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On Thursday, August 20th, business, faith and health care leaders from across the region will come together at the Family Care Health Center in St. Louis to give their perspective on why federal health care reform is important for Missouri. The speakers, including health care providers, educators, business owners and faith leaders, will each speak for several minutes and then make themselves available to answer media questions following the presentations.

For teens with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their families, the transition to young adulthood may be especially difficult. To better understand this issue and how best to address it, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has awarded a five-year grant to Paul T. Shattuck, Ph.D., assistant professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. “This study will help us one day answer one of the most pressing issues in treating ASD,” said NIMH Director Thomas R. Insel, M.D. “Bridging the gap in health care, service use, and insurance coverage as these young people leave the school systems and enter adulthood may help prevent lapses in behavioral, social, and occupational skills that they and their families have worked so hard to achieve.”

The Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values at Washington University will close, effective June 30, 2010. Many of the programs and work on ethics and human values will transition over the next year to the schools and other parts of the University. The decision comes in the wake of significant shortfalls in […]

More than 1,400 Washington University freshmen will move into the South 40 residence halls on Thursday, Aug. 20. With help from family, friends and upperclassmen, the students will be hauling everything from refrigerators and microwaves to carpets, bicycles and stereo systems into their new homes away from home. Trucks, vans, U-Hauls and station wagons will line the South 40 driveways.

Margaret Bush Wilson, WUSTL trustee emerita, prominent civil rights attorney in the 1960s and the first woman of color to chair the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died Tuesday, Aug. 11, after a short illness. She was 90.

One lane of Kingshighway Boulevard will be closed in each direction between Hospital Plaza and Oakland Avenue between 6:30 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. August 17-21.

A 10 million-square-foot cellular network will be built on the Washington University Medical Center campus this year as part of a new paging system. Sprint and Telecommunications Facilities Corp., the joint School of Medicine- and BJC HealthCare-operated company that supports telecommunications services, will build the network, estimated to be complete in early 2010. More than […]

Margaret Bush WilsonMargaret Bush Wilson, WUSTL trustee emerita, prominent civil rights attorney in the 1960s and the first woman of color to chair the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), died Tuesday, Aug. 11, after a short illness. She was 90.

One lane of Kingshighway Boulevard will be closed in each direction between Hospital Plaza and Oakland Avenue from 6:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. Aug. 27 and 28.

Student Financial Services can help departments locate and hire part-time student workers for the 2009-10 academic year — and, at the same time, help departments stretch their budgets a bit further. During this budget-challenged year, departments hiring eligible federal work-study students will only pay 25 percent of the student’s total earnings. The other 75 percent […]