Newsroom Stories

The Department of Anesthesiology’s Anita Minor wrote about her the gifts of her son with Down syndrome in a new book.

School of Medicine research shows that surgical repair of sports hernias using tension-free mesh, paired with rehabilitation, successfully returned most athletes to competition.

Daniel R. Mandelker, J.D., the Howard A. Stamper Professor of Law, received the American Bar Association’s prestigious Daniel J. Curtin Lifetime Achievement Award.

Ryan-Jasen Henne started July 2 as director of Greek Life in the Office of Student Activities. He will oversee the University’s 11 fraternities and six sororities.

Gaining confidence can be hard for anyone. St. Louis native Brad Cohen had the added pressure of Tourette syndrome, but that didn’t stop him from gaining his. Cohen is now a successful elementary schoolteacher and author. WUSM neurologist Bradley Schlaggar describes the battle Cohen and others with the disruptive neurological disorder face each day.

With the start of the new school year, it’s important for parents to keep a watchful eye on their children for behavioral problems. One of the most common back-to-school burdens is bullying. Bullying occurs most frequently in late elementary school and middle school and can take several forms. Boy bullies tend to intimidate with physical aggression. Girls engage more in verbal teasing.

Students in the Class of 2011, arriving on campus today, will be busy buying last-minute notebooks, pens, highlighters and maybe a few paint brushes. Paint brushes? More than 1,000 newly arrived freshmen will need those brushes, and more, as they volunteer their time Sept. 1 to paint, landscape, clean and beautify 13 area public schools […]

Washington University in St. Louis’ volleyball team is ranked No. 4 in the 2007 CSTV/American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Preseason Coaches Poll, as announced today by the AVCA. For weekend sports scores, go to BearSports WUSTL tallied 531 total points in the poll. In 2007, the Bears will contend with a fiercely competitive schedule, facing […]

Courtesy PhotoJeffrey Lowell (left) and Eric Shirley, lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, perform clubfoot repair surgery on a child while on board the USNS Comfort.Jeffrey Lowell, professor of surgery and of pediatrics, not only serves his patients, he serves his country, too. He was recently deployed on a mission serving in his role as a commander in the U.S. Public Health Service Reserve. Commander Lowell was deployed on the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort July 13-Aug. 6 to serve as a general surgeon while the ship was in Panama, Nicaragua and El Salvador.

The Fall 2007 Assembly Series parts with some of the traditions of the 54-year-old lecture series, while maintaining its mission of presenting to the Washington University community some of the most distinctive and vibrant voices of the day.