Alzheimer’s plaque buildup reduced by drug
The ability of brain cells to take in substances from their surface is essential to the production of a key ingredient in Alzheimer’s brain plaques, researchers found.
THIS IS home.php
Danforth Campus parking changes announced for 2008-09
WUSTL’s commitment to increase green space on the Danforth Campus and promote sustainability has prompted the University to reassess its parking offerings for the 2008-09 academic year — adding the Occasional Parking Program and adjusting parking fees.
Come dancing
Photo by Tim ParkerMedical and occupational therapy students held a “senior prom” April 12 to facilitate social interactions between the school and the older adult community.
Advance in atrial fibrillation surgery boosts outcomes
By adding a simple step to an operative procedure, heart surgeons found a significant improvement in the outcome for the treatment of atrial fibrillation.
Career services dean hired by law school
Michael Spivey has been named the new assistant dean for career services, strategy, and marketing at the School of Law, announced Kent D. Syverud, J.D., dean and the Ethan A.H. Shepley University Professor.
East Village Opera Company brings rock arrangements to opera music
You’ve heard opera, and you’ve heard rock, but you’ve never heard opera rocked like the East Village Opera Company. On Friday, May 2, the East Village Opera Company will make its St. Louis debut as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series.
DBBS to mark 35th anniversary, 1,000th graduate
The Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences will mark two milestones May 1-2: its 35th anniversary and graduating its 1,000th student.
Dream Keepers’ Fair
Photo by Jerry Naunheim, Jr.Evan Krauss, first-year student at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, talks to U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., and Henry Givens Jr., Ph.D., president of Harris-Stowe State University, during the Dream Keepers’ Fair April 19.
19th-century Barbizon movement explored in new Kemper exhibit
Courtesy PhotoBeginning May 2, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present “The Barbizon School and the Nature of Landscape,” an exhibition of close to 40 works by leading Barbizon figures and by later French and American artists who were influenced by the school.
Deadly genetic disease stopped before zebrafish birth
School of Medicine research could lead to the prevention up to one-fifth of birth defects in humans caused by genetic mutations.