Author: Ken Duenke

The next-generation DNA sequencer acquired by the University represents only the second installation of this new instrument anywhere in the world.

The George Warren Brown School of Social Work honored three individuals with Outstanding Alumni Awards at the 2005 Outstanding Social Work Awards Banquet May 12 at the Forest Park Visitor Center. The school also presented an Outstanding Faculty Award to Mark R. Rank, Ph.D., the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare. Outstanding Alumni Awards were presented to the Rev. Cynthia S. Bumb, Ruth Greene Richardson and Frank S. Seever.

She did a practicum as an adviser with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Regional Office in Thailand.

Scientists have learned that a temporal “window of opportunity” was critical to their earlier successes in treating diabetic rats with embryonic pig tissues.

After this issue, the Record will phase into its monthly summer publication schedule. Look for our next issue in June.

Come enjoy music, games, prizes and Ted Drewes at the School of Medicine’s Employee Appreciation Picnic.

“He often takes the unpopular view and stance, but he never backs down,” friend and classmate Whitney McGuire says.

GephardtRichard A. Gephardt, former U.S. House minority leader, will give the 2005 Commencement address to some 2,500 graduating students at Washington University in St. Louis. The university’s 144th Commencement will begin at 8:30 a.m. May 20 in Brookings Quadrangle. During the ceremony, Gephardt will also receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.

Adolescence can be a trying time for the whole family.Adolescence is characterized by dramatic physical changes as young people grow from childhood to physical maturity. During adolescence, we gain 50 percent of our adult weight and 20 percent of adult height while going through puberty and developing the ability to reproduce. With so many physical and emotional changes occurring at the same time, Washington University adolescent medicine researchers at St. Louis Children’s Hospital say it’s important for parents to be prepared for change. They also must be ready to listen to their children at any time, day or night, and do as much as possible to stay involved in their lives.

It’s part of the ninth annual Nationwide Asthma Screening Program; the condition is responsible for nearly 4,500 deaths each year.