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A senior department leader at Edward Jones, she started her undergraduate career nearly three decades ago at Marquette University.

Photo by David KilperSolar panels were recently installed on the roof of Olin Library as a project done through the University’s Committee on Environmental Quality.

A program is based on research showing that students who interact with older adults early in their medical training develop better attitudes toward aging. More medical news

He died May 14 of pancreatic cancer; he earned bachelor’s and doctoral degrees degree in electrical engineering from WUSTL.

Controlling depression, by exercise, activity, cognitive therapy or medication, improves the likelihood that blood glucose will be better controlled in patients with diabetes.

After this issue, the Record will phase into its monthly summer publication schedule.

Heart patients who smoke and have implanted defibrillators are much more likely to have the devices jolt their hearts back into normal rhythm than nonsmokers with the devices.

Growing up in 10 states across India, Richa Dhanju saw “immense disparity amongst people and between men and women.” But it wasn’t until she was pursuing an undergraduate degree in philosophy at Lady Sri Ram College for Women in New Delhi that she started examining these differences. “Women’s secondary status and role in the patriarchal […]

The School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital researchers will receive $300,000 annually for five years to study how infections are acquired in health-care settings.