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Human breast tumors transplanted into mice are excellent models of metastatic cancer and are providing insights into how to attack breast cancers that no longer respond to the drugs used to treat them, according to research led by Matthew J. Ellis, MD, PhD, from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

A few years ago, when David Browman, PhD, professor of archaeology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, read his graduate student’s thesis on the early figures in Americanist archaeology, he immediately asked, “Where are all the women?”

Four WUSTL faculty members were recognized for their accomplishments during the Faculty Achievement Awards ceremony Dec. 7 in Simon Hall. (From left) David M. Holtzman, MD, and Randall J. Bateman, MD, received the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. James V. Wertsch, PhD, and Richard H. Gelberman, MD, received the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award and the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award, respectively.

Washington University in St. Louis students delighted their Clayton neighbors by singing holiday carols last weekend. Afterward, the students gathered to warm up with hot cocoa.

WUSTL experts explore the science of stress and offer practical ways to beat back chronic stress during the hectic holiday season. 

Tony Award-winning playwright, and Washington University alumnus, Steven Sater discusses theater, adolescence and his Broadway smash Spring Awakening.

WUSTL physicians say stress management for those suffering from diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, insomnia and other conditions. Plus, how much do you know about stress? Take our “stress test” and find out.

Thalachallour Mohanakumar, PhD, the Jacqueline G. and William E. Maritz Professor of Surgery at the School of Medicine, has received the Paul I. Terasaki Clinical Science Award. He was given the award Nov. 20 at the 39th annual meeting of the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics in Chicago.

Students and faculty in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis have filed an amicus brief on behalf of air pollution scientists in an important environmental case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, EPA v. EME Homer City Generation LP, involves a challenge to the EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, which seeks to protect the health of citizens of downwind states by placing limits on air pollution that crosses state lines. Electric power companies, several states and local governments challenged the rule as overreaching.

​Ann Marie Dale, PhD, (right) of the School of Medicine has conducted studies to evaluate methods to reduce injuries construction workers suffer at work. She currently is studying whether participatory ergonomics can lessen such injuries. She is shown here with Lisa Jaegers (left), also of the School of Medicine, and Fritz Hoffmeister, safety director of C&R Mechanical Co., at the Shriners Hospitals for Children-St. Louis construction site.