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Campus & Community

Entrepreneur Saves Lives With Sanitation

A native of India, Ani Vallabhaneni, BSBA ’02, BSCS ’02, knows firsthand about the lack of sanitation in developing countries. An estimated 2.5 billion people lack ­access to adequate sanitation in the developing world, and 1.6 million children die each year from diarrheal disease as a result. Now, as co-founder and CEO of Sanergy, Vallabhaneni is […]
Campus & Community

Strengthening Alumni Connections

On Nov. 4, 2011, the Alumni Board of Governors (ABG) gathered for its first meeting of the academic year at College Hall on the South 40. One of ABG’s goals this year is to help prepare students for their lives after graduation.

RecycleMania 2012 kicks off Feb. 5

The 2012 RecycleMania contest, which pits WUSTL against other U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities to see which campus can keep the greatest amount of waste materials from landfills, begins Sunday, Feb. 5. It lasts eight weeks and ends Saturday, March 31. Last year, the university community recycled approximately 278.3 tons of waste during the contest to launch WUSTL into a top 5 percent finish.
Medicine & Health

Same genes linked to early- and late-onset Alzheimer’s

The same gene mutations linked to inherited, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease have been found in people with the more common late-onset form of the illness. The discovery by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may lead doctors and researchers to change the way Alzheimer’s disease is classified.
Science & Technology

Moynier awarded young scientist honors

Frédéric Moynier, PhD, 33, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences and a member of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named the recipient of the 2012 Houtermans Award and the Nier Prize, both given for exceptional work by a scientist younger than 35.
Medicine & Health

Winter blues see the light

People of all ages can develop winter blues or seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a type of clinical depression which occurs typically during the fall and winter and resolves itself by spring. Eric Lenze, MD, professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, says bright light therapy, sometimes called phototherapy, is the treatment of choice for seasonal affective disorder.

No Record email Monday, Feb. 6

Because of an all-day, collaborative staff retreat on Friday, Feb. 3, involving both Public Affairs and Medical Public Affairs staffs, there will be no Record email on Monday, Feb. 5. The Record website, record.wustl.edu, will continue to be updated as needed. The Record email will return Tuesday, Feb. 6.