Look of WUSTL’s Hilltop Campus changes as it prepares for new ‘Danforth Campus’ name

The look of the Washington University Hilltop Campus is changing as it prepares to name the campus the “Danforth Campus” in recognition of the role that Chancellor Emeritus William H. “Bill” Danforth, the late Elizabeth “Ibby” Gray Danforth, the Danforth family and the Danforth Foundation have played in the evolution of Washington University in St. Louis.

Washington University physicians adopt electronic medical records

Playing the “where’s-the-chart?” game in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery recently became obsolete when the division switched from using paper files to a fully electronic medical record system. The electronic record-keeping system adopted by the cardiothoracic division will be implemented throughout the Washington University Physicians group, a clinical practice group of more than 900 physicians that provides services throughout the region.

Interdisciplinary ‘pathway’ trains new generation of neuroscientists

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded WUSTL a five-year grant for $2.8 million to implement an integrated, interdisciplinary graduate program in the neurosciences that blends neuroscience, psychology and biomedical engineering. In the Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (CCSN) Pathway, doctoral students design and implement their own cross-cutting, innovative brain science projects.

Workers install Danforth Campus sign

Photo by Joe AngelesMasonry workers check to make sure the individual nameplate blocks are level before applying mortar between the seams on the new monument proclaiming the Danforth Campus. Each limestone block, obtained from an Indiana quarry, weighs 500 pounds. This monument, reflecting the Hilltop Campus’ name change, sits at Skinker and Forsyth boulevards.

Study questions claims children overmedicated for ADHD

In contrast to claims that children are being overmedicated for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), School of Medicine researchers have found that many kids with ADHD are not receiving treatment. In fact, almost half of the children — within a 1,610-member study group — who might have benefited from ADHD drugs were not getting them.

Cultivating opportunities

When Leah Merrifield left St. Louis and her job advising undergraduate business students at the University, she really didn’t expect to be coming back — much less coming back to the same environment she left. But 10 years after accompanying her husband, who took the head basketball coaching job at Emory University, she found herself […]
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