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St. Louis Children’s Hospital Child Development Centers have immediate openings for children age two years and older of Washington University Danforth Campus and School of Medicine employees.

A design proposal by 10 architecture students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts has won the 2008 JP Morgan Chase Community Development Competition. Over the past several months, a class — led by Derek Hoeferlin, lecturer in architecture — has partnered with the Good Work Network, a nonprofit business incubator in […]

The Gateway Festival Orchestra begins its 45th season of free Sunday-evening performances July 6 with a program of American music designed to celebrate the Independence Day weekend. Subsequent concerts, which are free and open to the public, will be held July 13, 20 and 27. All begin at 7:30 p.m., and all, with the exception […]

Childhood lead poisoning has been a sizable problem in the city of St. Louis for many years due to deteriorating lead paint in older homes and rental units. In 2000, 31 percent of children tested in the city of St. Louis were poisoned, according to Daniel Berg, M.D., assistant professor of medicine. The situation has […]

Photo by Joe AngelesLuenemann’s energy and passion for volleyball — and WUSTL — pays off

Photo by Joe AngelesYoung-Shin Jun, Ph.D., assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, is presented the Oak Ridge Associated Universities 2008 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Achievement Award in Engineering or Applied Science by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.

Girls and young women who exercise regularly between the ages of 12-35 have a substantially lower risk of breast cancer before menopause compared with less active women, new research from the School of Medicine shows. The study of nearly 65,000 women found that those who were physically active had a 23 percent lower risk of breast cancer before menopause.

Courtesy ImageThe Sheldon Art Galleries at 3648 Washington Blvd. currently is hosting an exhibition of recent projects by Jen Maigret and Don Koster, both Cynthia Weese Teaching Fellows in the Sam Fox School’s Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design.

John M. Doris, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy in Arts & Sciences, has been named a fellow of the National Humanities Center for the 2008-09 academic year. Doris is one of 42 scholars from 32 U.S. institutions and seven foreign countries who are conducting leading research in the humanities. He will participate in the center’s […]

Changing the sugars attached to a hormone produced in the pituitary gland increased fertility levels in mice nearly 50 percent, School of Medicine research has found. The change appears to alter a reproductive thermostat, unveiling part of an intricate regulatory system that may eventually be used to enhance human fertility.