Newsroom Stories

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Poet Susan Wheeler will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, for The Writing Program Reading Series. Wheeler is the author of four acclaimed collections: Bag ‘o’ Diamonds (1993), Smokes (1998), Source Codes (2001) and Ledger (2005). Her work has appeared in appeared in eight editions of Best American Poetry.

Women’s cross country finishes fourth at the NCAA tournament, backed by Beth Herndon’s fifth-place finish in her final WUSTL meet.

[Grid Matrix], on view through Dec. 31 in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum’s Special Exhibitions Gallery, investigates both ruptures and continuities between the grid and the matrix, exploring how these two distinct yet related modes of visual organization have influenced our understanding of aesthetics, art and media since the early 20th century.

Photo by Mary ButkusMore than 150 people attended a Thanksgiving dinner at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

The Genome Sequencing Center has been awarded a $156 million, four-year grant to use DNA sequencing to unlock the secrets of human diseases. The grant is among the largest awarded to the University and one of only three given by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to U.S. sequencing centers.

A 1993 graduate, Wild says he is “thrilled” about the new opportunity to work with Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, effective Jan. 1.

By counting how many of seven easy-to-obtain health factors an elderly heart-failure patient has, physicians can estimate the patient’s risk of dying.

Active in health policy and education, Michael M. Karl, M.D., professor of clinical medicine, embodied “the finest ideals of medicine.”

Steven N. Blair, an expert in the associations between lifestyle and health, is foundation’s first visiting scholar.