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Photo by Ray MarklinSchool of Medicine students learn belly dancing from instructor Penny Moskus as part of a week’s worth of events emphasizing a healthy life.

Photo by Whitney CurtisITeach 2010, a biennial event at which WUSTL faculty can gather to share insights on teaching and to learn about new teaching methods and technology, will take place Jan. 14, 2010, in Seigle Hall.

A memorial service for Lee Nelken Robins, Ph.D., will be held at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 16, 2010, in Graham Chapel.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton received the Right Arm of St. Louis Award from the St. Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association (RCGA) Jan. 21 at the 173rd RCGA annual meeting and dinner at the Chase Park Plaza. A video honoring the WUSTL chancellor produced by the RCGA was recently released.

The same oil used on the Danforth Campus to make french fries is powering a truck near you. Used vegetable oil from WUSTL Dining Services kitchens is being reused as biodiesel in a dining services vehicle on campus.

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was one of the great self-made men of 18th-century Europe. Trained as a watchmaker, he rose through the ranks of French nobility to become a successful inventor, businessman, publisher and diplomat, even supplying weapons and provisions to American revolutionaries. Yet Beaumarchais probably is best remembered for his semi-autobiographical Figaro plays, two […]

A Siteman Cancer Center patient has established a multiple myeloma research fund in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Oncology.

Photo by Robert BostonThe first- and second-year class presidents at the School of Medicine donned chef hats Nov. 18 to make pasta entrees for Shell Cafe diners.

Patients with different genetic variations respond well to combination asthma treatment, School of Medicine research shows.

School of Medicine researchers found that highly targeted radiation therapy improves survival and lessens treatment-related complications in cervical cancer patients.