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Among the recommendations: Ensure that assistive devices like canes and walkers are available in hospital rooms.

The prize is given to a scientist or physician “whose work has led to a major advance in basic or clinical nuclear medicine science.”

If not for his interest in nutrition, Samuel Klein, M.D., might never have gone to medical school. Originally, he was planning to become a marine biologist. There’s still some evidence of his first career choice in the corner of his office, where a tank full of exotic fish gurgles. But science and Klein both benefited […]

Bethany McLean, the Fortune magazine reporter who was the first to question how energy giant Enron made its money, will give an Assembly Series talk based on her book — The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron — at 11 a.m. Sept. 8 in Graham Chapel. McLean, now […]

A portion of Parking Lot No. 2 — at the southeast corner of the Hilltop Campus — will be closed through August 2006.

Photo by Bob BostonRecent graduates work in the recently completed space that houses the University’s new genetic epidemiology master of science degree program.

New evidence has linked deformities to the presence of a parasite that has been noted in scientific literature for a century and a half.

The goal is to refine ideas that will benefit society and may have commercial value; individual grants of $20,000-50,000 are awarded.

The full project will be an international collaboration involving several laboratories, including a biology one at WUSTL.

In a new position, Williams — also the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity — will focus on urban and community initiatives.