The School of Medicine’s Rupa Patel, MD, and Anne Glowinski, MD, are working with a Bangladeshi organization to help deliver mental health care to Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. Patel also is gathering forensic evidence of violence the Rohingya suffered.
School of Medicine researchers received $10.5 million from the Department of the Army to investigate whether an anti-seizure drug can prevent noise-induced hearing loss when given hours before exposure.
The movement to abolish clock-time changes each spring and fall is growing — and so is the scientific evidence. Experts including Arts & Sciences’ Erik Herzog say perennial standard time, or “wintertime,” is the best and safest option for public health.
Applications are now being accepted for the Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) grants for work on leukemia and pancreatic cancer. SPORE programs are key to the National Cancer Institute’s effort to promote collaborative, interdisciplinary translational cancer research.
Bret Gustafson, of Arts & Sciences, writes in a column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Ameren’s plans for handling coal ash near the Missouri River are bad for the environment and the people nearby.
Shanti Parikh, of Arts & Sciences, led planning for the American Ethnological Society annual spring meeting, which takes place on campus today through Saturday, March 16. The meeting includes a plenary series on “Troubling Ferguson and Beyond.”
Developmental biologists Irving Boime (left) and Douglas Covey, of the School of Medicine, have been named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors. They will be honored in April at the academy’s meeting in Houston.
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Shanti Parikh, of Arts & Sciences, led planning for the American Ethnological Society annual spring meeting, which takes place on campus today through Saturday, March 16. The meeting includes a plenary series on “Troubling Ferguson and Beyond.” 
Developmental biologists Irving Boime (left) and Douglas Covey, of the School of Medicine, have been named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors. They will be honored in April at the academy’s meeting in Houston.