Despite promising findings in the laboratory, Dominic N. Reeds, MD, and other nutrition researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that ginseng does not improve insulin sensitivity in diabetics who are overweight.
WUSTL has received a four-year, $550,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to preserve Henry Hampton’s award-winning civil rights documentary Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 as well as Hampton’s complete, unedited interviews recorded on film for the documentary.
Robert R. Kuehn, JD, professor of law, has been named associate dean for clinical education at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, effective July 1, 2011.
In recognition of national Undergraduate Research Week, April 11-15, research posters of Washington University undergraduate students were displayed on trees along Oak Walk. The Washington University Office of Undergraduate Research held a number of events last week to raise awareness about the importance of undergraduate research experiences for students’ development and engagement in a discipline.
Members of the Delta Gamma/Sigma Nu group help the annual Thurtene Carnival “Celebrate the Magic of Community” with their facade (above) and performance April 17, the final day of the three-day event. Despite a weekend of wacky weather, an estimated 35,000-40,000 attended the carnival April 15-17 on the north Brookings parking lot on the east end of campus.
In the beginning was the fig leaf. The first garment. Eden couture. “Our students always start with a leaf-inspired project because that is the beginning of fashion,” quips Jeigh Singleton, director of the Fashion Design program in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. “It is the original inspiration for color, line, shape, structure, texture — all the things that we think of when we think of clothing.” On May 1, those qualities and more will be on full display as part of the Sam Fox School’s 82nd Annual Fashion Design Show.
Ken Yamaguchi, MD, the Sam and Marilyn Fox Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, fixes shoulders and elbows. Although many think of rotator cuff tears affecting athletes, almost 50 percent of people over age 70 have rotator cuff tears, either with or without pain.
With over a dozen states considering banning Sharia (Islamic law) in their courts, laws governing other countries are facing increased scrutiny. “This is emblematic of U.S. fears about international law,” says Leila Nadya Sadat, the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law and director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University in St. Louis. “International law has become a ‘whipping boy’ for the ills that are being felt because of globalization.” Sadat say that this is unfortunate because the United States proudly led the trial of the major German leaders at the end of World War II at Nuremberg. “In fact, the entire post-World War II framework of modern international law was, if not an American creation, at least American inspired and American driven,” she says.
Of note Jeffrey G. Catalano, PhD, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a five-year, $460,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Nanoscale Mineral Transformations During Biochemical Cycling and the Fate of Trace Elements and Nutrients.” … Jeff Gill, PhD, professor of political science in Arts […]