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Last year, Chuck Rickert, a fifth-year student in the M.D./Ph.D. program at the School of Medicine, heard a show about kidney donation on National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation.” One of the callers, a man in his 50s on dialysis, said his blood type did not match any friends or family, and his only option for a new kidney was to wait for something bad to happen to a younger person. The distressed man’s call stuck with Rickert, who eventually decided to anonymously donate one of his own kidneys.

Photo by David KilperBill Witbrodt, director of Student Financial Services, helps make it financially possible for bright, deserving students to get a WUSTL education.

Residents with appropriate training can safely make the decision to administer stroke treatment in emergency cases, a new study shows.

Washington University has awarded five Bear Cub Fund grants totaling $150,000 to support innovative research that shows commercial potential. The grants were awarded to: Zhou-Feng Chen, Ph.D., associate professor of anesthesiology, of psychiatry and of developmental biology; Dan Moran, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering, of physical therapy and of neurobiology; Brian Dieckgrafe, M.D., Ph.D., […]

Photo by Robert BostonStephen Rogers, Ph.D., explains his poster to Solange Landreville, Ph.D., at the Fifth Annual Postdoc Scientific Symposium Feb. 24 in the Eric P. Newman Education Center.

WUSTL will host the 2009 NCAA Division III women’s basketball tournament first and second rounds on Friday and Saturday, March 6 and 7, at the WU Field House.

Photo by Kevin LowderRaphael Njuguna, graduate student in computer science and engineering, describes his research on improving digital camera sensors with improved pixel technology during the 2009 Graduate Student Research Symposium Feb. 28 in the Lab Sciences Building.

As the Record went to press, we were saddened to hear of the death of broadcaster and WUSTL benefactor Paul Harvey, 90. The Record will run a full obituary of Harvey in an upcoming issue.

Photo by David KilperBill Witbrodt, director of Student Financial Services, helps make it financially possible for bright, deserving students to get a WUSTL education.

The No. 8 women’s basketball team will host first- and second-round action of the 2009 NCAA Division III tournament on Friday and Saturday, March 6 and 7. Washington University (21-4) will face Capital University (22-5) in the first round Friday, March 6, at 7 p.m. The winner of that contest takes on the winner of […]