Newsroom Stories

Photo by Joe AngelesJudy Musick (left), administrative manager in the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences, and Judith Tigah, a WUSTL sophomore, examine items donated by the campus community for care packages that will go to U.S. troops serving in Iraq.

The annual George Washington Week, sponsored by the sophomore honorary Lock & Chain, will bring back an old tradition – horse and buggy rides around the Danforth Campus. The week, Feb. 18-23, also will include birthday cake, appearances by “George” himself, cherry pie and a benefit party.

Photo by David KilperThis month, the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present a new production of the prototypical “situation comedy” titled “She Stops to Conquer” in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre. Performances begin at 8 p.m. Feb. 22 and 23 and at 2 p.m. Feb. 24. Performances continue the following weekend at 8 p.m., Feb. 29 and March 1 and at 2 p.m. March 2.

If politics were like high school, Republicans would be the football stars and Democrats would be chess club captains. Those stereotypes are the easiest way to summarize part of the conclusions from a study by Michael Lewis, Ph.D., assistant professor of marketing at the Olin Business School. By approaching political campaigns from a marketing perspective, Lewis was able to determine the effectiveness of branding and advertising.

Researchers at WUSTL and Arizona State University have sequenced the genome of a rare bacterium that harvests light energy by making an even rarer form of chlorophyll, chlorophyll d. Chlorophyll d absorbs “red edge,” near infrared, long wave length light that is invisible to the naked eye. In so doing, the cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina competes with virtually no other plant or bacterium in the world for sunlight.

Jarvis A. Thurston, Ph.D., professor emeritus of English and former chair of Washington University’s Department of English in Arts & Sciences, died Feb. 4 of heart disease at his home in University City. He was 93.

Will brain-powered robots one day restore mobility to children with cerebral palsy? Do circadian rhythms impact the outcome of cancer therapy? Can the root cause of pediatric heart disease be explained by a fruit fly? Thought-provoking and intriguing questions like these will chart the course for eight new research initiatives funded by the Children’s Discovery […]

Courtesy photo*Knots*As singles, we spend much of our lives looking for the perfect partner with whom to “tie the knot.” Once we’ve found them, we spend the rest of our lives looking to repair the frayed ends. Such is the thesis behind Knots, an evening-length concert by CoisCéim, one of Ireland’s leading contemporary dance companies, which will make its St. Louis debut as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series.

Therapists and eating disorders specialists at the School of Medicine are joining investigators at a handful of sites around North America to evaluate anorexia nervosa treatments. Only 25 percent of anorexia patients recover completely, and the goal of this study is to improve those odds.

Debra Hillabrand as Lizzie Borden.”Lizzie Borden took an ax/ And gave her mother 40 whacks. / When she saw what she had done / She gave her father 41.” So goes the well-known nursery rhyme. This month, the Washington University Opera, led by director Jolly Stewart, will explore the characters and conflicts that may (or may not) have caused Borden to snap with a new production of Jack Beeson’s acclaimed operatic adaptation, Lizzie Borden.