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Leishmania major is a parasite that infects approximately 12 million people worldwide, causing significant death and disfigurement.

Researchers are recruiting people to participate in an international study designed to uncover the genetic basis of major depression.

The distinction is awarded each year to 100 individuals under age 35 whose innovative work in technology has a profound impact on the world.

Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? is a landmark survey documenting South Africa’s peaceful transition to democracy.

Courtesy imageAn exhibition of student work created last spring as part of architecture’s semester abroad program to Florence is on view in Givens Hall.

Photo by Mary ButkusThe Health and Wellness Fair featured tips and information on nutrition, sleep, fitness, stress management, personal safety and more.

It’s just after dawn on a Wednesday morning as breast reconstruction specialist Keith E. Brandt, M.D., and his surgical team of residents, fellows and nurses prepare a patient for reconstructive breast surgery. An iPod loaded with more than 500 classic rock songs plays lightly in the background as the team begins the procedure. Years ago […]

Courtesy photoWil HaygoodWil Haygood, one of the nation’s leading biographers of African American life, will read present a pair of events Nov. 9 and 10, as a part of The SmartSet Series: Where Great Writers Read, sponsored by Washington University’s Center for Humanities in Arts & Sciences.

PhillipsPoet Carl Phillips, professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected — for the second time in a relatively short literary career — as a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award in poetry. Phillips was nominated for his seventh collection of poetry, “The Rest of Love: Poems,” published in February by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The National Book Awards are considered one of the most prestigious prizes in American literature.

John StadlerMale characters played by women, female characters played by men, a dutiful matron who morphs into a vulnerable gay man, a patriarchal husband who becomes a mischievous five-year-old girl. In November, Washington University’s Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present an all-new production of Cloud Nine, the classic, gender-bending satire of colonial and sexual conquest by London playwright Caryl Churchill.