Author: Kelly Wiese Niemeyer

WashU Night at the Ballpark will be Sept. 5, when the Cardinals face the San Francisco Giants. Employees who purchase tickets by July 19 or Aug. 22 will be entered in raffles to win autographed baseballs.

Arthur L. Prensky, MD, a professor emeritus of neurology at WashU Medicine, died June 16 after a short illness. He was 94. Prensky was a world authority in metabolic disorders, headache and neurodevelopment.

Mark D. West, a renowned legal scholar and former dean of the University of Michigan Law School, has been appointed provost of Washington University in St. Louis, effective August 1, according to Chancellor Andrew D. Martin.

The Washington University Police Department will conduct its biannual active shooter training exercise July 9 on the South 40 area of the Danforth Campus.

The first sickle cell disease patient in the St. Louis region has been successfully treated by WashU Medicine physicians at St. Louis Children’s Hospital with a gene therapy newly approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

The FDA has given market authorization to a WashU startup’s technology that quickly and accurately maps the sensitive areas in patients’ brains to help neurosurgeons plan safe and effective surgeries.

The Engaged City is seeking three community-based practitioners — such as artists, writers, illustrators, or data scientists — for its Community Fellows in Residence Program. The application deadline is July 16.

A special Commencement photo gallery from WashU.

Susan K. Dutcher, a professor of genetics and of cell biology and physiology at WashU Medicine, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

A new study from WashU Medicine examines the choices healthy research volunteers make when given the opportunity to learn their risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease dementia.