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Three Hilltop Campus Arts & Sciences faculty — a biologist, geologist and mathematician — are participants in a new series, “Science on Tap.”

Bernstein”Imagine an electrical appliance industry with plugs of 9,000 different shape and sizes that need one of 9,000 matching sockets to work. Preposterous as that is, that’s the “design” of American health insurance – tens of thousands of medical care providers must plug their billions of billings into thousands of differing insurance policies,” says Merton C. Bernstein, a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Coles Professor of Law Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis. “This wasteful design has its silver lining, though. Eliminating administrative costs through universal Medicare coverage, or Medicare-for-All, would save as much as $280 to $300 billion a year, enough to pay for covering the 45 million uninsured. ”

Eleven semi-finalists remain in the field for the 2005 Olin Cup Entrepreneur Competition — including four student-owned ventures. Judges will select the finalists on Thursday, Oct. 6 at 5 p.m. at a networking event which is open to the public. The event will be in Simon Hall’s May Auditorium on Washington University’s campus. Kevin McGowan, principal and co-founder of McGowan Walsh Historic Renovators, is the featured speaker.

Nanoparticles attached to fibers in a blood clotNano-sized particles developed at the School of Medicine offer hope of replacing numerous medical tests, scans, or surgeries with a simple injection. The tiny spheres can travel through the bloodstream deep into the body to locate and highlight tumors undetectable by typical methods. While at the tumor site, the nanoparticles can deliver therapeutic agents to destroy the tumor.

While Elzbieta Sklodowska’s research and teaching interests focus on the Spanish language and the history and culture of Cuba and the Caribbean, her role as chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in Arts & Sciences takes on a much broader appeal. “Working at the intersection of the three languages housed in one […]

Forty years ago, fate sprung an ambush on Michael J. Welch. Welch, born and raised in the English city of Stoke-on-Trent, had just earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of London and was on his way to Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States for a postdoctoral appointment. He had filled out all […]

“New Orleans is such an important home for the arts in the United States,” said PAD Chair Henry I. Schvey.

Officially known as Symphony No. 8 in B Minor and written in 1822, the piece is the most mysterious and the most forward-looking of his works.

Graduate students, faculty and staff are invited to the Lopata Courtyard between Goldfarb and Brown halls today for “Sounds of the South,” a hurricane-relief benefit concert featuring the Zydeco Crawdaddys. The event, hosted by the George Warren Brown School of Social Work student body, will kick off with a happy hour at 6 p.m. The […]

His smash adaptation of Mel Brooks’ The Producers won 12 Tony Awards, including “Best Musical”; he’ll speak on “Why We Need Broadway.”