Newsroom Stories

At the annual Founders Day celebration Saturday, Nov. 7, the University’s distinguished faculty and alumni, as well as its best citizens, are being honored by the Alumni Association.

Photo by Lois GreenfieldAt 8 p.m. Nov. 14 and at 2 p.m. Nov. 15, two internationally renowned performance groups return to Edison Theatre to present the rock opera “Remember Me” as part of the 2009-10 OVATIONS Series.

Critic and curator Yve-Alain Bois, Ph.D., a widely recognized expert on 20th century European and American art, will present a lecture titled “Chance Encounters: John Cage, Francois Morellet, Ellsworth Kelly” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in Steinberg Hall Auditorium.

Smoking and tobacco use will be prohibited in University-owned and -managed properties beginning July 1, 2010. To help the WUSTL community prepare for the change, programs and events are continuing to be offered to help students, faculty and staff quit smoking and using tobacco products.

The School of Medicine will be one of seven institutions creating a new national network for sharing information between scientists. A $12.2 million grant from National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) will establish the network, which has been described as “Facebook for scientists.”

Michael R. DeBaun, M.D., has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Mildred Cohn, Ph.D., research associate in biological chemistry from 1949-1960, died Oct. 12, 2009, in Philadelphia. She was 96.

Intensive lifestyle changes aimed at modest weight loss reduced the rate of developing type 2 diabetes in people at high risk for the disease.

School of Medicine vision scientists have identified an intricate process that allows the human eye to adapt to darkness very quickly.

Warren M. Shapleigh, former president of the Ralston Purina Co. and an emeritus trustee of Washington University in St. Louis, died Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009, at McKnight Extended Care. He was 89.