Newsroom Stories

Listed below are this month’s featured news stories. • Neurotransmitter linked to cancer (week of Aug. 3) • ATV safety (week of Aug. 10) • Biomechanics of men and women (week of Aug. 17) • College can add pounds (week of Aug. 24) • Chimp genome sequenced (week of Aug. 31)

How exactly does the human brain react to a fall or an automobile accident? Researchers at Washington University are working to answer that question through a new computer model based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. Learn more in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch article.

Erik Trinkaus helped date human fossils excavated more than 100 years ago from the Mladec Caves in Moravia, Czech Republic.

Paul L. Miller Jr. was a University trustee from 1986-2003.

“Judge Roberts was one of a handful of truly top-notch Supreme Court lawyers while he was in private practice,” says Neil Richards, associate professor of law.

As part of Service First, they’ll beautify 11 St. Louis Public Schools to make the new school year more enjoyable for students and their teachers.

After September 11, he brilliantly led New York — and in some senses, the country — through one of the most devastating times in our history.

A neurotransmitter called GABA appears to be an indicator of a bad prognosis for certain cancers such as lung, thyroid and prostate. More medical news

Lucy M. Harrahill became director of social work for the University’s Child Guidance Center in 1958.

He has been an assistant team physician with the Cardinals since l998 and covers many of the team’s home games.