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Common Ground, a joint initiative of the Department of History, the Program in African and African American Studies and the Program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, all in Arts & Sciences, will host five speakers over the remainder of the academic year. The first, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, PhD, will present Thursday, Dec. 2.

Reuters.com Shoulder surgery can curtail an NFL career 11/30/2010A problem shoulder might shorten the career of college athletes who are talented enough to get drafted by a professional football team, according to a new study. The study focused on college players drafted into National Football League (NFL) teams. By the time they were drafted, all […]

The Advanced Coal and Energy Research Facility, an experimental combustion facility on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis, was dedicated in October 2010. At the time, the combuster was cold and the bioreactors empty. Now that the facility is up and running, Richard Axelbaum, PhD, professor of energy, environmental & chemical Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science and director of the new facility, gives a video tour of the new laboratory.  

Novel metal catalysts might be able to turn greenhouse gases like methane and carbon dioxide into liquid fuels without producing more carbon waste in the process.

For the first time ever, a team from China is on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. The men’s basketball team from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, is visiting WUSTL through Dec. 5 to take part in the 27th annual Lopata Classic basketball tournament.

Washington University Dance Theatre, the annual showcase of professionally choreographed works performed by student dancers, will present Living in the Momentum, its 2010 concert, Dec. 3, 4 and 5 in Edison Theatre. Performances — sponsored by the Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences — will feature more than 50 student dancers, selected by audition, in seven original works by faculty and guest choreographers.  

Students enjoy a Thanksgiving meal with friends Nov. 25 in College Hall in the new South 40 House on the Danforth Campus. From 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Thanksgiving day, WUSTL Dining Services offered a meal featuring turkey, stuffing, cornbread, sweet potatoes, green beans, pumpkin pie and more.

Neuroscientists using a new brain imaging technique could see an investigational drug for Parkinson’s disease get into a patient’s brain and affect blood flow in several key structures, an indicator the drug may be effective. In the future, similar brain scans could speed the development of new drugs and help clinicians learn whether established drugs are working.  

Technology Review Computers get help from the human brain 11/30/2010 Tapping into the processing power of the human brain could help computers with some tasks. Most brain-computer interface research is focused on harnessing conscious processes, says Eric Leuthardt, director of the Center for Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology at Washington University School of Medicine. “Reading […]

Sports updates for week of Nov. 30, 2010.