Newsroom Stories

School of Medicine neuroscientists have identified a key difference in the way the brain functions in people who are depressed compared with those who are not.

Jason Weber, Ph.D., has received a $4 million Era of Hope Scholar Award to study potential new ways to control breast cancer cell growth.

Courtesy PhotoConstruction will be complete in December on the BJC Institute of Health at Washington University.

A team of 11 health-care professionals from the School of Medicine recently took a surgical mission trip to the Dominican Republic.

School of Medicine employees can take advantage of a variety of screenings and information April 9 and 10 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center.

Eight WUSTL faculty members will receive Outstanding St. Louis Scientist Awards from the Academy of Science of St. Louis.

Poet David Lehman, Ph.D., editor of “The Best American Poetry” series, will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 2, for The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences. The talk — part of The Writing Program Reading Series — is free and open to the public and takes place in Duncker Hall, Room […]

Stanford classics professor Richard Martin discusses Homeric poetry as performance art in Ancient Greece, in the annual Assembly Series Biggs Lecture 4 p.m. April 9 in Steinberg Hall.

St. Louis’ Arianna String Quartet, widely hailed as among the nation’s finest chamber ensembles, will be joined by renowned pianist Seth Carlin, professor of music in Arts & Sciences, for a concert of music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Erno Dohnanyi and Robert Schumann.

Scientists who first established a link between obesity and the trillions of friendly microbes that live in the intestine now are investigating whether the organisms can contribute to the converse: severe malnutrition. Researchers at the School of Medicine, led by microbiologist Jeffrey Gordon, M.D., will study whether severely malnourished infants living in Malawi and Bangladesh have a different mix of intestinal microbes than healthy infants in the same areas, and whether those microbes might account for their illness. This three-year, $5.5 million project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.