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She was an administrative assistant in the Department of Otolaryngology at the School of Medicine from 1965-1985.

Women’s hoops stays unbeaten in UAA play The No. 3 women’s basketball team (13-1, 3-0 UAA) won a pair of league road games to keep its league record unblemished. WUSTL defeated Emory University, 71-55, on Jan. 13. Senior Kelly Manning led the Bears with a game-high 21 points. On Jan. 15, the Bears upended Case […]

A research instructor in the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, his book is titled Junkie Business: The Evolution and Operation of a Heroin Dealing Network.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton has named William A. Peck, M.D., the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor, as the committee’s chair.

Doctors may soon be turning back the clock for some patients with complete atherosclerotic blockage of the carotid arteries, blood vessels in the neck that are important sources of blood for the brain.

The former dean of the School of Business and Public Administration died Monday, Dec. 19, 2005.

Art Carlson, Ph.D., professor emeritus of accounting at the Olin School of Business, died Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006, while undergoing surgery to treat an infection that had spread throughout his body. Carlson was 82.

Courtesy photoMichel YangMichel Yang, the 2005-06 Marcus Artists for the Dance Program in Washington University’s Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences, will present an informal concert of improvisational works at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1. In addition, Yang will be in residence Jan. 27 to Feb. 1 to conduct a series of master classes with intermediate and upper-level dance students.

Renowned pianist Peter Martin will perform with drummer Maurice Carnes for Washington University’s Jazz at Holmes series from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26. A St. Louis native and graduate of University City High School, Martin has long resided in New Orleans but recently returned to St. Louis after his 100-year-old home was deluged in the Katrina flooding. He is currently featured with jazz singer Diane Reeves in the film Goodnight, and Good Luck.

The internal “skeleton” (in red) of cells is altered by exposure to high fat.Investigating the harmful health effects of excess fat, researchers at the School of Medicine have identified a protein that triggers death in mammalian cells overloaded with saturated fat. When the researchers halted production of the protein, the cells were able to thrive in ordinarily damaging amounts of saturated fat.