Biofilms may be responsible for recurring bladder infections
Researchers’ findings offer an explanation for recurrent urinary tract infections and why the body’s defenses or antibiotic treatments often don’t cure them.
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A learning opportunity: New Student Orientation
The Class of 2007 has barely set foot on campus, and these students already have homework. Fortunately, it’s more stimulating than it is stressful. A new initiative for New Student Orientation 2003, which runs through Aug. 26, is a program called “Faculty Perspectives,” which gives freshmen the opportunity to engage in a lively discussion with […]
Picturing our Past
Professor and Chief of Surgery Fred T. Murphy performs the first operation, an appendectomy, at Barnes Hospital on Dec. 14, 1915. Five years earlier, the School of Medicine, which was established in 1891, had entered into an agreement with Barnes Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital that allowed the medical school to conduct clinical research […]
Don’t drop the ball on test scores
David KilperMiddle-school mathematics teachers met this summer to strengthen curricula thanks to the University’s Science Outreach program.
Hollywood comes to St. Louis
Joe AngelesRick Larsen served as athletic trainer on the set of a soccer movie that was filmed in St. Louis this summer.
WUSTL selected to participate in Kauffman Campuses Initiative
Washington University is among 15 universities across the country selected by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, Mo., to participate in its “Kauffman Campuses Initiative,” a new program aimed at making entrepreneurship education a common and accessible opportunity campus-wide. The Kauffman program builds on an emerging trend at colleges and universities — expanding […]
U.S. News rankings WUSTL joins nation’s top 10
Consistently ranked among America’s 20 best national universities, the University is now tied with Dartmouth College for ninth place in undergraduate programs.
Unveiling insulin insights
Good science requires knowing when to drop bad ideas, explains Michael M. Mueckler, Ph.D., professor of cell biology and physiology. “You may have worked on something for two or three years,” he says. “But at some point, you have to look at the long series of results, use the data to evaluate your original hypothesis […]
U.S. News Ranks Washington University in Top 10
Washington University in St. Louis – consistently ranked among America’s 20 best national universities – is now ranked in the top 10. The university is tied with Dartmouth College for ninth place in undergraduate programs among the nation’s best national universities, according to U.S. News & World Report magazine. It is the highest-ranked national university in the Midwest.
Washington University in St. Louis, Monsanto Co., awarded patent for technology that creates disease-resistant crops
Washington University in St. Louis and Monsanto Co., Creve Coeur, Mo., have been issued patent 6,608,241 by the United States Patent Office. The patent is for a technique that protects crops from devastating viral diseases that currently threaten or harm many important food crops. The inventors are Roger Beachy, Ph.D., president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and professor in the department of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University, and Robert T. Fraley, Ph.D., Monsanto chief technology officer and former Monsanto research scientist Stephen G. Rogers.