Law students win Jessup super-regional, advance

A team of five students from the School of Law recently traveled to Chicago, where they competed in and won the Midwest Super-Regional of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Twenty-four teams from throughout the Midwest participated in the super-regional. In the preliminary rounds, Washington University faced Chicago-Kent College of Law, Saint […]

Radiology center puts research scanners in the heart of a hospital

When constructing the 9,000-square-foot Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology’s Center for Clinical Imaging Research inside of Barnes-Jewish Hospital, crews had to lift a massive piece of imaging equipment up to the 10th floor from the outside using a crane.

Ready for a close-up

Photo by Robert BostonState legislators get a tour of the Center for Clinical Imaging Research at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

Sam Fox School to host symposium on ‘Blackness’ March 6

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will host a daylong symposium on “Architecture, Art and the Experience of Blackness” Thursday, March 6, in Steinberg Auditorium. The symposium will bring together more than a dozen speakers whose creative and scholarly works intersect with issues of race and identity.

Center for the Humanities announces Faculty Fellows

The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences has announced its Spring 2009 Faculty Fellows. The three recipients are: Guinn Batten, Ph.D., associate professor of English; Andrea Friedman, Ph.D., associate professor of history and Women & Gender Studies; and Jennifer Kapczynski, Ph.D., assistant professor of German, all in Arts & Sciences.

University earns ‘A’ in campus safety report

Washington University earned an “A” in a recent Reader’s Digest report about the safety of college campuses in the United States. The University was ranked eighth out of 135 institutions surveyed.

Practicing information retrieval is key to memory retention

Learning something once — like the fact that berg means mountain in German — and studying it over and over again may do little to help you remember it in the future. The key to future recall, suggests a new study from Washington University, is how often over time you actively practice retrieving that information from memory.