Using nature’s strengths for everyone’s benefit
Janine Benyus, one of the pre-eminent practitioners of biomimicry, will speak for the Assembly Series at 5:30 p.m. March 19 in Graham Chapel.
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500 and counting
Courtesy PhotoMen’s basketball team members celebrate with their head coach, Mark Edwards, after defeating rival University of Chicago, 72-49, Feb. 28 and helping Edwards win the 500th game of his coaching career.
Mr. Wash U
Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Junior Nick Prickel is hoisted onto his competitors’ shoulders after being crowned the new Mr. Wash U Feb. 26 in Edison Theatre.
First-of-its-kind international conference to focus on the evolution of cooperation
Numerous prominent researchers will gather at WUSTL March 12-14 to discuss the nature of human sociality. The conference, titled “Man the Hunted: The Origin and Nature of Human Sociality, Altruism and Well-Being,” is the first of its kind to focus on the evolution of cooperation, altruism and sociality in primates and humans.
Residents can effectively treat strokes, study says
Residents with appropriate training can safely make the decision to administer stroke treatment in emergency cases, a new study shows.
Brain cells’ hidden differences linked to potential cancer risk
Brain cells long lumped into the same category have hidden differences that may contribute to the formation of tumors, a new School of Medicine study shows.
Children need to continue asthma drugs to maintain their benefits
Children whose asthma improved while taking steroid drugs for several years did not see those improvements continue after stopping the drugs.
Sharing discoveries
Photo by Robert BostonStephen Rogers, Ph.D., explains his poster to Solange Landreville, Ph.D., at the Fifth Annual Postdoc Scientific Symposium Feb. 24 in the Eric P. Newman Education Center.
Mutch elected president of Society of Gynecologic Oncologists
David G. Mutch, M.D., director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology, has been elected president of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists
Fiction writer Lydia Davis to speak for Writing Program Reading Series
Fiction writer Kate Bernheimer will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst Lounge for the Writing Program Reading Series.