Newsroom Stories

WUSTL’s Locks of Love will join forces with St. Louis’ D-Zine Hair & Art Studio April 6 to host a haircut event supporting children afflicted by disease-related hair loss.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Student Involvement and Leadership in the Campus Life Office has created a new leadership honor named after WUSTL alumnus Jim Holobaugh.

Photo by Mary ButkusThe naming of Barbara Schaal, Ph.D., as the Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences honors two of WUSTL’s pioneering women biologists, said Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.

Gustav Schonfeld, M.D., has released his memoir, “Absence of Closure,” which describes his experiences in four Nazi concentration camps.

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.