Researchers at the School of Medicine, led by Eric J. Lenze, MD, have received a $15 million grant to study strategies — including exercise, health education, meditation and yoga — aimed at helping older adults prevent or reverse typical age-related cognitive declines.

The Brown School has launched three new joint-degree programs and a dual-degree program with Fudan University to begin this fall, expanding class offerings and learning opportunities both in St. Louis and around the world.

Researchers led by Gregory Storch, MD, have developed a diagnostic test to quickly detect enterovirus D68, a respiratory virus that caused unusually severe illness in children last summer and fall. The outbreak caused infections at an unprecedented rate, with more than 1,000 confirmed cases and 14 reported deaths nationwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Mary Dell Olin Pritzlaff, a trustee emerita of Washington University, died July 18, surrounded by family at her home in Santa Barbara, Calif. She was 85. She served on the university’s Board of Trustees from 1980-2002 and had been a trustee emerita since July 2002.