Obituary: Kilgen, led redevelopment around Medical Center, 71
Eugene R. Kilgen Jr., former executive director of the Washington University Medical Center Redevelopment Corp., died Jan. 17, 2009, at Conway Manor in Creve Coeur. He was 71.
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Photo by Kevin LowderArchitecture graduate students work on a shelter on the Ruth Park Golf Course in University City, a class project in a fall graduate design/build studio led by Carl Safe, professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
Novel technique changes lymph node biopsy procedure for breast cancer patients
David Kilper/WUSTL PhotoFor the first time, WUSTL scientists have used gold nanocages to map sentinel lymph nodes in a rat noninvasively using photoacoustic tomography.
Fellowship applicants sought by Center for Humanities
Graduate students from all fields in the humanities and social sciences are invited to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship and two graduate student dissertation fellowships awarded to the Center for the Humanities by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminars program.
Obituary: Grant, longtime clinical faculty, 80
Neville Grant, M.D., a professor of clinical medicine for nearly 40 years, died Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. He was 80.
Major retrospective, Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, opens Jan. 30 at WUSTL’s Kemper Art Museum
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University will host Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, the first retrospective to explore the complete career of the acclaimed Finnish- American architect. The exhibit will remain on view at the Kemper Museum through April 27. A second exhibition, On the Riverfront: St. Louis and the Gateway Arch, highlights the history of the St. Louis waterfront and includes selected submissions from the 1947 competition, including Saarinen’s own entry, subsequent drawings and models, on view in Steinberg Hall through March 9.
Course combining western civ with history of entrepreneurs is honored
Steven C. Hause, Ph.D., senior scholar in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, has received the Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Course Award from the U.S. Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship for his course, “Economic History and Entrepreneurialism in Modern Western Civilization.”
Business students take on European Union as a case study
Three dozen students from Washington University in St. Louis have a tough assignment: Determine the financial implications of Turkey’s application to join the European Union and further enlargement of EU membership.
Major immune system branch has hidden ability to learn
Half of the immune system has a hidden talent, researchers at the School of Medicine have discovered. They found the innate immune system, long recognized as a specialist in rapidly and aggressively combating invaders, has cells that can learn from experience and fight better when called into battle a second time. Scientists previously thought any such ability was limited to the immune system’s other major branch, the adaptive immune system.
Scientists uncover new genetic variations linked to psoriasis
Two international teams of researchers have made significant gains in understanding the genetic basis of psoriasis, a chronic skin condition that can be debilitating in some patients. Their research, involving thousands of patients, is reported in two studies published this week in the advance online Nature Genetics.