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University researchers have used a statistical analysis to generate new risk estimates for respiratory distress syndrome.

The event will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines, ranging from literature to music, theater, history and anthropology.

The six-hour meeting included reports from the deans of all eight schools and the dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

The award funds the “Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry” program and is an extension of a five-year grant made in 1999.

Photo by Mary ButkusWilliam P. Bottom was installed March 9 as the first Joyce and Howard Wood Distinguished Professor in Business.

A lost gem in the world of opera, Lee Hoiby’s adaptation of the Ivan Turgenev play will be presented at 8 p.m. March 18-19.

Women’s season ends with loss to Millikin The No. 7 women’s basketball team fell to No. 6 Millikin University, 67-58, in the second round of the NCAA Division III Tournament March 5 to end its season at 22-5. The Bears jumped out to an 18-7 advantage by the 12:04 mark of the first half, behind […]

Photo by David KilperErik Herzog and graduate student Sara Aton examine brain activity data on the computer in Herzog’s Monsanto Hall lab.Erik Herzog has discovered that “VIP” is needed by the brain’s biological clock to coordinate daily rhythms in behavior and physiology.

Eric WoolseyInto the WoodsWhat happens after “happily ever after”? Find out when the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences presents the Into The Woods — Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical amalgam of fairy tale favorites — as its spring Mainstage production April 1-3 and 8-10.

Jill KrementzJames LapineVeteran Broadway writer, librettist and director James Lapine will introduce Washington University’s production of Into the Woods, his 1987 collaboration with Stephen Sondheim, with a talk at 7 p.m. Friday, April 1.