Newsroom Stories

Sophomore volunteers Banji Iyun and Katherine Karr work on the 125-foot-long “World Music Mural.”

O’Leary prizes for neuroscience research announced

Harvey A. and Dorismae Friedman chat with John C. Morris at the third annual Friedman Lecture and Center for Aging Update.

Classes will meet from 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday; the program grants an M.B.A. in only 18 months.

Researchers have uncovered evidence linking genetic influences to nicotine withdrawal symptoms that commonly occur when a person attempts to stop smoking.

Danica Anderson’s and Cory Simpson’s theses were judged to be the most outstanding among eight nominated for the annual award.

campus watch

The May 19 event, in its 28th year, honors personnel for their contributions to the University’s success.

The enlarged and distended lungs of an emphysema patient before surgery.Known as lung-volume reduction surgery, the procedure improves overall health and quality of life for people with end-stage emphysema. Now lung surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that the positive effects last for as long as five years in more than half of all patients. It is not a cure for emphysema, but studies suggest that the surgery can increase breathing capacity by more than 50 percent. The procedure was developed a decade ago at Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. In select patients with disease that is localized to certain areas of the lung, it is possible to remove the most diseased portions of lung tissue and provide more room for the lung to expand inside the chest cavity.

GassWilliam H. Gass, Ph.D., the David May Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and founder of the International Writers Center, both in Arts & Sciences, has won this year’s PEN/Spielvogel Diamonstein Award in the Art of the Essay category.