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Campus & Community

T-REx Training

Washington University’s business, engineering and law schools are ­collaborating on a new course that embeds ­students in the center of the thriving entrepreneur community in downtown St. Louis.
Campus & Community

Right to Vote*

At polling places across America in November 2012, Latinos and African Americans under age 30 were disproportionately asked for identification, even in states that do not have voter ID laws, according to a post-election ­analysis by researchers at Washington University and the University of Chicago.
Campus & Community

Rockin’ Campus

In the song “School Days,” Chuck Berry proclaimed, “Long live rock ’n’ roll,” and at Washington University so it has.
Campus & Community

In the Loop

Washington University is moving forward with an $80 million mixed-use development of ­student apartments and retail spaces in the Delmar Loop.
Medicine & Health

Pretesting cervical tumors could inform treatment

Doctors at the School of Medicine have shown that testing cervical tumors before treatment for vulnerability to chemotherapy predicts whether patients will do well or poorly with standard treatment. The study supports the future possibility of personalized medicine for cervical cancer, a tumor normally addressed with a one-size-fits-all approach. Pictured is a cervical tumor visible on a PET/CT scan.