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Researchers have found a significant increase in the risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children with certain genes whose mothers smoked during pregnancy.

Photo by Mary ButkusJeannie Chan, a 2008 MBA candidate, discusses her research with representatives from General Electric Co. at the International Business Outlook Conference (IBOC) April 20 at the Olin School of Business. This year’s conference showcased several Olin MBA students who have provided leadership in finding solutions for global institutions.

Courtesy Photo(From left) Julie Margenthaler, M.D.; Elizabeth Fialkowski, M.D., a surgical resident; and Lola Fayanju, a fourth-year medical student, practice installing a central line, used to give treatments such as chemotherapy, antibiotics and intravenous fluids and feeding, into a simulated patient during one of the labs in the Accelerated Skills Preparation for Surgical Internship course.A new School of Medicine course is designed to prepare students planning to enter a surgical subspecialty.

Photo by David KilperJill Edwards, project manager in the University’s administrative offices, receives a 2007 Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Award April 19 at Whittemore House from W. Edwin Dodson, M.D., associate vice chancellor and associate dean for admissions and for continuing medical education and professor of neurology and of pediatrics at the School of Medicine.

Four alumni of the John M. Olin School of Business received Distinguished Alumni Awards April 19 at the school’s annual dinner at The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis. Mahendra R. Gupta, Ph.D., dean of the business school, presented the Dean’s Medal at the same dinner. This year’s alumni award recipients are David Becker (MBA ’89), Carl Casale (EMBA ’92), Barbara Ann Feiner (MBA ’83) and Steven Stull (BSBA ’81, MBA ’85); W. Patrick McGinnis (MBA ’72) was awarded the Dean’s Medal. More…

Shirley Lute, a 77-year-old victim of domestic violence, will be released from prison thanks to the efforts of the School of Law’s Civil Justice Clinic and Jane Aiken, J.D., the William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law and director of the clinic.

Senior Jonathan Garst Orozco has been named winner of the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences Spector Award, presented annually in memory of Marion Smith Spector, a 1938 graduate of the University.

The women picked up their eighth straight — and 11th overall — UAA outdoor team title April 22.

Photo by Mary Butkus(From left) Lorraine Gnecco; her husband, Stephen H. Legomsky, J.D., D.Phil.; Ruth Chi-Fen Chen, Ph.D., research associate in the School of Engineering & Applied Science; and her husband, Kent D. Syverud, J.D., dean of the School of Law and the Ethan A.H. Shepley University Professor, at Legomsky’s installation as the inaugural John S. Lehmann University Professor March 26.

The University, one of many universities receiving inquiries from the Office of Attorney General of the State of New York concerning student lending practices — as well as an inquiry from the Missouri Office of Attorney General — has agreed with both the Missouri and New York attorneys general to adopt a code of conduct guiding the University’s relations with private lenders from whom the University’s students and their families seek college financing.