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WUSM professor Patrick Lustman meets with a patient.A team of researchers at the School of Medicine has found that an antidepressant medication may reduce the risk of recurrent depression and increase the length of time between depressive episodes in patients with diabetes. Controlling depression in diabetes is important in helping patients manage their blood sugar. As depression improves, glucose levels also tend to improve.

By introducing disorder in the form of forces applied at random to a network of interconnected pendulums, the system became ordered and synchronized.

Featured will be a keynote address by Nicholas Sammond and screenings of the films Duma and Saving Shiloh, the latter of which was shot in St. Louis.

Photo by Joe AngelesAn environmentally friendly picnic table in the Elizabeth Gray Danforth Butterfly Garden was recently dedicated to honor the University’s former first lady.

Alumni award recipients were William Gillula, Lynn Gorguze, Lewis Levey and Lin-Kuei Jackson Ling; Stuart Greenbaum & wife Elaine won the Dean’s Medal.

Funding will be made available over two years for single or multiyear projects through a grant program to be administered & coordinated by the CRIE.

Photo by Kevin LowderEach spring, the dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences recognizes outstanding teaching assistants with a $1,550 cash prize.

Tennis teams head to Division III tournament The men’s and women’s tennis teams are headed to the NCAA Division III Tournament for the seventh consecutive season. The No. 8 men and No. 19 women will travel to Greencastle, Ind., for the NCAA Central Regional May 5-7. The men (18-2) will take on No. 13 Kalamazoo […]

While students first took evening classes at the University in 1854, it wasn’t until 1931 that the night school became “University College.”

A government agency contracted with WUSTL in 1953 to cooperate with two universities in Seoul to develop programs in business administration.