Five students, five continents, one fascinating blog
Five friends and WUSTL students document their studies and travels abroad — on five continents — through stories and photographs.
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Medical students learn their futures on Match Day
Fourth-year medical students learned Friday, March 21, where they will go for residency training, the next stage of their careers. The annual event also brought a marriage proposal for one student, to the delight of students gathered for Match Day. Shown is student Jacqueline Chen upon learning she will go to Barnes-Jewish Hospital to focus on internal medicine for her residency.
New clue to autism found inside brain cells
WU-SLam places sixth at national college slam poetry competition
WU-SLam, Washington University in St. Louis’ spoken-word poetry group, placed sixth this month at the 14th annual College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational, the nation’s largest college slam poetry tournament. Here, junior Sam Lai performs.
What’s so hard about counting craters?
The journal Icarus published a study this month that compared lunar crater counts by eight professionals with crowdsourced counts by volunteers. The professional crater counts varied by as much as a factor of two. Two of the professionals, both planetary scientists at Washington University in St. Louis, explain why they weren’t surprised.
Washington University to re-establish sociology department
Washington University in St. Louis is re-establishing its sociology department after a nearly 25-year hiatus, Barbara A. Schaal, PhD, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, has announced.
STL To Do: Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
Video producer Thomas J. Malkowicz recommends the Banff Mountain Film Fesitval World Tour. He says St. Louis is lucky to be a stop on the globetrotting tour, which showcases heart-stopping short films about adventure, travel and the environment.
Former Sen. Snowe to chat with faculty, students
Former U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, of Maine, will have an informal conversation with Washington University in St. Louis students and faculty at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge. The event is sponsored by the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy.
Joe Pantoliani Assembly Series program is canceled
The Assembly Series program featuring actor Joe Pantoliano set for March 31 has been canceled due to a sudden change in his filming schedule. There are no plans to reschedule the event.
Scientists find a molecular clue to the complex mystery of auxin signaling in plants
Plants fine-tune the response of their cells to the potent plant hormone auxin by means of large families of proteins that either step on the gas or put on the brake in auxin’s presence. Scientists at Washington University have learned that one of these proteins, a transcription factor, has an interaction region that, like a button magnet, has a positive and negative face. Because of this domain, the protein can bind two other proteins or even chains of proteins arranged back-to-front.