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Visiting professor Chuen-Jinn Tsai, Ph.D., and Da-Ren Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, discuss the design of their coaxial cyclone.Washington University in St. Louis engineers have developed a device that can make the semiconductor manufacturing industry cleaner

This NASA image shows the smoke from Iraq’s oil fires set early in the confrontation.An air pollution expert at Washington University in St. Louis says the air pollution created by the Iraqi war is regional and should remain that way unless something catastrophic happens such as the torching of the Kuwaiti oil wells in the 1991 Gulf War.

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The St. Louis arch has been thought to be a potential target for terrorists.Researchers at Washington University’s Center for Security Technologies are planning a surveillance system that recognizes aberrant traffic flow and then, using automatic target recognition, identifies and analyzes the danger.

Student group Green Givens will sponsor the week of exhibitions, talks and film screenings at the School of Architecture’s Givens Hall April 11-18.

Design, illustration and advertising majors have created Web sites showcasing new accessibility components of Macromedia Flash MX, the increasingly popular authoring tool for Web interfaces.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is today and runs from 5-9 p.m. in Brown Hall.

He served as interim dean of the School of Law in 1951.

All three may involve the same gene; the finding “may provide insight into a variety of conditions,” says lead reasearcher Jeffrey H. Miner.

Charles S. Zuker, an international expert on utilizing model systems to understand human development, will deliver the Oliver H. Lowry Lecture April 24.