Bradley Stoner leads society of specialists who treat STDs
Bradley P. Stoner, MD, PhD, has been elected president of the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association, the national society that represents researchers and clinicians specializing in sexually transmitted infections.
Amazingly mathematical music
Math and music might seem a strange combination to
some. Certainly many famous performers are able to bring audiences to
their feet without once thinking about ratios or anything else overtly
mathematical. But David Wright, chairman of the mathematics department at Washington University in St. Louis, always has been gifted with an unusual, even
eerie, ability to hear both the music and the math simultaneously.
Heavy lifting
Workers prepare to place a new MRI scanner into the East Building at the School of Medicine June 11. The 18,000-pound scanner will be used for the Human Connectome Project, a research study that will trace the anatomical and functional connections between different
regions of the brain’s gray matter.
Racial discrimination lessens benefits of higher socio-economic status (VIDEO)
Racial discrimination could lessen the mental-health benefits usually associated with better socio-economic position for African-American men, finds a new study by Darrell L. Hudson, PhD, assistant professor of public health at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
City youth help St. Louis Zoo, WUSTL scientists study box turtles
Sixteen St. Louis youth will be in Forest Park on June 13 tracking
box turtles, fitted with telemetry devices — all to help with a project
aimed at studying box turtle movements and their health. The 12- and 13-year-olds are participating in a pilot study designed
by scientists from the Saint Louis Zoo and Washington University in St.
Louis to document box turtle movements and their health status in urban
and rural areas in and around St. Louis.
Census of microbes in healthy humans reported
Some 200 U.S. scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and elsewhere detail findings from the most comprehensive census of the microbial make-up of healthy humans.
Timing, duration of biochemical bugle call critical for fighting viruses
Researchers have identified the primary player of the
biochemical bugle call that musters the body’s defenders against viral
infection. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine
in St. Louis have shown that a key molecule, MDA5, is essential for
producing enough interferon (the bugle call) to rally virus-fighting
cells during certain viral infections.
Two faculty named fellows of American Academy of Microbiology
The American Academy of Microbiology has named two Washington University in St. Louis faculty members as fellows: Robert Blankenship, PhD, and John Heuser, MD.
Schaal wins AIBS Distinguished Scientist Award
The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) honored Barbara Schaal, PhD, the Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, with the 2011-12 AIBS Distinguished Scientist Award June 1.
Athletics’ Smith receives Gloria White service award
From baking birthday cakes to greeting visitors with a smile, Pat Smith, chief administrative assistant for the WUSTL football team, makes it a priority to help all involved with the football program feel special. In recognition of her more than 10 years of dedication, Smith was recognized with the Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award in a May 21 Staff Day ceremony in Edison Theatre.
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