Author: Kelly Wiese Niemeyer

Help the university recognize a staff member who goes above and beyond to help students, faculty or others in the university community by nominating him or her for the Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award. The nomination deadline is March 31.

Capital Innovators, which provides tech startups with seed funding and mentorship, announced the six companies that will make up its 2016 spring accelerator class, and half were founded by university students and alumni.

Paul F. Austin, MD, a professor of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, will receive the John W. Duckett Pediatric Research Excellence Award from the American Urology Association’s Urology Care Foundation.

A new Washington University School of Medicine study reveals extensive antibiotic resistance in the gut bacteria of premature infants. The researchers say these findings support the push to minimize routine use of antibiotics in these patients.

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff in remembrance of former first lady Nancy Reagan, who died March 6.

ARCH Air Medical Services has announced that H. Philip Moy, MD, clinical instructor in emergency medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, will serve as medical director for its Missouri operations.

Images from in and around the Washington University campuses.

The Athletics Complex will close early Friday and Saturday, March 4-5, as the university hosts the first and second rounds of the NCAA Division III women’s basketball tournament. The complex will close at 3 p.m. Friday and at 4:30 p.m. Saturday.

New guidelines from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology loosened some restrictions on athletes with heart conditions. Cardiologists at the School of Medicine led two of the task forces responsible for updating the guidelines.

A new study that included genetic data from more than 190,000 people has identified two genes that, when altered in specific ways, either promote or undermine cardiovascular health. The findings may help guide efforts to design new preventive drugs, similar to the way statins now are prescribed to lower “bad” cholesterol to reduce the risk of heart disease.