Newsroom Stories

Photo by Robert BostonThe first- and second-year class presidents at the School of Medicine donned chef hats Nov. 18 to make pasta entrees for Shell Cafe diners.

Photo by Whitney CurtisITeach 2010, a biennial event at which WUSTL faculty can gather to share insights on teaching and to learn about new teaching methods and technology, will take place Jan. 14, 2010, in Seigle Hall.

The same oil used on the Danforth Campus to make french fries is powering a truck near you. Used vegetable oil from WUSTL Dining Services kitchens is being reused as biodiesel in a dining services vehicle on campus.

A laboratory connection between Alzheimer’s disease and brain-wasting diseases such as the human form of mad cow disease has moved into the clinic for what is believed to be the first time, manifesting itself in the brains of patients with a rare inherited disorder, new research shows.

An international group of anthropologists offers a new theory about the diffusion of maize to the Southwestern United States and the impact it had. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study, co-authored by Gayle Fritz, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, and colleagues, suggests that maize was passed from group to group of Southwestern hunter-gatherers. These people took advantage of improved moisture conditions by integrating a storable and potentially high-yielding crop into their broad-spectrum subsistence strategy.

Research into the causes and treatment of multiple myeloma has received a significant boost thanks to a gift to the School of Medicine from Harvey and Linda Saligman of St. Louis.

More than half of HIV patients experience memory problems and other cognitive impairments as they age, and doctors know little about the underlying causes. New research from the School of Medicine suggests HIV-related cognitive deficits share a common link with Alzheimer’s-related dementia: low levels of the protein amyloid beta in the spinal fluid.

The WUSM Student Arts Commission is currently accepting submissions for the upcoming Student, Faculty, and Staff Art Show.

Ronald R. King, senior associate dean and professor of accounting at Olin Business School, is available for comment on case before the Supreme Court today: Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead & Watts, LLP, Petitioners v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

Nearly 100 years after the discovery of cosmic rays, a new type of gamma-ray telescope is finally allowing physicists to make images of cosmic-ray nurseries.