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The School of Engineering & Applied Science has selected six semifinalists to receive a $1,000 interim funding award and to go on to compete for a $25,000 grand prize in the inaugural Discovery Competition.

The Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine will begin seeing patients Jan. 7 at its newest outpatient location, in south St. Louis County.

Invisible high-velocity particles rain down on Earth day in and day out, but  it has taken 100 years and clever deduction  for physicists to figure out what they’re made of and where they come from. Although some details are still unclear, physicists have built a case that the cosmic rays are born in volleys of supernova explosions in OB associations, loose associations of hot, massive stars sprinkled throughout our galaxy.

Kathryn Liszewski, a research scientist on the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine, has written her second book, Why Worry? Stop Coping and Start Living, to help others confront anxiety. 

Children suspected of having appendicitis are more likely to receive CT scans, which involve radiation, if they are evaluated at a general hospital, a new study by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown.

The causes of learning problems associated with an inherited brain tumor disorder are much more complex than scientists had anticipated, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report.

School of Medicine instructors recently were presented with Distinguished Service Teaching Awards for the 2011-12 academic year. Gregory M. Polites, MD, and Steven C. Cheng, MD, display their awards.

Two Washington University faculty members have received awards from the Radiation Research Society recognizing their contributions to research in the field and their service to the society.

A groundbreaking study on young adults with autism, led by Washington University in St. Louis researcher Paul Shattuck, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School, has been chosen as one of the “Top Ten Autism Research Advances of 2012” by the advocacy organization Autism Speaks.​

Robert Bork was a major figure in the history of American law, and of the Supreme Court, says Neil Richards, JD, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis and former law clerk for Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. “There is a great irony to Bork’s death this week, a day after the House of Representatives voted to relax the privacy protections in the so-called “Bork Bill,” the federal law that protects the privacy of our video records.”