Newsroom Stories

Listed below are this month’s featured news stories. • New pain management targets (week of Apr. 5) • Finding deadly cancer genes (week of Apr. 12) • Overweight adolescents study (week of Apr. 19) • Glucose-hungry tumors (week of Apr. 26)

Cervical cancers that take up a lot of blood sugar resist treatment more than those that are less glucose-hungry.

He’s been at WUSTL since 1968; national media often ask him to provide expert commentary regarding the use of rhetoric as a political or social tool.

As part of a State Department program, the visitors made presentations to law school faculty and students on legal education and the legal profession in Nepal.

The School of Law entered the top 20 for the first time, moving into a tie for 19th this year; the M.B.A. program in the Olin School climbed to a tie for 26th.

Vitamin D supplements may ease joint and muscle pain in breast cancer patients taking the drug Arimidex.

The chancellor reviews some of the academic year’s achievements and milestones, and shares some plans to be initiated shortly after Commencement.

Faculty who conduct research in diabetes and endocrinology may apply for grant funding from the Diabetes Research and Training Center in the School of Medicine.

“We are fortunate to have an international leader as this year’s Commencement speaker,” Chancellor Wrighton said; the talk is titled “The Changing World.”

Kelle H. Moley, M.D., has been named vice chair for basic science research and director of the Division of Basic Science Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.