Braff rescheduled
The Assembly Series pro-gram featuring actor Zach Braff has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Nov. 12 in Graham Chapel.
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Center for violence prevention to be introduced during Brown School Convocation
Breaking the cycle of violence in young families and youth transitioning to adulthood is the focus of the new Center for Violence and Injury Prevention at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Koepnick, Harper new faculty fellows in Danforth House
Photo by Bill StoverLutz Koepnick, Ph.D., professor of German in Arts & Sciences, and Jana Harper, senior lecturer in book arts in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, are the newest members of the faculty fellows program in the South 40.
Two more genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s found
School of Medicine scientists have helped a team identify two more genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease.
Low vitamin D raises heart disease risks in diabetics
Low levels of vitamin D are known to nearly double the risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes, School of Medicine researchers learned.
Second cycle of grants supports patient research
Twenty-four research groups have received funding through a jointly funded Clinical and Translational Research Funding Program.
Sleckman named Conan Professor
Barry P. Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., has been named the Conan Professor of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine.
Celebrating America’s women physicians
Photo by Robert BostonArts & Sciences senior Sarah April talks with Mabel L. Purkerson, M.D., as they look at the “Changing the Face of Medicine” exhibit at the Bernard Becker Medical Library.
Registry to track children with infantile spasms
PaciorkowskiResearchers at the School of Medicine and the University of Chicago have launched what is believed to be the first worldwide, online registry of children with infantile spasms, a severe type of epilepsy that affects babies in the first few months of life.
Dorfman returns to WUSTL and takes dance theater ‘underground’
Provocative questions of activism, justified violence and making a difference lie at the heart of “underground,” an ambitious evening-length multimedia dance piece by acclaimed choreographer David Dorfman Sept. 25 and 26.