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Photo by Robert BostonMedical students honored teachers for distinguished service at the annual teaching awards ceremony at the Eric P. Newman Education Center.

His experience with NASA spans three decades, starting in 1974 and continuing today with the highly successful Mars Exploration Rover mission.

The following incidents were reported to University Police Nov. 16-29. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. Nov. 17 2:14 p.m. — A staff […]

In 1989, Kim Donica took a social work position in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. As a small part of her job, Donica was asked if she would work with families whose babies had contracted HIV from their mothers. “When I had this opportunity, I knew working with these […]

The School of Medicine will receive $5.9 million over the course of five years to begin an ambitious and potentially decades-long search.

The Story Link program lets prisoners talk to their children via cassette tapes.Thousands of Missouri inmates have been given a chance to reconnect with their children thanks to a volunteer program led by WUSM’s Dana and Jane Abendschein. The Story Link program allows inmates to record messages and children’s stories onto a cassette, which is then mailed to their families. For many inmates, it’s the only form of communication they have with their children.

The Concert Choir of Washington University will perform a concert of “Works from the Renaissance to American Folksongs” at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, in Graham Chapel. John Stewart, director of vocal activities, directs the program.

Washington University’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will present its annual sing-along of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, in Graham Chapel. John Stewart, director of vocal activities, directs the program.

The Washington University Opera will present “Two Operatic Cinderellas,” featuring excerpts from Gioacchino Rossini’s “Cenerentola” and Jules Massenet’s “Cendrillo,” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 16 and 17, in Karl Umrath Lounge.

By peering into the minds of volunteers preparing to play a brief visual game, neuroscientists at the School of Medicine have found they can predict whether the volunteers will succeed or fail at the game.