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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

He is the author of Mysterious Skin, a novel that “will haunt and enrage you”; it was recently adapted to film by director Gregg Araki.

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

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.

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 […]

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 […]

Researchers reported on a study of 33 professional baseball pitchers in the October issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Beginning this fall, some Assembly Series lectures are available online. Class scheduling conflicts have become an increasing problem for many undergraduates who want to attend the Wednesday morning lectures. The Web streaming will enable them to access a lecture whenever they wish.

Courtesy photoCarmon ColangeloCarmon Colangelo, director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, Athens, has been named the first dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced today. Formation of the Sam Fox School comes amidst a nearly $60 million campaign to improve campus arts facilities. Colangelo’s appointment takes effect July 1, 2006.

Researchers at the Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) at the School of Medicine will lead the sequencing of the genome of maize, more popularly known to consumers as corn. The National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy allocated a total of $32 million for sequencing maize. The GSC maize genome project will receive $29.5 million of that funding.