Author: Elizabeth Erman

Medical school employees can test their fitness and learn about smoking cessation at the Health Happening wellness fair Oct. 28.

The Washington University Medical Center is looking brighter thanks to new light fixtures installed on sidewalks throughout the campus.

The annual Dean’s Update to the School of Medicine will be Oct. 29 from 2-3 p.m., and Nov. 4 from 10-11 a.m. in Connor Auditorium.

Photo by Robert BostonRehan Hasan, a third-year doctoral student in the Program in Physical Therapy, sings songs he wrote about relationships at the student coffeehouse.

M. Kenton King, M.D., former dean of the School of Medicine, died Oct. 15, 2009, at his home in University City. He was 84.

Applications for the K12 Clinical Hematology Research Career Development Program scholars are being accepted through Oct. 19.

Courtesy PhotoThe $235 million BJC Institute of Health at Washington University, the hub for WUSTL’s BioMed 21 initiative, will open in December after two years of construction.

Some pregnant women who have asthma will get extra vitamin D in a study to determine if the vitamin can prevent their children from developing asthma.

Photo by Robert Boston”My Right Self: Transgender Considerations” exhibit is on display at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center at the School of Medicine until Oct. 9.

The Department of Pediatrics has created a Division of Hospitalist Medicine, naming Douglas Carlson, M.D., as its director.