Author: Ken Duenke

A popular member of the School of Law faculty for more than 40 years, he taught criminal law, criminal procedure and juvenile law.

The new imaging process should make it easier for researchers to test potential anti-inflammatory drugs in trials.

Photo by Robert BostonOf the 119 students in the School of Medicine’s Class of 2006, 29 will stay in St. Louis to complete their residencies at WUSTL-affiliated hospitals.

He died in Miami Feb. 3 after a long illness; his research interest was in the myelination and de-myelination of the central nervous system.

It will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to spotlight the role of women, feminism and feminists in building and rebuilding states and societies.

Researchers attempting to reproduce a controversial 2003 mouse experiment suggestive of a cure for type 1 diabetes have found evidence that the experimental procedure does eliminate diabetic symptoms in a small fraction of the mice exposed to it. However, scientists from the School of Medicine found no signs that the procedure was working in the manner reported by the group of scientists at Harvard University who originated it.

Robert E. Hegel, Ph.D., professor of Chinese in Asian and Near Eastern Languages & Literatures in Arts & Sciences, became the first holder of the Liselotte Dieckmann Professorship in Comparative Literature on Feb. 2 at a ceremony in Holmes Lounge.

Center for Advanced Medicine, home of Siteman Cancer CenterThe Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the School of Medicine has been accepted into The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), an alliance of the world’s leading cancer centers. The designation will allow Siteman Cancer Center access to and the ability to further improve cancer care guidelines.

Celebrated fiction writer and essayist William H. Gass will present the John and Penelope Biggs Residency in the Classics Lecture for the Assembly Series at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 30 in Graham Chapel. The lecture, titled “Metaphor,” will explore the true essence of metaphors and their connection to language and creativity.

Anthropologist Eugenie Scott has been involved with some of the high-profile legal trials about the teaching of evolution in the classroom. She is the executive director of the National Center for Science Education. She speaks on intelligent design at the Assembly Series on March 22.