A combination of two diabetes drugs was more effective in treating 10-17-year-olds with recent-onset type 2 diabetes than one, according to researchers at Washington University in St. Louis who participated in a multicenter clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Washington University School of Medicine segment of the trial was led by Neil H. White, professor of pediatrics and of medicine and director of the Pediatric Clinical Research Unit and a diabetes specialist at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton presents William A. Peck, MD, Washington University’s Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Medicine and director of the Center for Health Policy, with the William Greenleaf Eliot Society “Search” Award at the society’s 45th annual dinner May 1 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Clayton, Mo.
Senior Ji Eun Seo returns an item to Washington University Libraries through the new book drop box on the South 40. Seo and other WUSTL libraries users now can return university library books, music and other materials through the new book drop. The box is located on Shepley Drive across from the South 40 House.
Each year at Commencement, the Washington University in St. Louis Record presents its annual Gallery of Outstanding Graduates. From among the more than 2,700 degree candidates, 12 are chosen who not only excel academically but also stand out because of exceptional ability, volunteer involvement on campus or in the community, unique career choice, family background or unusual hobby or outside interests.
Kristy Anderson puts people at the center of her work, both in and out of the classroom. “I approach my research with a person-centered philosophy,” says Anderson, a master’s of social work candidate from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. “Person-centered is allowing the person with a disability to govern their own lives and goals. We are simply there to help them through the process.” Anderson is one of 12 Outstanding Graduates for 2012 to be profiled in the Record.
Women serve as CEOs of just 17 of the Fortune 500 top companies in the United States. PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has been quoted as saying, “The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.” However, that may not necessarily be happening. Research from Washington University in St. Louis finds that women often do not support qualified female candidates as potential high-prestige work group peers.
Among surgeries for obesity, a newer, increasingly popular procedure called sleeve gastrectomy provides more weight loss to high-risk severely obese patients than adjustable gastric banding, a new study by Esteban Varela, MD, suggests. Two years after surgery, patients in both groups had lost substantial weight, but those who had had a sleeve gastrectomy shed an average of 16 additional pounds.
Volunteers plant a rain garden on the south side of Eads Hall on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis April 24. As part of Earth Day week activities, university staff, faculty and students were invited to help plant a rain garden (or bioswale) next to Eads Hall.
The men’s track & field team won its fourth-consecutive University Athletic Association (UAA) outdoor title, while the WUSTL women finished as the runner-up for the second year in a row on the final day of the 2012 UAA Outdoor Championships April 29.
Religion never has been more central or more polarizing in U.S. politics. To help provide informed context around the religious and political issues that clash, converge and shape everyday public life, a new national online journal, Religion & Politics, from the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington University in St. Louis went live May 1.
