Author: Kelly Wiese Niemeyer

Girls with a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations in a gene known as Nf1 are much more likely to lose their vision than boys with mutations in the same gene. And now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis believe they know why: Female sex hormones activate immune cells that damage the nerves necessary for vision.

The son of Washington University Nobel laureates Carl and Gerty Cori has given the Nobel Prizes his parents were awarded in 1947 to the university. They can be seen at the Becker Medical Library.

Rick W. Wright, MD, the Jerome J. Gilden Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been chosen as second president-elect by members of the American Orthopaedic Association.

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff in honor of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth. Glenn died Dec. 8 at age 95.

Surgery can restore vision in patients who have suffered hemorrhaging in the eye after a traumatic brain injury, even if the operation doesn’t occur until several months after the injury, according to a small study from vision researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Bear Necessities will hold its annual holiday sale Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 13 and 14, offering 20 percent off of in-store purchases.

Kelly R. Monk, associate professor of developmental biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a Harry Weaver Neuroscience Scholar Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

The Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences again held a photo contest, seeking works related to students’ anthropology studies or research. The department recently announced the winners.

Question: Which chancellor’s face appeared for a time on the Brookings Hall clock?

Gerald Early’s publication, “The Common Reader” — and the people behind it — were the focus of an article by a Dutch graduate student who visited America looking for entrepreneurial journalism ideas and stumbled across the literary outlet.