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For almost two decades, cardiologists have searched for ways to see dangerous blood clots before they cause heart attacks. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report that they have designed nanoparticles that find clots and make them visible to a new kind of X-ray technology.

The Medical School remains open. Essential employees – as determined by supervisors – should work in order to maintain life safety, mission critical and patient care activities. Supervisors may allow non-essential employees to use vacation time to remain at home during this weather emergency. Garage parking for employees will return to normal on Thursday, February […]

Henry S. Webber (right), WUSTL’s executive vice chancellor for administration, speaks during a panel discussion on strategies for economic development in the St. Louis region in the second installation of St. Louis Great Debates Jan. 25 at the Missouri History Museum. The first debate in the series, which took place this past October, examined whether the City of St. Louis should re-enter St. Louis County.

The Assembly Series program featuring Dan Senor, which was scheduled for tonight, Feb. 2, has been canceled due to weather issues.

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 Two Washington U students are safely out of Egypt 02/02/2011 As political unrest erupted in Egypt last week, Washington University student Allegra Skurka found herself holed up in an apartment in Cairo with 20 other college students, all there for a study-abroad program. Skurka, 20, was one of two Washington University students who were […]

The Family Learning Center building has received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The Family Learning Center building, designed by Ross Barney Architects, features energy-efficient equipment and lighting; lighting controls; a thermally efficient building envelope; regional, recycled and rapidly renewable materials; and native and adapted planting.

In the Jan. 14 issue of Science, Washington University in St. Louis biologist Sarah C.R. Elgin, PhD, and 12 other biomedical research scientists recommend seven steps that universities can take to support the teacher-scientist, ranging in difficulty from educating faculty about research on learning or creating teaching discussion groups to creating (monetary) awards and named professorships for outstanding teachers and requiring excellence in teaching for promotion.

Laura Rosenbury, JD, associate dean for research and faculty development and professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, has been elected to the American Law Institute (ALI), a national independent organization that focuses on producing scholarly work to clarify and modernize the law. Membership in the ALI is based on professional achievement and a demonstrated interest in improving the law.

Art historian Richard Meyer, associate professor at the University of Southern California (USC) and author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (2002), will launch the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ Multiple Feminisms Lecture Series Feb. 2. Designed to expand the conversation about what it means to be feminist, the series will investigate the ongoing cultural debate over sexuality and gender, as well as the effects of that debate on modern art, visual culture and academic practice.

The severe winter storm that moved through the St. Louis region closed all Washington University campuses except for the School of Medicine from 3 p.m. Monday, Jan. 31 through 10 a.m Wednesday, Feb. 2.