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Campus & Community

Astrophysicist finds stories in the stars

The confluence of astrophysics and art meet in the studio of Annette Lee, MS ’08. An artist-scientist of Native ­American ­ancestry, Lee’s work has ­reconnected the Dakota and Ojibwe tribes with the star knowledge of her forebearers.
Arts & Culture

Lost boys

Stanley Strembicki, “Untitled,” November 2006.
For his Lost Memory collection, photographer Stanley Strembicki documented water-damaged photographs former residents of New Orleans were forced to abandon during Hurricane Katrina.
Campus & Community

From risk to reward

Ed and Pamela deZevallos
Alumnus Ed deZevallos is a lifelong serial entrepreneur, managing risk against reward and sharing his success to ­provide opportunities for others.
Medicine & Health

Siteman continues legacy of philanthropic support for cancer research

Siteman Cancer Research Funding
The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine is today among the most recognized cancer programs in the U.S. The longstanding support of Alvin Siteman (left) and his wife, Ruth, whose $35 million gift named the center in 1999, has been critical. Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, director of the Siteman Cancer Center, is on the right.
Business & Entrepreneurship

Reducing rule-breaking in clinical trials

The way that most scientific reports are presented seems to suggest that clinical trials have controlled for flaws or deviations, but some test subjects secretly break study rules that conflict with their own personal interests. These “subversive subjects” undermine the research endeavor.
Humanities & Society

Genetic privacy in a new era

Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD, of the University of Chicago, addresses the panel at the Policy Forum program “First, Do No Harm: Genetic Privacy in the Age of Genome Sequencing” in Brown Hall Feb. 25. Among other topics, panel participants addressed the ethical implications of genetic privacy and incidental findings that may occur because of genome testing. 
Arts & Culture

From Shostakovich to Jay-Z: Black Violin

Schubert borrowed from Beethoven. Public Enemy sampled Isaac Hayes. Ice Cube quoted Kool and the Gang while Brahms let drop with “Variations on a Theme from Haydn.” Hip-hop and classical music: perhaps not as different as you think. Old news to Wilner “Wil-B” Baptiste and Kevin “Kev Marcus” Sylvester, a.k.a. Black Violin.