Author: Ken Duenke

A four-star rating from Charity Navigator — the largest independent charity evaluator in America — is the highest score possible. For the fifth consecutive year, Washington University has received a four-star rating, based on an evaluation of two broad areas of financial health.

The Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine is hosting a program on strategies to help patients with treatment resistant depression.

Awards received by Victoria Fraser, Jay Piccirillo and Bradley Evanoff will help the division take a major step forward in educating & training clinical investigators.

The School of Medicine will receive $5.9 million over the course of five years to begin an ambitious and potentially decades-long search.

The finding may help push an old debate about how eye movement is controlled toward resolution & help surgeons better diagnose & treat disorders.

Scientists found they could frequently predict whether a volunteer’s response would be right or wrong before the volunteers even performed an action. More medical news

The rating, based on two broad areas of financial health, indicates the University is committed to fiscal responsibility & sound management practices.

Photo by Robert BostonMedical students honored teachers for distinguished service at the annual teaching awards ceremony at the Eric P. Newman Education Center.

By peering into the minds of volunteers preparing to play a brief visual game, neuroscientists at the School of Medicine have found they can predict whether the volunteers will succeed or fail at the game.

At the Center for Social Development (CSD) in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Michael Sherraden, Ph.D., and his faculty colleagues, staff, and graduate students are dedicating themselves to addressing the root causes of poverty and finding solutions. To this end, CSD has found a partner in the Ford Foundation, a philanthropic organization whose goals include asset building to create better societies.