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*Cloudless*The work of Susan Marshall, hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most significant choreographers working today,” combines explosive athleticism with subtle yet familiar movements drawn from daily life. This month her troupe, Susan Marshall & Company, will present Cloudless, an evening-length collection of solos, duets and small group pieces, as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series.

U.S. Air Force Major and NASA astronaut Robert L. Behnken, Ph.D., will make the first space flight of his career as Mission Specialist 1 aboard the spacecraft Endeavor, scheduled to launch to the International Space Station Tuesday, March 11. Behnken graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1992 with bachelor of science degrees in mechanical engineering and physics from the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

At its spring meeting, the Board of Trustees heard a report on the strategic plan proposed by Arts & Sciences presented by trustee Earle H. Harbison Jr., chairman of the Harbison Corporation and retired president of the Monsanto Corporation. The presentation is part of an overall Plan for Excellence, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.

Beginning March 16, a current Washington University identification card will be required of each person entering the John M. Olin Library or the adjoining Whispers Cafe after 9 p.m., University Libraries announced. Currently, card access to the library and the cafe begins at midnight. Shirley K. Baker, vice chancellor for information technology and dean of […]

“Sustainability,” “LEED-certified” and “green” are buzzwords seen and heard more and more often around campus. To help the WUSTL community better understand what those terms mean and how the University is incorporating the ideas they signify into practice, WUSTL is offering three sustainability lectures March 18 and 19.

Washington University earned an “A” in a recent Reader’s Digest report about the safety of college campuses in the United States. The University was ranked eighth out of 135 institutions surveyed. Reader’s Digest surveyed colleges and universities about their safety practices. Based on their responses, schools were assigned a grade of A, B or C. […]

Learning something once — like the fact that berg means mountain in German — and studying it over and over again may do little to help you remember it in the future. The key to future recall, suggests a new WUSTL study, is how often over time you actively practice retrieving that information from memory.

Photo by Mary ButkusJusten Yao, 14, puts on a table tennis exhibition during Eliot Society Family Night at the women’s basketball game Feb. 22.

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A better drug for osteoporosis wouldn’t just preserve patients’ old bone structure; it would help fortify their weakened bones with new bone material. Such a drug could be on the horizon because of research at the School of Medicine that has uncovered new information about how to amplify the bone formation process. In an upcoming […]