William Jay Smith to host two events Oct. 17, 18
William Jay Smith is writing a book about his friendship with classmate Tennessee Williams, the great playwright.
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Convergence and collaboration characterize the Sam Fox School
Photo by Joe AngelesJana Harper, lecturer in book arts in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, leads a course in the Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Studio for the Illustrated Book.Dedicated to the creation, study and exhibition of multidisciplinary and collaborative work, the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts reflects larger developments within art and architecture education.
Trustees discuss strategic plans
The University’s Board of Trustees discussed societal challenges that the University should address in the future, University constituencies and how well they are being served and undergraduate enrollment issues.
Women runners win, while men’s team places fifth
The women’s cross country team took first place out of 29 teams, scoring 79 points at the Border Wars Oct. 7 in Edwardsville, Ill. The men placed fifth out of 30 teams with 222 points.
WUSTL encouraged to participate in Metro study
The survey will assist in determining accurate billing levels and program design.
Obituary: C. Ronald Stephen
C. Ronald Stephen, who retired as chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the School of Medicine in 1980, died Friday, Oct. 6, 2006, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield, Mo., of complications from a recent heart attack. He was 90.
High-energy clamp simplifies heart surgery for atrial fibrillation
This illustration of the Cox-Maze procedure shows the ablation lines in the left atrium.Heart surgeons at the School of Medicine have helped usher in a new era in the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation. Using radiofrequency devices — rather than a scalpel — they’ve greatly shortened the surgery and made it significantly easier to perform. WUSM surgeon Ralph J. Damiano Jr. and colleagues have played a vital role in developing the devices, which deliver high-energy waves to heart tissue and very quickly create scars or ablations.
Teenager moves video icons just by imagination
Photo by David Kilper / WUSTL PhotoResearchers enabled a 14-year-old to play a video game using signals from his brain.Teenage boys and computer games go hand-in-hand. Now, a St. Louis-area teenage boy and a computer game have gone hands-off, thanks to a unique experiment conducted by a team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis. The boy, a 14-year-old who suffers from epilepsy, is the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game, Space Invaders, using only the signals from his brain to make movements.
Experts on aging to address long-term care Oct. 24 at WUSTL’s School of Social Work
University of Minnesota professors Robert L. and Rosalie A. Kane will present “Long-Term Care Shouldn’t Be This Way: Two Perspectives” from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, in the 2nd-floor Lounge of Brown Hall at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work on WUSTL’s campus.
Washington University engineers seek to improve vascular grafts
Photo by David Kilper / WUSTL PhotoNew biomaterials greatly reduce the risk of blood clotting.Biomedical engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed new biomaterials to recruit endothelial cells to the inner surfaces of vascular grafts. Endothelial cells normally line blood vessels and actively protect against blood clotting. Blood clotting on artificial materials is currently so severe that the use of vascular grafts is limited to large diameter vessels. A team led by Donald Elbert, Ph. D., Washington University assistant professor of biomedical engineering, synthesized the new materials. More…