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School of Medicine researchers have received a five-year, $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study heart failure in diabetic patients.

A team of psychiatric researchers found an antidepressant drug improved anxiety symptoms and quality of life in older adults with anxiety disorder.

Jennifer K. Lodge, Ph.D., has been named associate dean for research at the School of Medicine effective Feb. 1.

School of Medicine obesity researchers are recruiting families for an online program aimed at young children that targets healthy eating and physical activity.

Eugene R. Kilgen Jr., former executive director of the Washington University Medical Center Redevelopment Corp., died Jan. 17, 2009, at Conway Manor in Creve Coeur. He was 71.

Photo by Kevin LowderArchitecture graduate students work on a shelter on the Ruth Park Golf Course in University City, a class project in a fall graduate design/build studio led by Carl Safe, professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

David Kilper/WUSTL PhotoFor the first time, WUSTL scientists have used gold nanocages to map sentinel lymph nodes in a rat noninvasively using photoacoustic tomography.

Graduate students from all fields in the humanities and social sciences are invited to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship and two graduate student dissertation fellowships awarded to the Center for the Humanities by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminars program.

Steven C. Hause, Ph.D., senior scholar in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, has received the Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Course Award from the U.S. Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship for his course, “Economic History and Entrepreneurialism in Modern Western Civilization.”

Three dozen students from Washington University in St. Louis have a tough assignment: Determine the financial implications of Turkey’s application to join the European Union and further enlargement of EU membership.