Author: Neil Schoenherr

The School of Medicine will play a leading role in an international collaboration to sequence the genomes of 1,000 individuals by participating in the ambitious 1,000 Genomes Project, designed to create the most detailed picture to date of human genetic variation and assist in the identification of many genetic factors underlying common diseases.

A review of epidemiological data has found evidence that people who spend fewer years in school may experience a slight but statistically significant delay in the realization that they’re having cognitive problems that could be Alzheimer’s disease. School of Medicine scientists at the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) reviewed data on 1,449 Alzheimer’s patients from […]

WUSTL has moved up three spots on this year’s Peace Corps’ top 25 list of medium-sized schools producing Peace Corps volunteers. With 22 alumni currently serving as Peace Corps volunteers, the University is now ranked 20th overall.

Jarvis A. Thurston, Ph.D., professor emeritus of English and former chair of Washington University’s Department of English in Arts & Sciences, died Monday, Feb. 4, of heart disease at his home in University City. He was 93.

The University has received one of five $3,000 Call to Serve grants from the Partnership for Public Service to promote working in government service.

Political experts with widely opposing views on the civic costs and benefits of negative campaign advertising will debate the merits of mudslinging in a public forum at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The program features discussions by political science professors John Geer, Ph.D., of Vanderbilt University, […]

Photo by Tim ParkerSamuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D., targets infectious disease, helps faculty meet research goals

Thomas De Fer, M.D., James Fehr III, M.D., and Mary Klingensmith, M.D., have received the 2008-09 Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Teaching Fellowships at the School of Medicine. The program enables the fellows to take time from their regular duties to teach clinical medicine to students and residents.

Author, environmentalist and multimedia artist Janet Kauffman, Ph.D., will read from her work at 8 p.m. Feb. 7 for the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences. The talk — part of The Writing Program’s spring Reading Series — is free and open to the public and takes place in Hurst Lounge, Room 201, Duncker Hall. […]

Carla A. Hills, J.D., former U.S. Trade Representative, will deliver the School of Law’s Tyrrell Williams Lecture on “Trade and the 2008 Elections” at 4 p.m. Feb. 7 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom at Anheuser-Busch Hall. Hills also will serve as the law school’s inaugural “Ambassador-in-Residence,” meeting with students, faculty and other community members […]