Newsroom Stories

With the latest news that Hewlett Packard has dubbed Mark Hurd as its new CEO, I wanted to make you aware of the expertise Professor Todd Zenger, the Robert and Barbara Frick Professor of Business Strategy at Washington University in St. Louis, has on Hewlett Packard’s success and failures over the years. Zenger has had […]

Scientists have identified an important link between kidney damage and cardiac problems, creating new possibilities for treating the primary cause of death in kidney disease patients.

The Center for Social Development (CSD) at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis recently announced the 2005 grant recipients of its Civic Service Small Research Grants and Fellows Program. This program is part of the Global Service Institute (GSI) research initiative funded by the Ford Foundation.

Vegetarians who don’t cook their food have abnormally low bone mass, usually a sign of osteoporosis and increased fracture risk. But a research team at the School of Medicine also found that raw food vegetarians have other biological markers indicating their bones, although light in weight, may be healthy.

What makes a woman a woman?The mysteries of both human sex chromosomes have now been laid bare with the publication of the sequence of the human X chromosome in the journal Nature. Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in England led the effort to sequence the X, with significant contributions from the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University.

RoedigerSome of the nation’s top memory researchers are meeting at Purdue University on March 25-27 to talk about the most important findings in the field and to honor one of their own. The conference, entitled “Roddyfest: Directions in Memory Research,” honors Henry L. “Roddy” Roediger III, a pioneer in memory research and former Purdue professor. Roediger is chair of the Department of Psychology in Arts & Sciences at WUSTL.

The annual celebration promotes Jewish culture, people and religion and is sponsored by the Jewish Student Union.

Photo by Mary ButkusAdministrators, students and alumni enjoy a March 16 Social Work Month celebration in Brown Lounge.

Open to the University community, the event provides graduate students an opportunity to present their research to a broad audience.

School of Medicine researchers are testing the effectiveness of an investigational drug for the treatment of this neuropathic pain.