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New research, led by Li Ding, PhD, shows that current genome analysis approaches systematically miss detecting a certain type of complex mutation in cancer patients’ tumors. A significant percentage of these complex mutations are found in well-known cancer genes that could be targeted by existing drugs, potentially expanding the number of cancer patients who may benefit.

Few things are as certain as the end of life, so why is it so hard to talk about? That’s a question that many families will be grappling with over the holidays. And while it’s easy to put off dark discussions during festive times, it’s best to have them sooner than later, says Brian Carpenter, a psychologist who studies family relations in later life at Washington University in St. Louis.

Washington University in St. Louis will be well-represented at a pivotal environmental summit, held in India and hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Chancellor Mark Wrighton and Pratim Biswas, PhD, the Lucy and Stanley Lopata Professor and Chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, will each give talks to scientists and researchers gathered in Mumbai for the 5th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research. 

Robert Blankenship, PhD, the Lucille P. Markey Distinguished Professor of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the St. Louis Section of the American Chemical Society’s 2015 Midwest Award.

A new center has been formed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to facilitate research that explores the regenerative properties of cells and tissues. The Center of Regenerative Medicine is headquarted in the recently opened 4515 McKinley Research Building, along with several other School of Medicine centers and divisions.

The Performing Arts Department, in collaboration with The Center of Creative Arts (COCA) — one of the nation’s foremost community arts schools — will launch a new Master of Fine Arts in Dance in fall of 2016.

Cultural education through tourism. An app for assisting physical therapy patients. A self-care subscription box. These are a few of the business concepts being launched during this semester’s social entrepreneurship class at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Charnele Dawson, a candidate for a bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in anthropology from Arts & Sciences, receives congratulations from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton during Washington University in St. Louis’ December degree candidate recognition ceremony Dec. 6 in Graham Chapel. Dawson was among more than 200 degree candidates who participated in the ceremony. […]

Daniel E. Goldberg, MD, PhD, a renowned researcher in molecular parasitology, has been named the inaugural David M. and Paula L. Kipnis Distinguished Professor. Goldberg, who earned his medical degree and a doctorate in molecular biology from Washington University, is a longtime professor of medicine and of molecular microbiology at the School of Medicine.

Five Washington University in St. Louis faculty have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grants to study abroad during the 2015-16 academic year. They are Petra Levin, PhD (right), Timothy Parsons, PhD; and Guillermo Rosas, PhD, all in Arts & Sciences; Jesse Vogler of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts; and Edythe E. Weeks, JD, PhD, of University College in Arts & Sciences.