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Maki & Associates, TokyoSaligman Family Atrium, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual ArtsIn 1960 a young Japanese architecture professor named Fumihiko Maki completed his first-ever commission while teaching at Washington University in St. Louis. Four decades later, Maki is among the world’s premier architects, a Pritzker Prize-winner renowned for creating monumental spaces that fuse Eastern and Western sensibilities. Current projects include both the $330 million United Nations expansion in Manhattan and Tower 4 at the former World Trade Center site. Now Maki has returned to Washington University as architect of the new Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, a dramatic, light-filled structure that will showcase the university’s internationally renowned art collection.

Eric Hoffman and Tony Patterson*Softscape*Two recent architecture alumni from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts have been selected as finalists in a national competition sponsored by the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA). The competition, titled inside::out: Weaving the Arts Into the Urban Fabric, aims to unify the 3.6-acre BCA campus — which includes a wide variety of galleries, performance venues and artists studios — by transforming its central brick plaza into an architecturally distinctive public space.

Background information on the new Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

Computer screens are replacing X-rays and paper files.Surgeons and staff no longer wonder where’s the chart in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine. That’s because the division switched from using paper files to a fully electronic medical record system. Electronic records are thought to improve the quality of care, reduce errors and improve efficiency. The federal government has set a goal for widespread adoption of e-records in medical practices within the next 10 years.

The Alliance is a group that will develop an action plan to improve math, engineering, technology and science (METS) learning and student achievement in Missouri.

Photo by David KilperA material created by chemistry’s Karen Wooley might someday be used as a timed drug-delivery system.Karen Wooley says that the results of her research with the polymers — the promoted release, the anti-fouling application — are “strange, if not weird, but there is so much going on here, we want to explore it all.”

Thanks to five sports that finished in the top 10 nationally this year, the Bears reached the top 10 overall for the fourth straight season.

Potential employers, real estate agents, loan officers and service providers repeatedly made racist, snap judgments about callers with diverse dialects, says John Baugh, Ph.D.

Photo by Robert BostonMissouri Gov. Matt Blunt signed Senate Bill 567, which requires health insurers to cover primary health-care costs for patients involved in approved phase II clinical trials for cancer.

Using mathematical and computational sequence analysis, Michael Brent and his research group study the function and evolutionary dynamics of genomes.