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Researchers in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology are asking an old question in a new population: Can giving extra oxygen to a patient undergoing a Caesarean section (C-section) decrease the risk of serious postoperative infection? In past studies, colorectal surgery patients given supplemental oxygen had fewer infections after surgery, supporting the theory that increasing […]

The men’s tennis team captured its first NCAA Division III National Championship — the third for WUSTL in the 2007-08 school year.

Ian Weaver, a graduating master of fine arts candidate in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has won a $15,000 MFA Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation in New York. Weaver was one of 15 students nationwide to receive the award, and the first ever from Washington University. Though primarily a painter […]

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

The WUSTL Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) is asking for campus-wide help and donations for victims of a 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck China’s Sichuan Province May 12 and left more than 20,000 people dead and tens of thousands more injured or missing.

Maintaining bone density could be a key to decreasing the spread of cancer in women with locally advanced breast cancer, according to research at the School of Medicine. Bones are common sites for the spread, or metastasis, of breast cancer. Scientists here found that women treated for stage II/III breast cancer who also received a bone strengthening drug were less likely to have breast tumor cells growing in their bones after three months.

The massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province last week may have dealt a huge blow to China’s plans for a vast network of hydro-electric power dams, and the aftershock could mean more reliance on coal, more pollution and more competition for scarce global energy resources, suggests the author of a new book on the politics of China’s epic dam-building campaign.

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Ronald Leax, the Halsey Cooley Ives Professor of Art, has been named dean of art, according to Carmon Colangelo, dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Leax will lead the College of Art and the Graduate School of Art. The one-year appointment will begin July 1. Leax will succeed dean Jeff Pike, who is the Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr., Professor in Art. Pike has served as dean of art since 1999. He will return to full-time teaching following a sabbatical year.

Washington University’s 147th Commencement will be held at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 16, in Brookings Quadrangle. The university will bestow degrees on 2,655 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. The university also will bestow honorary degrees on six individuals during the ceremony, which is a little over two hours long.