in the United States. In January, Edison Theatre will join forces with Metro Theater Company, St. Louis’ foremost professional troupe for young people, to stage an […]