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Fifteen current or former WUSTL students have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships for the 2010-11 academic year. Nine are recently graduated seniors and six are graduate students. They will spend a full academic year in a host country.

Brian Marston (left), library web services developer; Jaleh Fazelian, Islamic studies librarian; and Brian Vetruba, Germanic studies librarian, examine an Amazon Kindle reading device during the Taste of Technology fair July 8 at Olin Library.

A study undertaken to help scientists concerned with abnormal brain development in premature babies has serendipitously revealed evolution’s imprint on the human brain.

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the colonial alga, Volvox carteri, the journal Science announced. While the photosynthesizing colonial algae is fascinating in itself, knowing its genome may also help scientists engineer algae able to produce economic biofuels.

Five WUSTL undergraduate students who graduated in May have been named to the USA Today’s 2010 All-USA College Academic Team. Tegan Bukowski and Chase Sackett were named to the second team, Cameron Ball was named to the third team, and Emily Becker and Andrew Hoekzema were named as honorable mentions. … Han Kim, a rising […]

In the decades following the Second World War, European and American artists developed a wide range of strategies and approaches to abstract painting and sculpture. This summer, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present Gesture, Scrape, Combine, Calculate: Postwar Abstraction from the Permanent Collection, showcasing more than a dozen large-scale yet rarely seen works that span gestural and lyrical abstraction, color-field painting, hard-edge abstraction and assemblage.

Roy R. Peterson, PhD, who taught anatomy to thousands of Washington University School of Medicine students over four decades, died Friday, July 2, 2010, of a brief illness from cancer. He was 86.

The U.S. Justice Department lawsuit filed July 6 against Arizona’s controversial new immigration law will likely see partial success, according to a Washington University in St. Louis law professor. But he predicts the legal battle will extend beyond Arizona.

Washington University is hosting its fourth ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp June 20-July 2 for 48 middle school students from St. Louis City, County and Metro East schools. The free two-week residential camp offers innovative programs to enhance middle school students’ science and math knowledge. Former NASA astronaut and camp namesake Bernard A. Harris Jr., MD, will visit the campers from 10 a.m. to noon June 30 in Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall.

The saying “You are who you hang around with” seems especially true when it comes to alcohol, cigarette and drug use. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are reporting that people who hang out with marijuana, cigarette or alcohol users are not only more likely to do the same, but that exposure allows genetic tendencies for substance use to become more robust.