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Corn genome to be sequenced by WUSTL center

The maize genome’s 2.5 billion base pairs in 10 chromosomes make it nearly as long as the human’s, which has 2.9 billion base pairs in 23 chromosomes. More medical news

Meeting with the neighbors

Photo by Mary ButkusChancellor Mark S. Wrighton chats with some of those attending the “Report to the Neighbors Meeting” Nov. 1 in Whitaker Hall.

Scholarships help address community issues

Photo by Kevin LowderThe Stern Summer Scholarship and the Kaldi’s St. Louis Service Scholarship enable students to pursue community projects in the St. Louis region.

‘Easy to remember, hard to forget’

For Fatemeh Keshavarz, Ph.D., associate professor of Persian and of comparative literature, both in Arts & Sciences, poetry is much more than an academic discipline. It is a profoundly personal experience that requires both the poet and the reader to be fully involved in its consummation. “Poetry is the magic we perform with language,” she […]

Bender notable

Carl M. Bender, Ph.D., professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, delivered a talk, titled “Ghost Busting: Making Sense of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians,” as a principal invited speaker at four international conferences this summer. The first conference was the 10th Claude Itzykson Meeting on “Quantum Field Theory Then and Now,” held in June at the Service […]
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