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Ramesh K. Agarwal, PhD, the William Palm Professor of Engineering, has been selected to receive two awards from SAE International: the Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson Aerospace Vehicle Design and Development Award, which recognizes Agarwal’s contributions to aerospace engineering; and the Franklin W. Kolk Air Transportation Progress Award, which recognizes Agarwal’s contributions to air transportation through […]

USA Today
 Obama’s call for civility seen as right tone
 01/14/2011 President Obama’s warmly received plea for tolerance and temperance in the wake of last weekend’s massacre in Tucson has created an opportunity for him to change the tone of political debate in Washington and possibly advance his overall agenda. “What he has to make […]

Peter M.J. Burgers, PhD, has been named the Marvin A. Brennecke Professor of Biological Chemistry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

The New Republic Jeff Smith: A rising political star until the FBI started asking about his past 1/13/2011 Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith, a thirty-something academic turned politician, was the brightest young star in the Missouri Democratic Party until a campaign violation upended his career and sent him to jail. As a Washington University political […]

A Washington University in St. Louis team is participating in the modENCODE project, a massive ongoing effort to map all the elements in model organisms that affect whether genes are silenced or expressed. The work supports the more complex ENCODE project, which is tasked to map the same elements in the human genome. While the genome is the same in every cell, each cell type expresses a different set of genes. In people, moreover, roughly 95 percent of the genome is silenced. Together the projects will “put flesh on the bones” of the Human Genome Project, says team leader Sarah C.R. Elgin.

Bloomberg Businessweek Obama in Arizona means moment to alter an image of ‘detachment’ 01/12/2011 In Arizona today, President Barack Obama will confront a moment of national pain that presents him with a chance to establish a new bond with the American people. Obama “has to walk a careful line in which he’s not accusing, but […]

“The Past is Alive … The Work is Not Yet Done” is the theme of Washington University in St. Louis’ 24th annual celebration honoring Martin Luther King Jr. at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 17, in Graham Chapel on the Danforth Campus. Events will aslo take place at the School of Medicine, the Brown School and the School of Law.

CQ Today Politicians plan strategies aimed at changing filibuster rules in Congress 1/05/2011 In an attempt to avoid a knock-down partisan battle over proposals to overcome Senate filibusters with a simple majority vote, Democrats proposed changes Wednesday that would take more-modest steps to reduce the minority’s power to slow or block Senate action. “They are […]

The men’s basketball team split a pair of games last week to drop its overall record to 6-5. Freshman Tim Cooney recorded the first double-double of his career with 13 points and a career-high 11 rebounds to lead the Bears to a 67-52 home victory over Benedictine University Jan. 4. Cooney was one of four players to score in double figures for Washington University.

The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams returned to action after their winter break hiatus to compete against Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and Lindenwood University Jan. 7.