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A team of scientists led by Washington University has begun to unlock the genetic secrets of corn, a crop vital to U.S. agriculture.

Photo by Robert BostonState legislators get a tour of the Center for Clinical Imaging Research at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

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.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will host a daylong symposium on “Architecture, Art and the Experience of Blackness” Thursday, March 6, in Steinberg Auditorium. The symposium will bring together more than a dozen speakers whose creative and scholarly works intersect with issues of race and identity.

The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences has announced its Spring 2009 Faculty Fellows. The three recipients are: Guinn Batten, Ph.D., associate professor of English; Andrea Friedman, Ph.D., associate professor of history and Women & Gender Studies; and Jennifer Kapczynski, Ph.D., assistant professor of German, all in Arts & Sciences.

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.

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 study from Washington University, is how often over time you actively practice retrieving that information from memory.

Carlton Cuyler Hunt, M.D., who headed the Department of Physiology from 1967-1983, died Friday, Feb. 8, 2008. He was 89.

Burnell to speak on scientific discovery Radio astronomer and astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Ph.D., the first to discover pulsars, will describe her landmark work and current research 11 a.m. March 19 in Graham Chapel as part of the Assembly Series. Her talk, “In Pursuit of Pulsars,” is the annual Compton Science Lecture. Radio astronomy research […]

Photo by Mary ButkusMichael Peil, J.D., assistant dean for international programs and executive director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute, looks on as leaders from various international universities sign partnership documents officially launching the School of Law’s groundbreaking Transnational Law Program.