The Brown School’s Master of Public Health (MPH) program at Washington University in St. Louis was recently accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH). The accreditation provides national
recognition of the quality of our program, says Edward F. Lawlor, PhD, dean
of the Brown School and the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor.
“This unique program teaches students to address public health issues
through the lens of many different disciplines.Accreditation will provide students and alumni expanded job opportunities, fellowships, and doctoral admissions.”
Three hundred and eighty physicians at Washington
University in St. Louis have been named to the Best Doctors In America
for 2012. One of every three physicians in St. Louis is a Washington
University physician.
Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis will be working on low-cost solar cells and systems that integrate solar cells with batteries as part of $125 million U.S.-India Initiative for Clean Energy announced this year. The technology is designed to help India leapfrog energy technologies, moving directly to low-emission electricity generation and bypassing as much as possible fossil-fuel electrical generation.
Hundreds of mutations exist in leukemia cells at the time of diagnosis but nearly all occur randomly as a part of normal aging and are not related to cancer, new research at Washington University School of Medicine shows.
Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis who were decoding the activity of populations of neurons in the motor cortex discovered that they could tell how a monkey was planning to approach a reaching task. By chance the two monkeys
chosen for the study had completely different cognitive styles. One was a hyperactive type, who kept jumping the gun, and
the other was a smooth operator, who waited for the entire setup to be
revealed before planning his next move. The difference is clearly
visible in their decoded brain activity, allowing the scientists, in effect, to read their minds.
Staff members from WUSTL’s University Archives have started a blog, Bears Repeating: History and Happenings from Washington University Archives. The blog will focus on a range of subjects from WUSTL and St. Louis history to updates on archives-related events and projects.
Gerald Andriole, MD, chief of urologic surgery at the Siteman Cancer Center
at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine
in St. Louis, is a co-author of new research showing that many men with prostate cancer do not need immediate treatment, especially if they have low PSA scores or low-risk tumors that are unlikely to grow and spread.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded more than
$2 million to a team of scientists from Washington University in St.
Louis and InvivoSciences, a biotechnology startup with WUSTL roots, to
construct artificial tissue models that will allow the rapid testing of
new drugs for heart failure.
A unique summer research program is providing 11 students who attend Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., with invaluable experience at the School of Medicine. The program offers the Meharry students the opportunity to conduct cutting-edge research with the School of Medicine’s renowned physicians and scientists.
