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Holidays and tables full of delicious food usually go hand in hand, but for nearly half of the children in the United States, this is not guaranteed. “49 percent of all U.S. children will be in a household that uses food stamps at some point during their childhood,” says Mark R. Rank, Ph.D., poverty expert at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. “Food stamp use is a clear sign of poverty and food insecurity, two of the most detrimental economic conditions affecting a child’s health.” Rank’s study, “Estimating the Risk of Food Stamp Use and Impoverishment During Childhood,” is published in the current issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Video available.

The annual health open enrollment period for the health/dental or dental-only plans, the health- and child-care flex spending plans, the Health Savings Account and the Retirement Medical Savings Account has begun. It will continue through Nov. 30.

Scholars from across the United States and Canada will gather at Washington University Nov. 6 and 7 for the inaugural International Creole Corridor Symposium. The public is invited to attend the symposium, sponsored by WUSTL and Les Amis (The Friends), the region’s Creole cultural heritage preservationist organization, located in St. Louis. The Creole Corridor, located […]

Researchers at the School of Medicine have linked mutations in a gene to a benign pediatric brain tumor, a finding that will help scientists seek drug treatments that block growth of the tumors, they report in the journal Neurology.

Critic and curator Yve-Alain Bois, a widely recognized expert on 20th-century European and American art, will present a lecture titled “Chance Encounters: John Cage, François Morellet, Ellsworth Kelly” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in Steinberg Hall Auditorium. The talk — held in conjunction with the exhibition Chance Aesthetics, on view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum through Jan. 4 — is cosponsored by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ fall Public Lecture Series and the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences.

Intensive lifestyle changes aimed at modest weight loss reduced the rate of developing type 2 diabetes by 34 percent over 10 years in people at high risk for the disease, researchers at the School of Medcine report online in The Lancet.

The following incidents were reported to University Police Oct. 21-27. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. Oct. 22 11:14 a.m. — Artwork in […]

Andrew H. Knoll, Ph.D., the Fisher Professor of Natural History and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, will deliver the second annual Robert M. Walker Distinguished Lecture at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, in Room 300, Laboratory Sciences Building.

Photo by Robert BostonFor Mabel Moraña, Ph.D., the William H. Gass Professor in Arts & Sciences and director of the Latin American Studies Program in Arts & Sciences, leaving Uruguay became a turning point in her life.

Richard L. Axelbaum, Ph.D., Alison Brockmeyer, Ron K. Cytron, Ph.D., and more…