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Science & Technology

Dining with laureates

In mid-summer two lucky Washington University in St. Louis graduate students got to travel to Lake Constance in Germany to listen in the morning to Nobel laureates lecture on the topics of their choice and quiz them in afternoon about life in science and what it is really like.
Medicine & Health

Reducing repeat cesareans

George Macones, MD, the Mitchell and Elaine Yanow Professor and head of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine, conducted one of two large observational studies of women who try to give birth vaginally after a prior cesarean section. The study showed the rates of the previous uterine incision breaking open were less than 1 percent.

News highlights for August 17, 2010

The Telegraph (UK) Human Microbiome Project: a map of every bacterium in the body 9/17/2010 The Human Microbiome Project is unraveling the vastly important job that the unseen bacteria and microbes that live in and on our bodies play in human health. “We should no longer think of these organisms in isolation,” says Professor George […]

News highlights for August 16, 2010

The New York Times Outdoors and out of reach, studying the brain 08/16/2010 GLEN CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Utah — Todd Braver emerges from a tent nestled against the canyon wall. He has a slight tan, except for a slim pale band around his wrist. For the first time in three days in the wilderness, […]

Notables

Stacey DeJong, Ericka Merriwether and Lori Tuttle, movement science doctoral students in the Program of Physical Therapy, were selected for Promotion of Doctoral Studies (PODS) scholarships from The Foundation of Physical Therapy. Merriwether received $7,500, and DeJong and Tuttle each received $15,000. Merriwether also was selected as the recipient of the Laura K. Smith Award […]