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'Tribute to a man, a family and a foundation'
Campus name to honor Danforths
Feb. 23,
2006 -- In recognition of the role that William H. (Bill) Danforth, life trustee and chancellor emeritus, his family and the Danforth Foundation have played in the evolution of Washington University in St. Louis, the Hilltop Campus will be renamed the Danforth Campus, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. An official recognition ceremony will be held Sept. 17, when the new name takes effect.
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Eat your broccoli
Researchers pave way for higher levels of folate
Aug. 5,
2004 --
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| WUSTL researchers are investigating how to infuse grains with folate typically found in green vegetables such as broccoli. |
A team of researchers led by Karel Schubert, Ph.D., affiliate research biology professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, recently achieved a breakthrough to enhance levels of folate, a vitamin essential to human and animal health, in the model plant Arabidopsis.
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Top honors
Four elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
May 17,
2004 -- Carl Frieden, Jeffrey I. Gordon, John F. McDonnell and Carl Phillips can now stand proudly beside Ben Franklin, George Washington, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. Those four from Washington University in St. Louis have joined those four from history as being elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Cutting corn down to size
Project means major avance in sequencing large genomes
March 3,
2004 --
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| A team of scientists reports a major advance in seqencing large genomes. |
A team of scientists that includes a Washington University in St. Louis biologist, has evaluated and validated a gene-enrichment strategy for genome sequencing and has reported a major advance in sequencing large genomes. The team showed a six-fold reduction of the effective size of the Zea mays (maize or corn) genome while creating a four-fold increase in the gene identification rate when compared to standard whole-genome sequencing methods.
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Colloquium on childhood lead poisoning leads off environmental series
Continuing the strong start in the fall, the spring Environmental Initiative colloquia explore the role research universities can play in addressing environmental concerns.
Jan. 28,
2004 -- Continuing Washington University's yearlong Sesquicentennial Environmental Initiative, the final set of colloquia will cover significant issues such as tackling childhood lead poisoning, building a sustainable environment in plant sciences, understanding the effect of aerosols in our air; creating ecological and economically viable structures; and understanding how research universities can impact environmental education and public policy.
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Patent-protected plants
Washington University in St. Louis, Monsanto Co., awarded patent for technology that creates disease-resistant crops
Aug. 20,
2003 -- 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.
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