Author: Neil Schoenherr

Photo by Joe AngelesMasonry workers check to make sure the individual nameplate blocks are level before applying mortar between the seams on the new monument proclaiming the Danforth Campus. Each limestone block, obtained from an Indiana quarry, weighs 500 pounds. This monument, reflecting the Hilltop Campus’ name change, sits at Skinker and Forsyth boulevards.

In contrast to claims that children are being overmedicated for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), School of Medicine researchers have found that many kids with ADHD are not receiving treatment. In fact, almost half of the children — within a 1,610-member study group — who might have benefited from ADHD drugs were not getting them.

The grant benefits faculty by bringing in sophisticated students who are able to generate increasingly varied research.

WUSTL is ranked 12th for undergraduate programs among the nation’s best 248 national universities by U.S. News & World Report.

Orientation 2006 will allow freshmen to meet the faculty and staff members and current students who will help shape their WUSTL experience.

Frank C.P. Yin, Ph.D., Dewey Holten, Ph.D., Guy Genin, Ph.D., and more…

With all of the construction happening on the Hilltop Campus, pedestrians are urged to take alternate, safer routes.

The Children’s Discovery Institute, which will begin research later this year, named an executive director and scientific director.

On Aug. 7, Metro made the announcement that nearly everyone has been waiting for: The Cross County Extension is complete and will be open for transit Aug. 26. Given the anticipation of the eight-mile extension, it would seem that a celebration would be in order, and both the University and Metro are planning to deliver. The University will host a Grand Opening Celebration from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Aug. 26 in the parking lot just outside Uncas A. Whitaker Hall. Planned activities include a miniature train ride, arts and crafts, music and refreshments.

Patrick WinterIn laboratory tests, one very low dose of a drug was enough to have an effect on notoriously tenacious artery-clogging plaques. What kind of drug is that potent? It’s not so much the drug itself as how it was delivered. Fumagillin — a drug that can inhibit the growth of new blood vessels that feed atherosclerotic plaques — was sent directly to the base of plaques by microscopically small spheres called nanoparticles developed by School of Medicine researchers.