Schizophrenia research receives boost
The University has received an $11.6 million grant to fund a Silvio O. Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders.
An ideal physician-scientist
David H. Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D., is having the time of his life. And despite his passion for jazz, this time there’s not a saxophone in sight. The source of Gutmann’s zeal is the School of Medicine’s newly formed interdisciplinary team unified by his scientific crusade: unraveling the mystery of brain tumors in children with neurofibromatosis […]
Osteoporosis patients should be screened for celiac disease
Rates of celiac disease are significantly higher in patients with osteoporosis, according to School of Medicine researchers.
Obituary: Parrott, 77
The former clinical instructor in the School of Dentistry died of leukemia Feb. 20.
Compliance programs offered by research office
Included will be discussions about the financial management of federal funds and project-management requirements.
Healing arts
Photo by Robert BostonSecond-year medical student Shana Kusin admires a panel of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display in the Bernard Becker Medical Library.
Campus Authors: Beata Grant, Ph.D., professor of Chinese and of Religious Studies, both in Arts & Sciences
Her new book is titled The Red Brush: Writing Women of Imperial China.
Obituary: Jackie Wheeler, 75
The wife of Professor Emeritus Burton Wheeler, she died Feb. 25.
Supplier Diversity Initiative flourishes with Marks’ aid
Sandra Marks, a 1983 M.B.A. graduate from WUSTL, became the University’s director of supplier diversity in 1998.
Spring break
The Record will not publish next week due to spring break. Look for our next issue March 18.
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