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Senior Class President Reid Petty passes down his love of Washington...
Senior Class President Reid Petty (right) and the Senior Class Council present Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton with a photograph of the chancellor riding the Budweiser hitch to the site of the October 2016...
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Jackson installed as Rosenzweig Associate Professor
Joshua Jackson has been installed as the Saul and Louise Rosenzweig Associate Professor of Personality Science at Washington University in St. Louis. A ceremony and reception were held March 21 in...
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New imaging technique aims to ensure surgeons completely remove cancer
Of the quarter-million women diagnosed with breast cancer every year in the United States, about 180,000 undergo surgery to remove the cancerous tissue while preserving as much healthy breast tissue as...
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The Flight of Icarus
And having lifted himself up on his wings he flies before and he fears for his comrade. Just as a bird who has led forth a tender offspring from a high nest into the air — From “Daedalus and Icarus,”...
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A decade of lasting lessons
On the eve of Washington University in St. Louis’ 156th Commencement, featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Anna Quindlen, we look back at a decade of wise words from some of America’s greatest...
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Washington University Commencement is 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 19
WHAT: Washington University’s 156th Commencement. The university will award 3,245 degrees to 3,089 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. The university also will bestow honorary degrees on...
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Cancer drug may help patients with severe asthma
A small clinical trial suggests that some patients with severe asthma may benefit from treatment with a targeted cancer drug. The study, conducted in part at Washington University School of Medicine in...
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Class of 2017 poised to start a new chapter
Washington University will award degrees to more than 3,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional degree candidates during its 156th Commencement May 19. After years of hard work studying,...
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‘Take the leap,’ Quindlen tells Class of 2017
Anna Quindlen admitted she barely remembered the words spoken by acclaimed anthropologist Margaret Mead at her own commencement from Barnard College in 1974. “Everyone is here for the sake of just a...
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Olin research examines links between minimum wage changes, employment
While the federal minimum wage rate stands at $7.25 an hour, actual pay for low wage workers varies across the country because some states and cities have adopted higher wages than the...
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Death by volcano?
Anyone concerned by the idea that people might try to combat global warming by injecting tons of sulfate aerosols into Earth’s atmosphere may want to read an article in the May 1 issue of the journal...
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Jackson receives Gloria W. White service award
Gloria White award recipient Phyllis Jackson joins Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton on the Edison Theatre stage on Staff Day May 22. (Photo: Mary Butkus/Washington University) Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton...
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A ring to bind them
The active component of the wonder drug penicillin and related antibiotics such as the cephalosporins is an “enchanted ring,” called the β-lactam ring. Antibiotics that include these rings are arguably...
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Study urges aggressive treatment for sepsis
As a resident in emergency medicine nearly two decades ago, Tiffany M. Osborn, MD, became determined to prevent people from dying of sepsis, an unruly, fast-acting, potentially fatal condition. “I’d...
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Anne and John McDonnell receive Harris award
The St. Louis community has benefited greatly by the good works of the late Jane and Whitney Harris. When Jane died in 1999, she left a bequest to establish the annual Jane and Whitney Harris St....
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What a locust’s nose taught engineers about monkeys’ ears
Is there an opposite for the smell of a rose? Is silence simply the absence of sound? The results of a recent study by a team of biomedical engineers in the School of Engineering & Applied Science...
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Drug believed to reduce postoperative pain and delirium does neither
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/episodes/Ket-Lancet%20.mp3 To blunt postoperative pain and reduce the need for opioid drugs following surgery, anesthesiologists often give patients low doses of...
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Mind-controlled device helps stroke patients retrain brains to move paralyzed...
Stroke patients who learned to use their minds to open and close a device fitted over their paralyzed hands gained some control over their hands, according to a new study from Washington University...
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Statement from Chancellor Wrighton regarding President Trump’s decision to...
On behalf of the Washington University in St. Louis community, I wish to communicate our disappointment that President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the 2015 Paris Agreement, the landmark...
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Washington University selected for $1 million HHMI Inclusive Excellence...
Washington University in St. Louis is one of 24 schools selected to receive $1 million grants as part of a new HHMI initiative to help colleges and universities foster success in science for all...
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