Newsroom Stories

Registration continues for Dance Marathon 2007, a student-run effort to raise funds for and promote awareness of the Children’s Miracle Network of Greater St. Louis.

School of Medicine researchers will head a national study of addiction, looking both at genetic and environmental factors that contribute to the problem.

Local researchers have developed an improved dosing formula for the widely prescribed anticoagulant warfarin (Coumadin) that considers variations in two key genes.

The School of Medicine has joined the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium (MMRC) to speed the development of new myeloma therapies.

Two recently discovered control networks that govern voluntary brain activity in adults start life as a single network in children.

The proliferation of new and digital media — from computers and Web sites to television screens, cell phones and other handheld devices — has profoundly impacted the ways we see and interact with the world around us. It also has provided tremendous new possibilities for the creation and experience of art. This fall, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will launch several new outreach programs designed to highlight the aesthetics and expanding role of new media and digital art.

Senior Gabe Murphy ran for a career-high 128 yards and sophomore Tim Machan tied a school record with three interceptions as the Bears posted a 34-3 win Sept. 8 at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. The Bears defense, which held Lake Forest to 17 yards rushing a week ago, limited Westminster’s rushing attack to 41 yards on 30 carries in the win.

Just as rising gasoline prices are forcing many Americans to tighten their financial belts, new research suggests higher fuel costs may come with a related silver lining — trimmer waistlines. “An additional $1 in real gasoline prices would reduce obesity in the U.S. by 15 percent after three years,” said Charles Courtemanche, an economics doctoral student in Arts & Sciences.

As a distinguished theoretical physicist and accomplished writer, Alan Lightman has successfully bridged the gap between science and the humanities. At 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, in Graham Chapel, Lightman will provide an understanding of one of the greatest triumphs of the human imagination with the Department of English Hurst Visiting Professorship Lecture, “Einstein and Relativity.”

Sexton observes a flooded Marais Temps Clair.In science, it’s best to be good, but sometimes it’s better to be lucky. Ecologist Owen Sexton, professor emeritus of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, had just completed a census of snakes at a conservation preserve northwest of St. Louis, when the great flood of 1993 deluged the area, putting the preserve at least 15 feet under water. The flood provided Sexton with a rare opportunity: his collected data and the flood would combine to make “the perfect study” of how an area rebounds from natural disaster.