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The University has raised $602,440 in its United Way of Greater St. Louis campaign, surpassing its stated goal of $600,000.

Photo by Whitney CurtisNewsweek editor Jon Meacham, who was in St. Louis Nov. 8 to speak at the annual Founders Day gala, shakes hands with senior Ben Sales, Student Life senior news editor, after an informal session greeting students in Wilson Hall.

The genome of a humble worm may provide clues to the evolution of parasitic worms, including those that infect humans, School of Medicine researchers found.

Scientists have shown for the first time that neuroprosthetic brain implants may be able to help stroke patients with partial paralysis.

On Dec. 15, a few weeks ahead of schedule, the Missouri Department of Transportation will open the western half of the I-64 project and close the eastern half from Hanley Road to Kingshighway until December, 2009.

Donald Finkel, poet-in-residence emeritus of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008, of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at the Schuetz Manor in St. Louis County. He was 79. Finkel joined the Washington University community in 1960 with his wife, the late poet Constance Urdang. He was the author of more than a dozen books of poetry. An obituary will appear in the Dec. 4 issue of the Record.

A Weight Watchers at Work program is beginning Nov. 17 on the Danforth Campus. The program will run for 12 weeks, through February 2, 2009.

A new weekly “Tuesday Tea at 3” program begins Tuesday, Nov. 18, in the Danforth University Center (DUC). Faculty, staff and students are invited to come to the DUC each Tuesday afternoon from 3-5 p.m. for free tea, snacks and conversation. “I think this will be a great opportunity for members of the campus community […]

The “Wonderful Wednesdays” sale Nov. 19 at the Bear Necessities store in Wohl Student Center will be the last before Thanksgiving.

In their efforts to understand the cells involved in normal bowel function, researchers at the School of Medicine have found that a common nutrient — Vitamin A, or its metabolite, retinoic acid — has a direct effect on the development of nerve cells, or neurons, in the bowel wall that control gastrointestinal function.