Anxious older adults may benefit from antidepressants
A team of psychiatric researchers found an antidepressant drug improved anxiety symptoms and quality of life in older adults with anxiety disorder.
THIS IS home.php
Lodge named associate dean for research
Jennifer K. Lodge, Ph.D., has been named associate dean for research at the School of Medicine effective Feb. 1.
Online weight-loss study seeks to educate parents
School of Medicine obesity researchers are recruiting families for an online program aimed at young children that targets healthy eating and physical activity.
Obituary: Kilgen, led redevelopment around Medical Center, 71
Eugene R. Kilgen Jr., former executive director of the Washington University Medical Center Redevelopment Corp., died Jan. 17, 2009, at Conway Manor in Creve Coeur. He was 71.
A good measure
Photo by Kevin LowderArchitecture graduate students work on a shelter on the Ruth Park Golf Course in University City, a class project in a fall graduate design/build studio led by Carl Safe, professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
Novel technique changes lymph node biopsy procedure for breast cancer patients
David Kilper/WUSTL PhotoFor the first time, WUSTL scientists have used gold nanocages to map sentinel lymph nodes in a rat noninvasively using photoacoustic tomography.
Fellowship applicants sought by Center for Humanities
Graduate students from all fields in the humanities and social sciences are invited to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship and two graduate student dissertation fellowships awarded to the Center for the Humanities by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminars program.
Obituary: Grant, longtime clinical faculty, 80
Neville Grant, M.D., a professor of clinical medicine for nearly 40 years, died Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. He was 80.
Major retrospective, Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, opens Jan. 30 at WUSTL’s Kemper Art Museum
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University will host Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, the first retrospective to explore the complete career of the acclaimed Finnish- American architect. The exhibit will remain on view at the Kemper Museum through April 27. A second exhibition, On the Riverfront: St. Louis and the Gateway Arch, highlights the history of the St. Louis waterfront and includes selected submissions from the 1947 competition, including Saarinen’s own entry, subsequent drawings and models, on view in Steinberg Hall through March 9.
Course combining western civ with history of entrepreneurs is honored
Steven C. Hause, Ph.D., senior scholar in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, has received the Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Course Award from the U.S. Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship for his course, “Economic History and Entrepreneurialism in Modern Western Civilization.”