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The University’s updated Web site recently went online, replacing the previous design that had been used for about three years. Visit the page at wustl.edu.

School of Medicine researchers suggest that eating less protein may help protect against certain cancers that are not directly associated with obesity. Lean people on a long-term, low-protein, low-calorie diet or regular endurance exercisers have lower levels of growth factors and hormones linked to cancer.

The policy, recently reviewed by the University Council and formally adopted by the Board of Trustees, is the result of a consensus-building process that started last spring.

WUSTL has received an Award of Excellence from the Health Improvement Institute for the merger of its multiple Institutional Review Boards.

Fuel-efficient technologies and vehicles from General Motors Corp. will be discussed in a program from 3-5 p.m. Jan. 25 in Whitaker Hall. Following the program, vehicles will be available for test drives.

Stephen H. Legomsky, J.D., D.Phil., has been named the John S. Lehmann University Professor. The new professorship was created through a charitable trust established by the late John Lehmann, a distinguished alumnus, lawyer and University trustee for more than 20 years.

Costas Azariadis, Ph.D., joins the Department of Economics in Arts & Sciences as professor. Azariadis earned a Ph.D. in 1975 from Carnegie Mellon University and has been affiliated with Brown University and the universities of Pennsylvania and California, Los Angeles. He was tenured in 1977 and promoted to full professor in 1983, both at Penn. […]

Leonard Berg, founder and former director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, died Monday, Jan. 15, following a stroke. His early work formed the foundation for the systemized assessment of dementia and detection of early onset of Alzheimer’s disease now in common use.

In remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Society of Black Student Social Workers at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work will host a “Financial Freedom Semnar: Achieving Economic Independence Through Education,” from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Jan. 20 in Brown Hall.

Joseph T. Strong, a research engineer in the Genome Sequencing Center at the School of Medicine, died Saturday, Dec. 23, 2006.