A team of researchers from Washington University and the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa, Israel, has developed a technique to detect the ancestry of disease genes in hybrid, or mixed, human populations.
Photo by Kevin LowderThe Graduate Student Research Symposium, held April 5 in the Lab Sciences Building, enabled students to polish their communication skills in presenting their research to members of the WUSTL community.
Photo by Whitney CurtisEducators attend Faces of Hope, a University-wide celebration of civic engagement and community service May 8 at Whitaker Hall. Hosted by the Gephardt Institute for Public Service, Faces of Hope featured a poster session highlighting community service by students and faculty.
The men’s and women’s track and field teams came in second place out of five teams at the Washington University Quad Meet April 11. Junior Danielle Wadlington turned in the best individual performance of the meet, provisionally qualifying for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 100-meter hurdles. She placed second in the event with a […]
Three doctoral students — Keona Ervin from the Department of History in Arts & Sciences, Henrika McCoy from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work and Tracy Nicholson from the Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis program in the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences — were inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at the annual Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education March 29 at Yale University.
The Community Service Office of the Gephardt Institute for Public Service has announced five winners of three Social Change Grants, awarded annually to students pursuing innovative ideas that serve the common good in the spirit of social entrepreneurship. The three grants have a total value of $18,000.
A brain network linked to introspective tasks — such as forming a self-image or understanding the motivations of others — is less intricate and less well connected in children, School of Medicine scientists have learned. They also showed that the network establishes firmer connections between various brain regions as an individual matures. The scientists are […]
Dividing items into small portions helps control consumption. Whether it’s food or money, people tend to go through things more slowly when the lump sum is partitioned into small portions, according to new research from a WUSTL marketing professor.
David Kilper/WUSTL PhotoMuthanna Al-Dahhan (left) and graduate student Rajneesh Varma are researching effective ways to take agricultural waste and make biofuel out of it.Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis, using an impressive array of imaging and tracking technologies, have determined the importance of mixing in anaerobic digesters for bioenergy production and animal and farm wastes treatment. They are studying ways to take “the smell of money,” as farmers long have termed manure’s odor, and produce biogas from it.
The George Warren Brown School of Social Work will honor five distinguished individuals for outstanding school service during its annual Alumni Awards Dinner April 30 at the Coronado Ballroom. The Distinguished Alumni Award recipients are Ruth R. Ehresman, Ronda S. Connaway, D.S.W., and Michael E. Willis. Curtis McMillen, Ph.D., professor of social work and associate director of the Center for Mental Health Services Research, will receive the Distinguished Faculty Award. The Dean’s Medal recipient is B. A. Bridgewater, Jr., retired chairman and chief executive officer at Brown Shoe Company.