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Photo by Kevin LowderArchitecture graduate students work on a shelter on the Ruth Park Golf Course in University City, a class project in a fall graduate design/build studio led by Carl Safe, professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Arthur M. Lucas, clinical studies adviser at the School of Medicine from 1996-1998, died Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009.

School of Medicine researchers have received a five-year, $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study heart failure in diabetic patients.

A team of psychiatric researchers found an antidepressant drug improved anxiety symptoms and quality of life in older adults with anxiety disorder.

Jennifer K. Lodge, Ph.D., has been named associate dean for research at the School of Medicine effective Feb. 1.

School of Medicine obesity researchers are recruiting families for an online program aimed at young children that targets healthy eating and physical activity.

Eugene R. Kilgen Jr., former executive director of the Washington University Medical Center Redevelopment Corp., died Jan. 17, 2009, at Conway Manor in Creve Coeur. He was 71.

Graduate students from all fields in the humanities and social sciences are invited to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship and two graduate student dissertation fellowships awarded to the Center for the Humanities by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminars program.

Do you have a colleague on staff that goes above and beyond to help students, faculty or fellow staff members? Help WUSTL recognize that employee’s efforts by nominating him or her for the Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award. Nominations are due Feb. 20.

Build-A-Bear Workshop founder and CEO, Maxine Clark, will respond to questions about entrepreneurship in today’s economy at the 5 p.m. Assembly Series talk on Thursday, February 5 in Graham Chapel. The event is co-sponsored by the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and the Olin School of Business, as well as several organizations outside the University. Following the discussion at 6:15 p.m., Clark and Ken Harrington, the center’s managing director, will present the Olin Cup and a cash prize to the winning student team.