Newsroom Stories

This is the last issue of the Record simultaneously published in print and electronic versions. The Record will go entirely digital in January 2010 to improve timely communication to the University community and to reduce printing and distribution costs.

Photo by Kevin LowderLong lines snaked through the Mallinckrodt Center Dec. 7 as hundreds of students took advantage of free H1N1 flu shots.

A storybook women’s soccer season ended with a 1-0 loss to top-ranked Messiah College in the NCAA Division III championship game Dec. 5. The Bears ran into a juggernaut in Messiah College. The Falcons, who were making their sixth straight trip to the Final Four, outshot WUSTL 16-6 and had a 2-0 advantage in corner […]

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was one of the great self-made men of 18th-century Europe. Trained as a watchmaker, he rose through the ranks of French nobility to become a successful inventor, businessman, publisher and diplomat, even supplying weapons and provisions to American revolutionaries. Yet Beaumarchais probably is best remembered for his semi-autobiographical Figaro plays, two […]

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton received the Right Arm of St. Louis Award from the St. Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association (RCGA) Jan. 21 at the 173rd RCGA annual meeting and dinner at the Chase Park Plaza. A video honoring the WUSTL chancellor produced by the RCGA was recently released.

New School of Medicine research did not find long-term cognitive declines attributable to surgery in a group of older patients.

Patients with different genetic variations respond well to combination asthma treatment, School of Medicine research shows.

School of Medicine researchers found that highly targeted radiation therapy improves survival and lessens treatment-related complications in cervical cancer patients.

School of Medicine scientists are using Alzheimer’s disease research to find new treatments for urinary tract infections.

Photo by Ray MarklinSchool of Medicine students learn belly dancing from instructor Penny Moskus as part of a week’s worth of events emphasizing a healthy life.