Newsroom Stories

Researchers at the School of Medicine are studying the quality, effectiveness and safety of generic drugs used to treat depression. The research, supported by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is the only study of its kind in the nation. Pictured is the study’s principal investigator, Evan D. Kharasch, MD, PhD.

The McDonnell International Scholars Academy has begun a special summer program for undergraduates. The McDonnell Academy International Leadership Institute (MAILI) is a five-week, summer academic experience for undergraduates from Washington University and the academy’s 28 international partner institutions.

Dance Marathon morale chairs Pamela Rivera and Sam Cornblath share why the annual benefit, now celebrating its 15th year, is so important to them. It’s not the great music or the free gooey butter cake, but the kids.

El Mercado, a festival featuring salsa dancing and mariachi music, was one of the highlights of Parents Weekend.

Washington University’s Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI) will host an information session titled “Show Me LLI” for prospective members from 1-3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, at the university’s West Campus. The LLI is at 9 N. Jackson Ave. in Clayton, Mo. The event, which will feature an overall orientation followed by several sample classes, is free and open to senior adults ages 55 and older.

By looking at what banks do rather than what they say, finance professors in the Olin Business School estimate that the effect on bank profitability of new regulations would be hardly noticeable.

Applicants to Washington University in St. Louis now have an alternative to the trouble-plagued Common Application, which has been a source of frustration for prospective students, high school counselors, colleges and universities nationwide.

Shrinivas Kulkarni, McArthur Professor of Astronomy & Planetary Science at Caltech, will deliver the sixth annual Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, in Room 100, Whitaker Hall, on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis. The talk, titled “Booms, Burps & Bumps: the Dynamic Universe,” describes transient astronomical objects, violent, deep sky events typically visible only for a few days. It is free and open to the public.

In the age of e-readers, is the printed book obsolete? On Thursday, Nov. 7, cultural historian Robert Darnton—author of The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future—will present the keynote address for “Celebrating Our Books, Recognizing Our Authors,” Washington University in St. Louis’ 12th annual faculty book colloquium.

The Congressional Medal of Honor is the United States’ highest award for valor in combat. It is very hard to get. Since being signed into law by Abraham Lincoln, only 3,468 medals have been awarded — 70 percent of them posthumously. In Beyond Glory, actor and playwright Stephen Lang — perhaps best known as Colonel Quaritch in Avatar — presents eight of these stories in the words of the men who lived them.