Newsroom Stories

A new study by Esteban Varela, MD, shows that adjustable gastric banding, a type of weight loss surgery that reduces the size of the stomach, is safe in people who are mildly obese.

Irish Times (UK) Biblio detective work restores Jefferson legacy 02/27/2011 Thomas Jefferson is acknowledged to have been the US’s most bibliophile president. Washington University in St. Louis has just discovered it owns 74 volumes that belonged to Jefferson, many of them with his notations. So his retirement library has been virtually reconstructed, 182 years after […]

Sports updates for the week of Feb. 18, 2011.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s move to strip or significantly narrow his state’s public-sector workers’ collective bargaining rights has significant implications for all unionized workers, both in the public and private sector, says Marion Crain, JD, the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis and director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Work & Social Capital.

Sir Nigel Sheinwald, British ambassador to the United States, will deliver a major policy address at 4 p.m. Friday, March 4, in Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall. His talk is the annual T.S. Eliot Lecture, which is named in honor of the famed poet and author who was the grandson of WUSTL co-founder William Greenleaf Eliot. 

Freshmen Marissa Cantu and Kelly Gorrell laugh as Dan Nainan, “the biracial standup comedian,” entertains the audience Feb. 18 during the Great Loving Day Banquet in College Hall in the South 40. The Loving Day Banquet is a rememberance of the court case Loving v. Virginia, which legalized interracial marriage in 1967.

Associated Press
 Census: St. Louis population down 8 percent
 02/25/2011 St. Louis is losing residents, according to U.S. Census figures released Thursday, and the population decline goes deeper than being another blow to the proud city’s image. Steven S. Smith, a public policy professor at Washington University in St. Louis, agrees that something needs to […]

Mental health professional participate in a panel discussion, “When Love Hurts,” Feb. 16 at Seigle Hall on the Danforth Campus. The panel discussed dating violence and what can be done to confront it in a healthy manner. The event was sponsored by the WUSTL Pre-Law Society, Men Organized for Rape Education and Committee Organized for Rape Education.

If the titans of finance had only been paying attention, they would have seen that former Washington University in St. Louis economics professor Hyman P. Minsky had predicted the Great Recession decades before it happened.

Marcus E. Raichle, MD, professor of radiology, of neurobiology and of neurology in the School of Medicine, received a MetLife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer’s Disease Feb. 24 in New York. Raichle has been producing brain imaging research contributing to the way Alzheimer’s is now diagnosed and treated for nearly 40 years.