Of note
Robert Morely, D.Sc.,
Carrine E. Blank, Ph.D.,
Michael Faulkender, Ph.D.,
and more…
Late piano trios of Mozart, Brahms to highlight concert
Seth Carlin, David Halen and Michael Haber will take the stage at 8 p.m. March 18 in the Whitaker Hall auditorium.
William Smiley dies at 92; groundbreaking obstetrician
He was one of the first African-American physicians to join the School of Medicine and was a renowned health-care policy innovator.
Sports
Women’s hoops wins UAA, heads for tourney The No. 9 women’s basketball team defeated the University of Chicago, 80-57, Feb. 26 at the WUSTL Field House to earn its eighth-straight University Athletic Association championship, as well as an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament. The title was the Bears’ 15th in the 18-year […]
Obituary: Parrott, 77
The former clinical instructor in the School of Dentistry died of leukemia Feb. 20.
W.M. Keck Foundation funds study of microbes
A School of Medicine project will develop new approaches for isolating, sequencing and analyzing the genomes of “friendly” bacteria.
Healing arts
Photo by Robert BostonSecond-year medical student Shana Kusin admires a panel of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display in the Bernard Becker Medical Library.
Schizophrenia research receives boost
The University has received an $11.6 million grant to fund a Silvio O. Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders.
Obituary: Jackie Wheeler, 75
The wife of Professor Emeritus Burton Wheeler, she died Feb. 25.
An ideal physician-scientist
David H. Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D., is having the time of his life. And despite his passion for jazz, this time there’s not a saxophone in sight. The source of Gutmann’s zeal is the School of Medicine’s newly formed interdisciplinary team unified by his scientific crusade: unraveling the mystery of brain tumors in children with neurofibromatosis […]
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