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David Piwnica-Worms, professor of molecular biology and pharmacology and of radiology, calls a study’s findings a “two-edged sword.”

The softball team posted five wins to improve to 21-0. Washington U. swept a doubleheader with the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point March 24 at WUSTL Field, then won three games in the 4th Annual Lee’s Sports Midwest Region Invitational. Freshman Laurel Sagartz and sophomore Ashley Johnson combined to throw the first no-hitter in school history […]

He had been a planned giving officer in Special Development Programs; he succeeds Paul Schoon, who retired.

Myron S. Scholes, co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, will speak on “Financial Innovation in a Chaotic Environment” at 11:30 a.m. April 8 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. Scholes, the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance Emeritus at Stanford University, authored the “Black-Scholes Options Pricing Model,” which […]

The new program will be open to all applicants; the changes should not affect current Ervin Scholarships.

Courtesy photoDonald Antrim will read from his work April 16. Fiction writer Donald Antrim will read from his work at 4 p.m. Friday, April 16, for The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University.

Qiu XiaolongSt. Louis-based poet, critic and crime novelist Qiu Xiaolong will present a pair of events April 19 and 20 for The SmartSet Series: Where Great Writers Read, sponsored by The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences.

Photo by Kevin LowderUniversity students and administrators recently toured the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.

The women’s basketball team has proven to be one of the most dominant teams in any collegiate sport of the past 15 years. After defeating the University of Southern Maine in the 2000 national championship game, the Bears became the only Division III basketball team to win three straight national titles and just the second […]

The Washington University School of Medicine and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work are both ranked second in the nation, according to new graduate and professional rankings released April 2 by U.S. News & World Report magazine. The School of Medicine was tied for second in 2003 and has placed in the top 10 every year since the annual rankings began in 1987. It has ranked first in student selectivity — a measurement of student quality based on Medical College Admission Test scores, undergraduate grade-point average and the proportion of applicants selected — every year since 1998.