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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 […]

Mr. Smith went to Washington, again. Instead of staging a filibuster, Steven S. Smith, PhD, political science professor and parliamentary procedure expert  testified Sept. 22 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration on proposed rule changes governing debate and cloture.

A Washington University scientist has been working with the federal government to determine what makes heart disease disabling. To determine cardiac disability, the committee recommended more functional testing and also discussed the need to evaluate not only a patient’s heart but the patient’s mood as well because depression can make heart disease worse. 

Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is among the best-loved works in the classical repertoire and a foundation of the Baroque concerto. In 2002, celebrated violinist Robert McDuffie approached Philip Glass, arguably the most acclaimed composer working today, about writing a companion piece. The result is Glass’ Violin Concerto No. 2, The American Four Seasons, which McDuffie debuted last year. Now McDuffie and the Venice Baroque Orchestra, one of the world’s finest period instrument ensembles, will perform both works back-to-back as part of the Edison Ovations Series at Washington University. 

Jose Mestre, PhD, a distinguished scholar of physics learning and a highly regarded researcher in physics education, will deliver a talk titled “Physics Learning and Classroom Practice: Clinical and Classroom-Based Studies of Physics Cognition” on Wednesday, Sept. 29, at Washington University in St. Louis. The talk will take place at 4 p.m. in Crow Hall, Room 201.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts has announced the recipients of its 2010 Faculty Creative Activity Research Grants. Five art and architecture faculty members from the Sam Fox School will each receive between $1,000 and $8,000 to support projects ranging from reportage and publication to architectural case studies and GPS mapping of the Mekong River. 

Tokiyasu Fujita (left), former justice on the Supreme Court of Japan and Hiroshi Itoh, PhD, professor of political science at State University of New York at Plattsburgh, speak during the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law’s two-day symposium Decision-Making on the Japanese Supreme Court Sept. 10. The Center for Empirical Research in the Law hosted the conference.

The New York Times Effects of concussions on children 09/22/2010 Because of the physiology of the young brain, children who suffer a concussion need “not only physical rest but also almost complete brain rest,’’ said Dr. Mark Halstead, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis and lead author of the first […]