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Women doctors are the focus of a traveling exhibition opening Aug. 10 at the Bernard Becker Medical Library at the School of Medicine. The exhibit, which features prominent physicians from WUSM and elsewhere, highlights women’s struggles to gain access to medical education and to work in the specialty of their choice.

Washington University in St. Louis associate director of intramurals and club sports and former women’s tennis coach Lynn Imergoot passed away on Friday, July 24, from injuries sustained in a car accident in New York. Imergoot, 60, retired from coaching in 2005 and spent a total of 37 years on the Danforth Campus.

A 10 million-square-foot cellular network will be built on the Washington University Medical Center campus this year as part of a new paging system. Sprint and TFC, the joint School of Medicine- and BJC HealthCare-operated company that supports telecommunications services, will build the network, estimated to be complete in early 2010.

Traditional rice cultivation methods practiced in the isolated hillside farms of Thailand are helping preserve the genetic diversity of rice, one of the world’s most important food crops, according to a new study by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Chiang Mai University in Thailand.

Data collected during two close flybys of Saturn’s moon Enceladus by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft add more fuel to the fire about the Saturnian ice world containing sub-surface liquid water, according to a report in the July 23 issue of the journal Nature that is co-authored by a planetary researcher from Washington University in St. Louis.

More than 350 physicians at the School of Medicine have been named to The Best Doctors In America for 2009. The number is twice that of any other physicians’ group in St. Louis and more than any other physicians’ group in the Midwest.

Photo by Randy KorotevLunar geochemist Randy Korotev, Ph.D., a research professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, said that there are still many answers to be gleaned from the moon rocks collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts on their historic moonwalk 40 years ago July 20. And he credits another WUSTL professor for the fact that the astronauts even collected the moon rocks in the first place.

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Alison J. Whelan, M.D., has been named senior associate dean for education, and Yi Zhang, J.D., has been named assistant dean for clinical trials. Both appointments were effective July 1. Creation of Whelan’s position emanates from the school’s Plan for Excellence, the 10-year strategic plan recently completed and endorsed by the Executive Faculty, Chancellor Mark […]