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The chimp genome’s remarkable closeness to the human genome will make it a powerful tool for comparative genetics. More medical news

Alan Glass loves being a University administrator, but his passion is helping students. “I’m incredibly happy when the exam room door closes and it’s just me and the student and I’m their physician,” said Glass, M.D., director of the Student Health and Counseling Service. Though Glass spends much of his time managing the 50 employees […]

Photo by Kevin LowderMore than 30 people volunteered as guides on the first days of classes to help new students find their way around campus.

He’s the author of the Academic Bill of Rights, a manifesto intended to protect academic freedom by removing partisan politics from the classroom.

Photo by Kevin LowderMany in the University community are pitching in to help bring relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

The award-winning Uhan Shii will also offer a public performance at the Saint Louis Art Museum auditorium at 7 p.m. Sept. 23.

Carl Phillips, professor of English and African & African American Studies, both in Arts & Sciences, has won two prestigious poetry awards — The Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry — for his recent collection The Rest of Love: Poems (2004).

Two exhibitions of Bill Kohn’s work are on view at the William & Florence Schmidt Art Center at Southwestern Illinois College in Belleville.

The following incidents were reported to University Police Aug. 31-Sept.6. 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. Sept. 1 1:13 a.m. — A person […]

College eating habits can pack on extra pounds.New work from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis confirms that most students gain weight in college. Reporting in the Journal of American College Health, the research team found that about 70 percent of students gained a significant amount of weight between the start of college and the end of sophomore year.