Author: Ken Duenke

Researchers seeking insights into kidney failure in human infants have located the source of a 30-year-old mystery mutation that causes similar problems in a mouse line.

WeidenbaumMurray L. Weidenbaum, one of the country’s most acclaimed economists and a distinguished Washington University professor for more than 40 years, received the Eliot Society’s highest honor at the 39th annual William Greenleaf Eliot Society dinner on April 26. The event was held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Clayton and included a keynote address by the celebrated Irish singing sensation Ronan Tynan.

Some lung cancer patients — those with conditions that raise the potential for surgical complications — can be at a high risk from a lobectomy. More medical news

There are no campus watch items for this issue of the Record.

The Distinguished Alumni Award recipients will be Alvin Schorr, William Siedhoff & Bernarda Wong; Gautam Yadama & Sima Needleman also will be honored.

Jessica Friedman has been awarded a Morris K. Udall Scholarship, while Andy Schupanitz will receive a $32,000 Beinecke Scholarship for graduate study.

Photo by Kevin LowderPerformers ranging from age 12-18 receive congratulations after “A Concert for Orphans” April 8 in the auditorium of Whitaker Hall.

A memorial service for Justin Allen Yeo will be held at 7 p.m. May 3 on the basketball court on the South 40; it’s open to all members of the University community.

A memorial service for Justin Allen Yeo will be held at 7 p.m. May 3 on the basketball court on the South 40. The rain location is the Mudd House Multipurpose Room. Yeo, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences from Arcadia, Calif., died April 16. The service is open to all members […]

Jim Burmeister was honored April 21-22 after stepping down following 35 years as adviser to the Thurtene Junior Honorary and Thurtene Carnival.