Month: December 2016

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff in honor of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth. Glenn died Dec. 8 at age 95.

The 21st Century Cures Act, sweeping mental health legislation passed this week by the U.S. Senate, will provide necessary funding to help those with mental illnesses if signed by President Obama, but should focus more on mental health outcomes of those suffering right now, says a mental health expert at Washington University in St. Louis.

Surgery can restore vision in patients who have suffered hemorrhaging in the eye after a traumatic brain injury, even if the operation doesn’t occur until several months after the injury, according to a small study from vision researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Bear Necessities will hold its annual holiday sale Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 13 and 14, offering 20 percent off of in-store purchases.

Greater stress and anxiety resulting from economic insecurity may be at least partly to blame for the U.S. death rate that the government announced Dec. 8 has increased for the first time in a decade, says an expert on poverty and inequality at Washington University in St. Louis.

Kelly R. Monk, associate professor of developmental biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a Harry Weaver Neuroscience Scholar Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

The Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences again held a photo contest, seeking works related to students’ anthropology studies or research. The department recently announced the winners.

Question: Which chancellor’s face appeared for a time on the Brookings Hall clock?

Gerald Early’s publication, “The Common Reader” — and the people behind it — were the focus of an article by a Dutch graduate student who visited America looking for entrepreneurial journalism ideas and stumbled across the literary outlet.

Despite promises made before Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, will be as difficult to outright repeal as it was to pass, says a health economist at Washington University in St. Louis.