Author: Ken Duenke

Marfan syndrome is almost as common as cystic fibrosis or muscular dystrophy, but doctors sometimes miss its signature traits that include unusual height, long, spindly arms, legs and fingers, a sunken chest and loose jointedness. To improve diagnosis, physicians at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital have established the Marfan Clinic, which has quickly become the largest multidisciplinary in the Midwest for Marfans and related syndromes.

The new Living Learning Center at Tyson Research Center was designed to be one of the greenest buildings in North America. Jonathan Chase, associate professor of biology in the Department of Biology and Environmental Studies in Arts & Sciences and Tyson’s director; and Daniel Hellmuth, principal and co-founder of Hellmuth & Bicknese Architects, L.L.C., will deliver a talk about the Center and its challenges for the Assembly Series at 5 p.m. Thursday, September 24 in Wilson Hall Room 214. The program is free and open to the public.

PaciorkowskiResearchers at the School of Medicine and the University of Chicago have launched what is believed to be the first worldwide, online registry of children with infantile spasms, a severe type of epilepsy that affects babies in the first few months of life.

A quiet leader: M. Kenton King says that he “just wanted to do a good job.”M. Kenton King’s 25-year tenure as dean of Washington University School of Medicine stands as a hallmark in academic medicine. And his influential tenure is still being honored.

A memorial service for Lynn Imergoot, associate director of intramurals and club sports and former women’s tennis coach, is set for 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13, at Graham Chapel.

Photo by Gloria Stukenbroeker”Chef” Mahendra Gupta, Ph.D., dean and the Geraldine J. and Robert L. Virgil Professor of Accounting and Management at Olin Business School, serves burgers to hungry business school students on the first day of classes at the 15th annual Olin Welcome Cookout.

Jessica Jackley understands the power of the personal connection. She discovered it while visiting East Africa to conduct impact evaluation surveys for Village Enterprise Fund. At the same time, her husband, Matt Flannery, was in the field filming interviews with small business entrepreneurs. When they saw firsthand the life-changing power of micro financing, they devoted […]

The Institute for Public Health has appointed 130 campus-wide faculty scholars.

Photo by Joe AngelesNearly 100 scientists from all over the world gathered at WUSTL’s Knight Center Sept. 1 and 2 to discuss whether humble algae might be part of the solution to the problem of global warming in a conference sponsored by I-CARES.

After the print Record went to press this week, Washington University identified the first cases of influenza A among its students based on medical tests completed at the Habif Health & Wellness Center.