Newsroom Stories

This is the last official Record Monday of the calendar year. We will resume regular publication on Jan. 22, 2007. In the event of urgent announcements or breaking news, the electronic Record may be e-mailed periodically during the break. The Record staff wishes everyone a safe and happy holiday season.

Jeffrey Marlow is among the 43 young Americans to receive a 2007 Marshall Scholarship, which provides full support for two or three years of study at any British university toward a second bachelor’s degree or an advanced degree. Marlow, a senior in earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, is WUSTL’s first Marshall Scholar since 1993.

New School of Medicine research shows that physicians can’t assume that women with rare, benign breast conditions are cancer-free.

The Dec. 1 board meeting included reports and updates on campus activities and the election of Gordon W. Philpott, emeritus professor of surgery, to the board.

The School of Medicine researchers have been named to the 2006 Scientific American 50.

The men’s basketball team shot 74.1 percent in the second half to claim the 23rd Annual Lopata Classic with an 81-65 win against Pomona-Pitzer Colleges Dec. 2 at the Field House.

School of Medicine researchers found that a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug administered at typically nontoxic doses significantly increased liver damage in mice with a mutant human gene.

Photo by Robert Boston

Photo by Robert BostonMarc J. Bernstein, M.D. (left), instructor in clinical medicine, receives the Stanley Lang Lecturer of the Year award from Wale Adeniran, president of the School of Medicine Class of 2009.

Claudia Daugherty, coordinator of the nonprofit management master’s degree program in University College in Arts & Sciences, died Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006, at her home in Wildwood, Mo.