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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.

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., […]

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.

With the closing of Highway 40, University commuters might be finding that getting to and from campus every day has become a more time-consuming, aggravating task. In order to make commuting less stressful, WUSTL Parking & Transportation Services offers faculty, staff and students suggestions of ways to get to campus besides their own automobile.

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As the number of foreclosures on homes purchased with a subprime mortgage continues to grow, the chatter from Washington and big business is focused on a way to slow, or even reverse, the trend. However, bailing out the industry isn’t necessarily the way to go, according to a finance professor at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.

The following incidents were reported to University Police Jan. 24-30. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. Jan. 24 9:35 a.m. — A Teaching […]