Newsroom Stories

Richard Heinzl, M.D., founder of Doctors without Borders, Canada, will present a talk, “Lessons from Abroad: The Opportunities of a Borderless World” at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 8 at Graham Chapel on the Danforth Campus.The event is co-sponsored by the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy, the Gephardt Institute for Public Service and the School of Medicine

NASA astronaut Robert L. Behnken, PhD, presents to Chancelllor Mark S. Wrighton a photograph of James S. McDonnell, a.k.a. “Mr. Mac,” that had traveled into space and been signed by his fellow astronauts. Behnken presented the photograph at the end of the third annual Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lecture Oct. 21, during which he described his experiences as a space shuttle crewmember and life on the International Space Station.

Scientists from across Missouri will gather Wednesday, Oct. 27, at Washington University in St. Louis to learn — in one jam-packed day — about the latest advances in nanotechnology and opportunities for commercializing them. Co-organized by seven Missouri universities, the 2nd Annual Missouri NanoFrontiers Symposium is co-hosted by Washington University and the University of Missouri-St. Louis and begins at 7:45 a.m. in Whitaker Hall on the Danforth Campus. The meeting is free and open to the public. 

Chronicle of Higher Education WUSTL among top five producers of Fulbright scholars 10/24/2010 The U.S. State Department wants its premier fellowship program to help develop creative responses to problems as serious as climate change and pandemics. The Fulbright Program, which had a budget of $253.8 million in the 2010 fiscal year, sent 1,564 students and […]

Sports updates for the week of Oct. 25, 2010.

James Buckley, PhD, professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $98,310 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research titled “Search for Dark Matter Annihilation in Subhalos with Fermi and Veritas.” … Namgyal Choedup, graduate student in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $17,800 grant from […]

News highlights for October 22, 2010 CisionPoint news monitoring provides this small sampling of the university’s daily news coverage. Click headline to read full text via Cision or link directly to the online article where available. For questions or comments about this service, or to add or delete a name from the mailing list, please […]

Luis Zayas, PhD, the Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, will be on this week’s Latino USA program on NPR discussing Latina teen suicide in the United States. Listen to the program at http://www.latinousa.org/916-2/.

Your DNA influences how much you smoke and whether you will develop lung cancer or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A study, led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine, is the first large-scale effort to match genetics with smoking, lung cancer and COPD combined. The investigators studied 38,000 smokers and found that two groups of gene variants on chromosome 15 influence the risk for all three problems.

Celebrated architect Jeanne Gang, principal and founder of Studio Gang Architects in Chicago, will discuss her work for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ fall Public Lecture Series at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25. The talk, titled “High and Low,” is the school’s annual Coral Courts Lecture and will take place in Steinberg Hall Auditorium, located near the intersection of Skinker and Forsyth boulevards. A reception for Gang will precede the lecture, at 6 p.m.