Newsroom Stories

As the November 2008 presidential and congressional elections loom, the annual MLA Saturday Seminar series, sponsored by the Master of Liberal Arts program and University College, will fittingly focus on elections and politics. “The topic is obvious in this year,” said Robert E. Wiltenburg, Ph.D., dean of University College, “but we thought that people would […]

The Missouri Life Sciences Research Board has given the University’s International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES) nearly $3 million for biofuels research.

Looking back over the recent past, the advances in biomedicine seem astonishing. The birth of the first “test tube baby” 30 years ago, for example, was viewed as exotic and, to some, scary. Now, in vitro fertilization is commonplace. And yet, justifiable ethical concerns surround the human outcomes of these medical breakthroughs. Leon Kass, M.D., […]

The genetics of aging and the effects of calorie restriction on aging and longevity will be studied at the School of Medicine with funding from the Longer Life Foundation.

Jane Maienschein, Ph.D., the Regents’ Professor and Chair of the Program for Science and Society at Arizona State University, will speak on “From Transplantation to Translation: Why History Matters in Stem Cell Research” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, in Rebstock Hall, Room 322. Maienschein is the first of six speakers appearing this spring as […]

Black Anthology, a student-run performance art show that celebrates black culture, will present “Syncopated: Can You Keep the Beat?” at 7 p.m. Feb. 1-2 in Edison Theatre. The event opens Black History Month. Black Anthology’s mission is to give students a unique voice to address pressing issues that are at once both realistic and hopeful. […]

Photo by Mary ButkusRichard J. Goldstone (left), former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and former justice of the South African Constitutional Court, receives the Harris Institute’s 2008 World Peace Through Law Award from Whitney R. Harris Jan. 24 at the Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis.

Undergraduate tuition at Washington University in St. Louis will be $36,200 for the 2008-09 academic year — a $1,700 (4.9 percent) increase over the 2007-08 current academic tuition of $34,500. The required student activity fee will total $362, and the student health fee will be $686. The announcement was made by Barbara A. Feiner, vice chancellor for finance.

Increasing levels of a protein that helps the brain use cholesterol may slow the development of Alzheimer’s disease changes in the brain, according to researchers studying a mouse model of the disease at the School of Medicine.

John Lasala and Ralph Damiano Jr. work together on the first surgery in the PARTNER trial. A 78-year-old St. Louis woman was the first patient in this region to receive an experimental device to replace her defective aortic valve without opening the chest wall or using a heart-lung machine. This procedure was performed by Washington University heart specialists at Barnes-Jewish Hospital on Jan. 15.