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Monster Challenge exhibit reimagines Frankenstein’s monster
Frankenstein created his monster with body parts plundered from morgues and the graveyard. For her monster, student Sarah Adcock employed a less scarce, yet still scary material: wax. “Wax is a...
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‘A big, huge, self-destructive mistake’
From left: Madison Lee as Hiro, Zoe Liu as Sophie, Dwayne McCowan as Da’Ran and Dominic Bottom as James. (All photos: Danny Reise/Washington University) Grandma: I sent you a hundred dollars but you...
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‘Hopeful technology’ could change detection, diagnosis of deadly ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer claims the lives of more than 14,000 in the U.S. each year, ranking fifth among cancer deaths in women. A multidisciplinary team at Washington University in St. Louis has found an...
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Cordell Institute signs ‘Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace’
Washington University in St. Louis’ newly launched Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law has signed on as one of the early signatories of French President Emmanuel Macron’s “Paris Call...
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Parking and Transportation shares alerts, provides updates
The Parking and Transportation team at Washington University in St. Louis is providing important alerts and reminders to the campus community and an update on future plans. The parking facility on the...
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Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior
Slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates under the ocean drag about three times more water down into the deep Earth than previously estimated, according to a first-of-its-kind seismic study that spans...
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New maps hint at how electric fish got their big brains
Helmet-heads of the freshwater fish world, African mormyrid fishes are known for having a brain-to-body size ratio that is similar to humans. But there’s actually a great deal of variation in the size...
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Brain, muscle cells found lurking in kidney organoids grown in lab
Scientists hoping to develop better treatments for kidney disease have turned their attention to growing clusters of kidney cells in the lab. One day, so-called organoids – grown from human stem cells...
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Justin Phillip Reed wins National Book Award for Poetry
Justin Phillip Reed, a 2015 graduate of the MFA Writing Program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry. The award is generally...
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Engineers discover a new law of light absorption
Soot belches out of diesel engines, rises from wood- and dung-burning cookstoves and shoots out of oil refinery stacks. According to recent research, air pollution, including soot, is linked to heart...
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Board of Trustees grants faculty appointments, promotions
At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting Oct. 5, the following faculty were appointed with tenure or promoted with tenure, effective that day. Appointment with tenure John...
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MRI scans shows promise in predicting dementia
One day, MRI brain scans may help predict whether older people will develop dementia, new research suggests. In a small study, MRI brain scans predicted with 89 percent accuracy who would go on to...
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Probiotics no help to young kids with stomach virus
Children with stomach viruses increasingly are given probiotics to ease symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea. But a major U.S. study led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that...
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Alcohol dependence, psychiatric disorders share genetic links
In the largest study of genetic factors linked to alcohol dependence, an international team of researchers identified a gene known to affect risk and determined that many other genes also contribute to...
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AAAS names 11 Washington University faculty as fellows
Eleven faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis — the most in a decade-and-a-half — are among 416 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),...
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‘What is dance?’
“Shadows,” a new work by nationally renowned choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess, will be featured as part of “PastForward,” the 2018 Washington University Dance Theatre concert. (Photos: Jerry...
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How color barrier fell at South’s elite private schools
In 1963, as public school desegregation battles raged across the South, three of the nation’s most prominent black leaders — Martin Luther King Jr., Julian Bond and Ralph Abernathy — quietly sought to...
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Dating the ‘Cradle’: New timeline sheds light on early human history
SK 48, an almost-complete cranium of an adult Paranthropus robustus, is superimposed on a landscape from the area known as the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa, not far from where it was...
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$20 million gift boosts multiple myeloma research
The blood cancer multiple myeloma takes the lives of about 11,000 Americans each year. While treatment options and life expectancy have improved in recent years, there’s still no cure. That reality has...
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WashU Experts on the Climate Assessment
Scientists agree that it is no longer reasonable to assume the future will resemble the past, as far as Earth’s climate is concerned. The fourth National Climate Assessment, released Nov. 23, is clear:...
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