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DehnerLouis P. “Pepper” Dehner, a faculty member at the School of Medicine, received the Distinguished Pathologist Award of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) at the academy’s 2009 annual meeting. Held in Boston March 7-13, the meeting is the largest annual gathering of pathologists, and the Distinguished Pathologist Award is its highest honor.

To stand, walk, run or ride a bike, people rely greatly on the sensory apparatus of the vestibular system located in the inner ears. Two million people in the United States live with chronic imbalance as the result of vestibular system malfunction. Joel Goebel, M.D., director of the Dizziness and Balance Center at the School of Medicine, wanted to help people with vestibular malfunction better navigate through their surroundings. So he collaborated on building a device, worn on the head, that alerts wearers that they are leaning so they can upright themselves.

The Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging is hosting the 2009 Friedman Conference April 21 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. The conference, titled “In the Words of the Artist: The Influence of Age on Creativity and Expression,” focuses on the ways artists experience the aging process and how it […]

Shirley K. Baker, vice chancellor for scholarly resources and dean of University Libraries, presented the 2009 Dean’s Medal to James E. Schiele, a member of the libraries’ National Council and WUSTL alumnus, March 10 at a ceremony in Holmes Lounge. In 2006, Schiele and his wife, Joan, donated the James E. and Joan Singer Schiele […]

Senior Divya Srinath, the 2008-09 WUSTL Interfaith Youth Core Fellow, will lead a group of WUSTL students and students from Saint Louis University and Maryville University in a national day of interfaith youth service March 29. Nationally, this event is planned and run by hundreds of local student leaders, college chaplains, congregational youth leaders and […]

The following incidents were reported to University Police March 18-24. 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. March 19 8:47 a.m. — A staff […]

Funding from the Missouri Life Sciences Research Fund, part of the 1998 state tobacco settlement, will establish the St. Louis Institute of Nanomedicine Working Group, a collaborative regional effort to apply advances in nanotechnology to the treatment of human diseases.

The Pow Wow draws crowds from all over the Midwest to experience American Indian dancing, singing, drumming, arts, crafts and food. This event is free.

Check with your office manager to see if at the end of the day you can shut your computer down and turn off the power strip.

Photo by David KilperMary Jo Bang worked as an anti-Vietnam War organizer, a physician assistant and as a commercial photographer, but what she really wanted to do was to be a writer. Today she is a critically acclaimed poet and well-respected professor of English.