Author: Ken Duenke

Barry Melancon (right), president and CEO of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, speaks about the future of American accounting practices last month in Simon Hall’s May Auditorium at the John M. Olin School of Business.

Speaking at the 146th Commencement ceremony May 18, the host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” told the audience of more than 14,000 that while this year’s some 2,600 graduates have done well and have the world at their feet, one of their real responsibilities is to take care of the world’s children.

A $2.5 million grant will continue the University’s work with local AIDS service organizations and with local health departments to encourage HIV testing.

The Metro Meridian Garage at the Brentwood I-64 MetroLink Station opened June 12.

The School of Law will host a workshop titled “The Effects of Domestic Violence on Children” from 8:30 a.m.-noon July 12 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall.

A $450,000 grant from The Henry Luce Foundation will boost the experiential learning opportunities provided by the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic, through which students provide pro bono legal and technical services to environmental and community organizations.

Arts & Sciences graduate students Jeff Cameron and Megan Daschbach have been chosen to participate in the 57th Meeting of Nobel Laureates July 1-6 in Lindau, Germany.

Scientists probing the details of viral infection have discovered an intriguing surprise: in mice, herpes viruses hijack their host cells’ tools for fixing DNA damage and use those tools to enhance their own reproduction.

An X-ray of a case of scoliosis.Physicians have recognized scoliosis, the abnormal curvature of the spine, since the time of Hippocrates, but its causes have remained a mystery — until now. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and collaborating institutions have discovered a gene that underlies the condition, which affects about three percent of all children. The finding lays the groundwork for determining how the genetic defect leads to the C- and S-shaped curves that characterize scoliosis.

HamvasAaron Hamvas, M.D., a renowned pediatrician in newborn medicine and a leading authority on a lethal infant lung disease, has been appointed the first James P. Keating, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine. Hamvas is medical director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and of Nursery Services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.