Collaborative artists Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick have won international acclaim for large-scale photo installations that mix dry wit and subtle narratives with trippy, futuristic surrealism: Rene Magritte meets NASA and Pink Floyd. On Monday, Jan. 28, Kahn and Selesnick—who met as WUSTL photography majors—will discuss their work for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts spring Public Lecture Series.
The School of Engineering & Applied Science has selected six
semifinalists to receive a $1,000 interim funding award and to go on to
compete for a $25,000 grand prize in the inaugural Discovery Competition.
The Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine will begin seeing patients Jan. 7 at its newest outpatient location, in south St. Louis County.
Invisible high-velocity particles rain down on Earth day in and day out, but it has taken 100 years and clever deduction for physicists to figure out what they’re made of and where they come from. Although some details are still unclear, physicists have built a case that the cosmic rays are born in volleys of supernova explosions in OB associations, loose associations of hot, massive stars sprinkled throughout our galaxy.
Kathryn Liszewski, a research scientist on the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine, has written her second book, Why Worry? Stop Coping and Start Living, to help others confront anxiety.
Children suspected of having appendicitis are more
likely to receive CT scans, which involve radiation, if they are
evaluated at a general hospital, a new study by Washington University
School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown.
The causes of learning problems associated with an
inherited brain tumor disorder are much more complex than scientists had
anticipated, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in
St. Louis report.
School of Medicine instructors recently were presented with Distinguished Service Teaching Awards for the 2011-12 academic year. Gregory M. Polites, MD, and Steven C. Cheng, MD, display their awards.
Two Washington University faculty members have received awards from the Radiation Research Society recognizing their contributions to research in the field and their service to the society.
A groundbreaking study on young adults with autism, led by Washington University in St. Louis researcher Paul Shattuck, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School, has been chosen as one of the “Top Ten Autism Research Advances of 2012” by the advocacy organization Autism Speaks.
