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A transplant procedure by School of Medicine researchers cured rats’ diabetes without the need for risky immune-suppression drugs.

Ryan’s debut novel — Send Me — was published earlier this year.

Photo by David Kilper

At its annual meeting this summer in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the Society for Economic Botany honored Memory Elvin-Lewis, Ph.D., adjunct professor of Microbiology and Ethnobotany at the School of Medicine; and Walter H. Lewis, Ph.D., professor emeritus of biology in Arts & Sciences “in recognition of outstanding achievement, research, and service to the field of economic botany.”

In light of two recent cases at Wheaton College in Illinois, Student Health Services is recommending that students review their mumps immunization history to make certain that they have received two doses of MMR vaccine or have had a blood test that indicates mumps immunity.

The state tuition savings program is included in the WUSTL benefits package.

The state tuition savings program is included in the WUSTL benefits package.

Knowing that the cancer is likely to spread quickly from the eye to the liver may allow for earlier, preventive treatments in high-risk patients.

Visitors walking up the Brookings Hall steps have a new sight greeting them just before passing through the archway to the Danforth Campus — a plaza, complete with benches, a fountain and a planter.

Jacob Schaefer, Ph.D., the Charles Allen Thomas Professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $420,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Solid-State NMR Analysis of Chain Packing and Dynamics in Polycarbonates.” … Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D., the Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $212,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Synthetic Methodology Development, Utilizing the Physical and Chemical Manipulation of Discrete Nanoscale Objects.” … Luis H. Zayas, Ph.D., the Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor of Social Work, has received a five-year, $1,733,337 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for research titled “Sociocultural Processes in Latina Suicide Attempts.” … Elliot L. Elson, Ph.D., the Alumni Endowed Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, was named to the 2007 class of Society Fellows by the Biophysical Society for his pioneering and influential work in biophysics and for significantly extending the understanding of the dynamics of biological macromolecules, cells and tissues; and for his development of novel techniques to study these systems. … Jane Phillips-Conroy, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and in the Department of Anthropology, has received grants from the Leakey Foundation and the National Geographical Society to undertake field research on hybrid baboons of eastern and central Zambia (2006-07) and funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research for a conference entitled “Evolutionary Anthropology at the Interface”, to be held in New York in 2007.