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Three aspiring playwrights will present staged readings of their works Oct. 1 and 2 as part of the 2010 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival, sponsored by the Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences. Named in honor of alumnus A.E. Hotchner, the festival consists of an intensive two-week workshop that culminates in the staged readings. This year’s workshop is led by dramaturg Allison Horsley, assistant professor of dramatic literature at the University of Denver

Women in science and medicine were the focus of the Spotlight on Women in Medicine and Science (SWIMS) symposium Sept. 22 at the School of Medicine.

Dear Mr. President: With your economic team in transition, Murray Weidenbaum thought you could use some advice. Weidenbaum is an economist who has wrestled with federal budgets for six decades during a long career in public service and as an advisor to two presidents. Weidenbaum has prepared a list of budget cuts that calls for a new approach to fiscal restraint.

A multidisciplinary team led by landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh has won an international competition to reshape the area surrounding Eero Saarinen’s iconic Gateway Arch. Also on the team is artist Ann Hamilton, who is serving this fall as the inaugural Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Visiting Artist in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.  

Business News from The Birmingham News Birmingham Blueprint group culled the best from other communities (with poll) 09/24/2010 A Birmingham, Alabama, civic group has included the St. Louis’ CORTEX business incubator district on a short list of civic initiatives nationwide that routinely draw inquiries and are widely viewed as success stories. The nonprofit CORTEX partnership, […]

The less celebrated roles of dissertation advisers, such as teaching you to drive stick and to rope cattle. How I learned to drive stick. First near-death experience. I encounter killer bees while walking transects in Belize. Why I now work exclusively in arid environments. What happens if you leave the lights on when you park […]

An innovative procedure that can replace a diseased heart valve is effective for patients who are too frail to endure open-heart surgery, according to results of a nationwide clinical study.

Washington University in St. Louis School of Law and Saint Louis University Law School are co-hosting the Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law Friday and Saturday, Sept. 24 and 25.

Yehuda Ben-Shahar, PhD, assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $150,000 fellowship in neurosciences from the Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund. … Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, the Robert L. Glaser Professor of Pathology and Immunology and professor of developmental biology and of medicine, has received five-year, $1,687,200 grant from […]

An investigation by an international consortium of scientists, including an anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, has discovered the origin of the world’s deadliest form of human malaria, Plasmodium falciparum.