Author: Neil Schoenherr

The NCAA Division III defending national champion men’s basketball team is ranked No. 1 in the DIII News Preseason Top 25 poll, as announced by the publication’s special Preseason Preview issue. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (No. 2), Capital University (No. 3), Ursinus College (No. 4) and Randolph-Macon College (No. 5) round out the top five. The […]

Slated to be the largest in the biannual event’s four-year history, the fall 2008 Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, in the Danforth University Center.

A memorial service will be held Nov. 2 for Richard D. Todd, Ph.D., M.D., the Blanche F. Ittleson Professor of Psychiatry and director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, who died Aug. 22.

Population growth is driving much of the world’s resource problems, and our political leaders ignore it, says Robert Criss, Ph.D., professor of earth & planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences.

The following incidents were reported to University Police Oct. 8-20. Readers who have information concerning these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. Oct. 8 10:27 a.m. — A person reported his laptop had been stolen while it was left unattended in the library in Anheuser-Busch Hall overnight. 1:17 p.m. — A student reported that his […]

Douglas A. Wiens, Ph.D., professor and chair of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, will head the seismology research team of an ambitious international effort to map and analyze an unknown part of Antarctica. The project is called AGAP (Antarctica’s Gamburtsev Province) after the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, which are the main feature of the region. Wiens, Patrick Shore, computer specialist in earth and planetary sciences, and graduate students David Heizel and Amanda Lough will install 26 seismographs on the frozen surface of central Antarctica, a part of the world that is a geological mystery.

Disadvantaged and minority populations are more likely to be diagnosed with and die from cancer than other groups in the United States. A five-year, $8.6 million grant to Washington University in St. Louis will explore how improved information and referral systems can help eliminate these disparities.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced that WUSTL has received a major commitment from Stephen and Camilla Brauer to help implement the long-range, strategic plan of its School of Engineering & Applied Science.

About one-third of adults in the United States has high blood pressure, but because there are no outward symptoms, many people don’t know they have it. High blood pressure can lead to serious problems such as stroke, heart failure, heart attack and kidney failure. The School of Medicine is hosting free blood pressure screenings and […]

Photo by Robert BostonYarasheski’s skills lead to insights into cardiovascular problems in HIV patients