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(From left) Brown School students perform a multi-cultural fusion dance during the 17th annual International Festival held March 6 at the 560 Music Building. The theme of this year’s festival was “1 Community, A World of Traditions.”

School of Medicine students and their guests enjoyed the 2011 Med Ball March 12 at the Millennium Hotel in St. Louis.

Cemeteries and marching bands, skeleton krewes and carnivals both glittering and raucous. Even prior to Hurricane Katrina, few cities understood the fine line between revelry and requiem better than New Orleans. In April, celebrated choreographer Trey McIntyre — arguably among the most acclaimed of his generation — will return to the Edison Ovations Series with Ma Maison, a rousing homage to the spirit, vibrancy and resiliency of The City that Care Forgot.

Samuel Hundert (left) and Feng Su were among 117 School of Medicine students who learned where they will do their residencies March 17 at Match Day. Of those, 24 matched at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine, and six matched at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has launched its new Center for the Study of Itch, believed to be the world’s first multidisciplinary program designed solely to understand and treat itch. It was established to bring scientists and clinicians together to study the mechanisms that transmit the perception of itch and to translate those findings into better treatments for chronic sufferers. 

Gautam Dantas, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and immunology, has received a one-year, $120,000 grant from the Washington University/Pfizer Biomedical Research Program for research titled “Discovery of Mechanistically Novel Antibiotic Combinations that Inhibit Multi-drug Resistant Gram-negative Pathogens.” … Stuart Greenbaum, PhD, former dean of Olin Business School and the Bank of America Professor Emeritus of […]

Los Angeles Times
 Aftershocks prompt fears of major Tokyo quake
 03/15/2011 The pattern of aftershocks in Japan appears to be shifting south toward Tokyo, raising concerns among scientists that the temblors could transfer stress to nearby faults. The fear is that the initial quake and the series of large aftershocks will transfer geophysical stress into […]

Paper airplane competitions were only a part of the annual Engineering Week Feb. 20-25. The annual week, sponsored by the School of Engineering & Applied Science, is designed to raise awareness of the profession and included a scavenger “golden mouse” hunt throughout the engineering school, Nerf gun battles and the traditional “Mr. Engineering” pageant.

Associated Press
 Canadian boy moved to US over end-of-life dispute
 03/15/2011 A Canadian couple transferred their terminally ill toddler son to a Catholic hospital in St. Louis after an Ontario court ruled doctors could remove breathing tube keeping the boy alive. Rebecca Dresser, a professor of law and medical ethics at Washington University in St. […]

Innovative new studies at the School of Medicine will evaluate novel strategies for reducing infections in health-care settings. The research, led by Victoria Fraser, MD, is funded by a grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.