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An entrepreneur who has helped thousands of people in poverty-stricken countries throughout Africa says she couldn’t have done it without the help of students and professors at Washington University. The Blessing Basket Project bestows its annual World Changer award on WUSTL. Video history and thank you from artisans in Africa included.

At its fall meeting Oct. 1, the Board of Trustees heard presentations by the dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science and two engineering professors about the new Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer Hall, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.

The Daily Telegraph Sleepless birth risks — Mums’ blood pressure up 10/02/2010 Newly pregnant women who get less than five hours sleep a night are more likely to suffer from problems, research shows. Lack of sleep puts them at 10 times higher risk of pre-eclampsia, which causes high blood pressure, leading to organ damage and […]

Walking, jogging and other forms of regular aerobic exercise may actually ward off the onset of Alzheimer’s disease pathology in the brain, suggests newly published research from Washington University in St. Louis.  

Brazilian conceptual artist Rivane Neuenschwander creates playful, ephemeral and often participatory artworks that blur distinctions between author and viewer, object and memory, permanence and temporality. This fall, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other, the artist’s first major midcareer survey. Covering a decade of work, the exhibition reveals a wide-ranging interdisciplinary practice that merges painting, photography, film, sculpture, installation and collaborative action.

The Washington University in St. Louis Department of Athletics launched its new website Friday, Oct. 1. The website address will remain the same as the old site, bearsports.wustl.edu.

WHAT: Today, the Washington University military care package group will surpass 5 tons of total donated goods mailed to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan since the group formed in March 2004. Boxes containing the fifth ton will be packed at WUSTL today by group members and members of local ROTC programs. WHO: The WUSTL military […]

Of note Joseph Batchelor, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Microbiology; Drew Etheridge, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Microbiology; Andrew Kau, MD, PhD, of the Department of Pathology & Immunology; Michael Mahowald, MD, PhD, of the Department of Genetics; and Eric Tomko, PhD, of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; have been named […]

WUSTL will test its outdoor warning sirens on the Danforth Campus at 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 4, in conjunction with St. Louis County’s monthly siren test.

WHO: Washington University’s Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton; David W. Kemper, vice chair of the Washington University Board of Trustees; Ralph S. Quatrano, PhD, dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science; Melissa Holtmeyer, doctoral candidate, Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering and student representative to the Board of Trustees; and Stephen F. Brauer, […]