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Craig K. Reiss, M.D., has been named the Sam and Marilyn Fox Distinguished Professor in Medicine at the School of Medicine.

PET scans of cancer patients led clinicians to change treatment plans for more than a third of the patients, School of Medicine researchers found.

Courtesy Photo”Bye Bye Birdie,” the spring musical production by School of Medicine students, will be held April 24, 25 and 26 at the Whelpley Auditorium on the St Louis College of Pharmacy campus.

Photo by David KilperMen versus women, modern versus traditional, culture versus colonization. Such conflicts lie at the heart of “The Lion and the Jewel,” a sly and subversive comedy by Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka. The Performing Arts Department continues this deceptively light-hearted carnival of dance and song as its spring mainstage production this weekend, April 25-27.

A group of 18 students dancers from the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences has taken top honors at the Central Region conference of the American College Dance Festival Association March 4-9 at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. The students were recognized for their performance of “Grid,” an original work choreographed by Cecil Slaughter, senior lecturer in dance.

Three doctoral students — Keona Ervin from the Department of History in Arts & Sciences, Henrika McCoy from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work and Tracy Nicholson from the Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis program in the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences — were inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at the annual Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education March 29 at Yale University.

The Community Service Office of the Gephardt Institute for Public Service has announced five winners of three Social Change Grants, awarded annually to students pursuing innovative ideas that serve the common good in the spirit of social entrepreneurship. The three grants have a total value of $18,000.

A brain network linked to introspective tasks — such as forming a self-image or understanding the motivations of others — is less intricate and less well connected in children, School of Medicine scientists have learned. They also showed that the network establishes firmer connections between various brain regions as an individual matures. The scientists are […]

Dividing items into small portions helps control consumption. Whether it’s food or money, people tend to go through things more slowly when the lump sum is partitioned into small portions, according to new research from a WUSTL marketing professor.

David Kilper/WUSTL PhotoMuthanna Al-Dahhan (left) and graduate student Rajneesh Varma are researching effective ways to take agricultural waste and make biofuel out of it.Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis, using an impressive array of imaging and tracking technologies, have determined the importance of mixing in anaerobic digesters for bioenergy production and animal and farm wastes treatment. They are studying ways to take “the smell of money,” as farmers long have termed manure’s odor, and produce biogas from it.