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Photo by Joe AngelesAn environmentally friendly picnic table in the Elizabeth Gray Danforth Butterfly Garden was recently dedicated to honor the University’s former first lady.

Vicki L. Friedman of the School of Medicine’s MedPIC department helps facilitate the “Arts as Healing” art therapy program for Siteman Cancer Center patients and their families.

Funding will be made available over two years for single or multiyear projects through a grant program to be administered & coordinated by the CRIE.

There is good news for women who may not want to take a breast cancer drug because of the risks of developing more serious diseases.

Tennis teams head to Division III tournament The men’s and women’s tennis teams are headed to the NCAA Division III Tournament for the seventh consecutive season. The No. 8 men and No. 19 women will travel to Greencastle, Ind., for the NCAA Central Regional May 5-7. The men (18-2) will take on No. 13 Kalamazoo […]

Researchers at the School of Medicine are the first to identify a mutated gene that gives insight into kidney failure in human infants. More medical news

A new national guideline on how hearing aids should be fit for adults will soon be launched thanks to a School of Medicine professor.

If some patients with heart disease don’t take their doctor’s advice to quit smoking, they are probably going to get “shocking” reminders. A study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that heart patients who had implanted defibrillators and also smoked were seven times more likely to have the devices jolt their hearts back into normal rhythm than nonsmokers with the devices.

“U.S.-China Business Relations” is the focus of a three-day academic symposium that kicks off with a public conference from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. May 11 in Room 311, Anheuser-Busch Hall. U.S.-China commercial relations and intellectual property rights are among topics to be covered.

Washington University in St. Louis will award honorary degrees to five prominent people, including a 2004 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and a pioneering scholar of African and African-American literature, during the university’s 145th Commencement ceremony May 19. During the ceremony, which begins at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle, the university will also bestow academic degrees on more than 2,300 students.