Sports

Baseball team hosts NCAA D-III regionals For the second straight season, the baseball team has headed to the NCAA Tournament. The Bears are hosting the six-team Central Regional. WUSTL (34-5), which earned an at-large bid to the Tournament, played No. 4 Aurora University (29-11) May 17, after Record presstime. Softball season ends with split at […]

Edison announces 2006-07 OVATIONS! Series

On the docket are more than a dozen events, ranging from returning favorites to St. Louis and world premieres to the popular ovations! for young people series.

Sports are for everyone

Photo by Bill StoverThe University’s men’s and women’s tennis teams recently sponsored a tennis clinic for Special Olympics athletes in Forest Park.

Natural power

Photo by David KilperSolar panels were recently installed on the roof of Olin Library as a project done through the University’s Committee on Environmental Quality.

Dhanju hopes to be an agent of social change in India

Growing up in 10 states across India, Richa Dhanju saw “immense disparity amongst people and between men and women.” But it wasn’t until she was pursuing an undergraduate degree in philosophy at Lady Sri Ram College for Women in New Delhi that she started examining these differences. “Women’s secondary status and role in the patriarchal […]

Campus Watch

There is no Campus Watch for this issue of the Record.

Computerized atlas highlights ‘plethora’ of changes in brain disorder

Abnormal folding patterns of the cerebral cortex in Williams Syndrome are displayed on a lateral view (left) and midline view (right) of a ‘surface-based’ atlas.A computerized atlas has brought unprecedented sensitivity to the search for brain structure changes in a genetic condition known as Williams syndrome, revealing 33 abnormalities in the folding of the brain’s surface. The disorder, which occurs in 1 in every 20,000 births, impairs visual and spatial skills but preserves musical ability and sociability.

Challenges for dollar, euro in global economy is focus of St. Louis conference, May 25

What challenges does globalization present for industrialized economies, such as the United States and the European Union? How will fluctuations in dollar and euro exchange rates affect economic growth, inflation and interest rates? Will globalization influence the role of the dollar and the euro in international financial systems? These are a few of the questions to be explored May 25 as high-ranking international finance policymakers from the European Union and the United States join scholars for a conference on “The Euro and the Dollar in a Globalized Economy” at Washington University in St. Louis.