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He spent 20 years in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Susan Dutcher, Ph.D., has been named interim head of the James S. McDonnell Department of Genetics at the School of Medicine.

Director of Athletics John Schael recently unveiled a new symbol and design for all Bears athletics. This marks the third athletic symbol that has been created since WUSTL started using the Bears mascot in 1926.

Junior faculty initiating new cancer research projects are eligible for up to $20,000 in seed money.

Many kids who may benefit from ADHD medications don’t get them.In contrast to claims that children are being overmedicated for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a team of researchers at the School of Medicine has found that a high percentage of kids with ADHD are not receiving treatment. In fact, almost half of the children who might benefit from ADHD drugs were not getting them.

Stephanie Novak devised the “Archosaurian Morphospecies Concept” and presented its details at the Geological Society of America’s annual meeting.

“His value to the University has been well-reflected in his numerous honors and awards,” Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton says.

Hearts with muscle thickening (left) get less energy because of their reduced fat metabolism.”The heart is the single most energy-consuming organ per weight in the body,” says Lisa de las Fuentes, M.D. Under some conditions this energy-hungry organ is prone to defects in its energy metabolism that contribute to heart disease, according to research published in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology by de las Fuentes and colleagues at the School of Medicine.

Patricia Wolff examines a young patient in her pediatric clinic in Cap Haitien, Haiti.Swollen bellies, orange hair, listlessness and dull eyes — these are the traits of child malnutrition in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and where roughly one of every three children is chronically malnourished. To try to change that statistic, Patricia Wolff, associate clinical professor of pediatrics, founded Meds & Food for Kids in 2004.

How would you remember this strange image?A psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis is shedding new light on strategies people use to learn and then remember images, showing that some techniques are more effective than others. Brenda Kirchoff, Ph.D., WUSTL research associate in psychology in Arts & Sciences, used functional magnetic reasonance imaging to identify four major learning and memory strategies that range from visual to verbal, each relying on different parts of the brain. The findings eventually may help provide behavioral modification treatments for individuals with memory impairment, including adults afflicted with age-related memory loss and early onset Alzheimer’s disease.