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A drug already prescribed to shrink benign, enlarged prostates has been shown to reduce the risk of a prostate cancer diagnosis by 23 percent in men with an increased risk of the disease, a large international trial has found. Results were reported April 1 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20499.aspx
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Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton dons a Metro bus costume and participates with students in a March 31 walking dance improvisation outside the Danforth University Center to raise awareness for Proposition A and mass transit. Proposition A, on next Tuesday's ballot in St. Louis County, is a one-half cent sales tax increase to support the operation and expansion of the Metro bus and rail system.
URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20516.aspx
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| Brown School celebrates National Public Health Week
The George Warren Brown School of Social Work is celebrating National Public Health Week April 5-8 with a series of events that is open to the university community.
URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20512.aspx
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The Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis will host a daylong conference titled “State and Local Government Finance Amid Economic Turbulence” beginning at 8 a.m. Friday, April 9, in Simon Hall's May Auditorium. The conference is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20517.aspx
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| Trustees grant faculty promotions, tenure
At recent Board of Trustees meetings, the following faculty members were appointed with tenure, promoted with tenure or granted tenure.
URL: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/20510.aspx
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