The Record

Tate on graduate education’s ‘promising practices’

William F. Tate, dean of the Graduate School, and Lori White, vice chancellor for student affairs, are launching a new symposium Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13-14. The conference aims to share best practices in graduate education.

Making the invisible visible

The Center for Cellular Imaging on the Medical Campus boasts a top-of-the-line cryo-electron microscope. It is capable of vastly magnifying the living world’s tiniest structures, such as bacteria and viruses, keeping the university at the forefront of biomedical research.

The myth of Frankenstein

Nearly 200 years after the publication of “Frankenstein,” we still employ Mary Shelley’s dream vision to interpret and explain our world today — but why? Henry Schvey writes an essay ahead of the “Frankenstein at 200” conference Friday, Oct. 13, in Umrath Hall.

WashU Expert: CHIP demise devastating to millions

Congress has allowed the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to expire, leading to the demise of one of the government’s most successful programs, said Tim McBride, an expert on health economics.