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A School of Medicine study will look at the effects of combining exercise training with hormone therapy to improve physical function in older men.

This month, WUSTL will host the national leadership training seminar for Kesher, the campus program of the Union for Reform Judaism, as well as the national convention for the National Union of Jewish LGBTIQQ Students, a group which seeks to “empower our communities and ourselves through education, support and outreach.”

Margaret E. “Peggy” Kremmel, a tax accountant in the tax department, died Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007, at her home in Columbia, Ill., of heart failure. She was 49.

The men’s and women’s basketball teams each earned a bid to the 2007 NCAA Tournament with victories against the University of Chicago Feb. 24 at the Field House. The tournament begins March 2, when the men’s team hosts the NCAA Regionals.

University Libraries is asking faculty, staff and students to complete an online survey to evaluate the Libraries’ collections, services and facilities.

This spring’s free Saturday Science lecture series is offered at 10 a.m. the first four Saturdays in March in Room 201 of Crow Hall.

The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space. Robert Walker, Ph.D., joins the Department of Political Science and the Program in Applied Statistics and Computation, both in Arts & Sciences, as assistant professor. He earned a doctorate in political science from the University of Rochester in 2005. His general research interests are political methodology, international relations and political economy. A peripheral research project examines the political economy of European football (American soccer) with a focus on industrial organization and the intertwined national and European regulation of sport. Ignacio Miguel Sanchez Prado, Ph.D., joins the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor, with a joint appointment in international and area studies. He earned a master’s and a doctorate in Hispanic languages and literatures from the University of Pittsburgh. He earned a bachelor’s in literature from Universidad de las Américas-Puebla. Prado is the author of 14 articles on Latin American literature and cultural studies, all in referred journals. He also has published two books, in addition to being an accomplished translator and creative writer. Areas of research include Mexican literary, film and cultural studies, canon theory, world literature theory, Latinamericanist theory and criticism and Latin American film.

The University has added a link to its Web page for easy access to the latest information on the Interstate 64/Highway 40 construction project.

Enrico Di Cera, M.D., has been named the Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics.

Photo by Mary ButkusAward-winning Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah speaks during a question-and-answer session Feb. 14 at the School of Law, as Karen L. Tokarz, J.D., LL.M., professor of law and executive director of the Clinical Education and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) programs, looks on.