WUSTL police help ‘warm-up’ St. Louis
The WUSTL Police Department will collect winter coats for disadvantaged St. Louisans to assist the Kurt Warner First Things First Foundation with its annual Warners’ Warm-up coat drive.
Faculty book colloquium to feature Pulitzer Prize-winner
Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist and literary critic Louis Menand will present the keynote address for “Celebrating Our Books, Recognizing Our Authors,” the University’s eighth annual faculty book colloquium, at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in Graham Chapel.
Live@EDU undergraduate student e-mail pilot program to begin in January 2010
More than 550 WUSTL undergraduate students will participate in a pilot program beginning in January 2010 to test the University’s new student e-mail and online service, Microsoft Live@EDU, said Andrew Ortstadt, associate vice chancellor for information services and technology. The University selected Live@EDU to provide e-mail, calendar and Web space to a pilot group of […]
$80 million in stimulus grants awarded to WUSTL
Washington University has been awarded nearly $80 million in funding from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Skills tests like ‘connect the dots’ may be early Alzheimer’s indicator
School of Medicine scientists found that visuospatial skills begin to deteriorate up to three years prior to diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.
Nearly half of all U.S. children will use food stamps, expert says
Holidays and tables full of delicious food usually go hand-in-hand, but for nearly half of the children in the United States, this is not guaranteed, says Mark R. Rank, Ph.D., poverty expert at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
High-precision radiation therapy improves cervical cancer outcomes
School of Medicine researhers have shown that highly targeted radiation therapy improves survival and lessens treatment-related complications in cervical cancer patients. The technique, called intensity-modulated radiation therapy, is widely accepted for treating many cancers of the pelvic region, head and neck, and central nervous system, but its for cervical cancer is not as common.
Art show features family members of WUSM ophthalmologist
An art show starting Nov. 20, 2009 at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center atrium features two painters who are mother and daughter. The artists, Leona Kremen and her daughter Paula Smith, trained at the Maryland Institute of Art and studied with prominent Baltimore modernist Herman Maril.
Washington University awarded $80 million in stimulus grants
Washington University has been awarded nearly $80 million in funding from the 2009 American Recovery and Re-investment Act to support research across a broad range of projects, including cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, renewable energy, diabetes and climate change.
CDC invests in preventative health care for Hispanics at home and in Latin America
The Prevention Research Center (PRC) in St. Louis is launching a multinational research project focused on preventing the leading causes of death in Hispanics in the United States and Latin America.
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