Newsroom Stories

Student Health Services is making available an online Web-based resource, MentalHealthEdu, to help faculty and staff members recognize students who are in distress and determine the best ways to help them. “Students often reach out to faculty and staff with issues that are troubling them,” said Alan I. Glass, M.D., director of Student Health Services. […]

Michael Avidan, M.D.; William Clutter, M.D.; and Stanley Misler, M.D., Ph.D., were named the winners of the 2007 Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Awards in Medical Student Education. The annual awards, which recognize outstanding teaching, are among the highest honors that School of Medicine teachers can achieve. They were established in 2000 in honor of Goldstein, […]

Photo by Robert BostonLinghui Zeng, M.D., Ph.D. (right), a postdoctoral research associate in neurology, shows mentor Michael Wong, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of neurology, her winning poster.

The third African Film Festival will be held March 27-30. The series consists of four feature films and four short films from eight different African nations, touching on themes of love, gender, family and the effects of globalization. It also will include a new youth program March 26-27.

Among the approximately 23,000 genes found in human DNA, scientists currently estimate that there may be as few as 50 to 100 that have no counterparts in other species. Expand that comparison to include the primate family known as hominoids, and there may be several hundred unique genes.

The annual Thurtene Road Race, which raises both money for charity and awareness of the Thurtene Carnival in April, will be held at 8:30 a.m. March 30 on the Danforth Campus. “This year’s race is going to be a great time for families to enjoy some fun and exercise together,” said junior James Cornwall, economics […]

School of Medicine anesthesiology researchers have found that a device to ensure surgery patients have no memories of their operations may not lower the risk of the phenomenon known as anesthesia awareness.

Photo by David MarchantThe Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present its third biennial “Young Choreographers Showcase“ March 28-30 in the Annelise Mertz Dance Studio in Mallinckrodt Student Center. The concert will feature seven original works — ranging from ballet to modern, solos to large group works — by student choreographers in the PAD’s Dance Program.

Ken Paulson, J.D., the editor and senior vice president of news for USA Today and usatoday.com, will discuss the role of the newspaper in today’s Internet-savvy society at 4 p.m., Wednesday, April 2 in Graham Chapel.

Two former United States Congressmen will be on campus from March 30-April1 as the University participates in the national Congress to Campus program.