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Three doctoral students — Keona Ervin from the Department of History in Arts & Sciences, Henrika McCoy from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work and Tracy Nicholson from the Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis program in the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences — were inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at the annual Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education March 29 at Yale University.

The Community Service Office of the Gephardt Institute for Public Service has announced five winners of three Social Change Grants, awarded annually to students pursuing innovative ideas that serve the common good in the spirit of social entrepreneurship. The three grants have a total value of $18,000.

A brain network linked to introspective tasks — such as forming a self-image or understanding the motivations of others — is less intricate and less well connected in children, School of Medicine scientists have learned. They also showed that the network establishes firmer connections between various brain regions as an individual matures. The scientists are […]

Dividing items into small portions helps control consumption. Whether it’s food or money, people tend to go through things more slowly when the lump sum is partitioned into small portions, according to new research from a WUSTL marketing professor.

David Kilper/WUSTL PhotoMuthanna Al-Dahhan (left) and graduate student Rajneesh Varma are researching effective ways to take agricultural waste and make biofuel out of it.Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis, using an impressive array of imaging and tracking technologies, have determined the importance of mixing in anaerobic digesters for bioenergy production and animal and farm wastes treatment. They are studying ways to take “the smell of money,” as farmers long have termed manure’s odor, and produce biogas from it.

The George Warren Brown School of Social Work will honor five distinguished individuals for outstanding school service during its annual Alumni Awards Dinner April 30 at the Coronado Ballroom. The Distinguished Alumni Award recipients are Ruth R. Ehresman, Ronda S. Connaway, D.S.W., and Michael E. Willis. Curtis McMillen, Ph.D., professor of social work and associate director of the Center for Mental Health Services Research, will receive the Distinguished Faculty Award. The Dean’s Medal recipient is B. A. Bridgewater, Jr., retired chairman and chief executive officer at Brown Shoe Company.

If, like millions of people, you scratch your head in amazement when an Eliot Spitzer-type scandal becomes public, perhaps Helen Fisher, Ph.D., can enlighten you. The Rutgers University anthropologist will give the Assembly Series/Women’s Society of Washington University talk at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 16, in Graham Chapel. Her address, “The Drive to Love: The Biology, Evolution and Future of Romantic Love,” is free and open to the public. This is the final lecture of the 2007-08 Assembly Series.

The WUSTL flag is at half-staff in honor of Eric Van Cleve, a member of this year’s graduating MFA class, who died in his sleep on Thursday night at his parents’ home in Dublin, Ohio.

Co-author of Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors, Alvin Poussaint, will present the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial lecture for the Assembly Series. The talk will be held at 4 p.m., on Tuesday, April 15 in the Laboratory Sciences Auditorium. Poussaint co-wrote Come on People with activist comedian Bill Cosby […]

One thousand years ago this year, a Japanese court lady put the finishing touches on what would become the world’s oldest novel. Spanning 75 years, more than 350 characters and brimming with romantic poems, “The Tale of Genji” tells the story of an emperor’s son, his quest for love and the many women he meets […]