School of Medicine

The School of Medicine Class of 2015 recites the Student Oath they wrote during orientation at the White Coat Ceremony Aug. 12 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center. The 121 students in the class were given white coats, a longtime symbol of the medical profession.

Both the Danforth and Medical campuses at WUSTL held many events to celebrate the week of Earth Day April 18-23. At the Medical Campus, Courtney Pike and Liz Wright talk to Changguo Tang, PhD, about gardening and water conservation in front of the BJC Institute of Health at Washington University School of Medicine April 20.

A parasite and a virus may be teaming up in a way that increases the parasite’s ability to harm humans, scientists at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report this week in Science.

School of Medicine students showcase their artistic talents at the Dec. 2 coffeehouse at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center. Medical students such as Kristen Danley gather a few times a year to sing, play piano and other instruments and read poetry.

Scientists battling Leishmania, a parasite second only to malaria in the number of deaths it causes, have identified an important vulnerability in the genetic code of one major parasite strain.

A piece of medical and computer history is at the center of a new exhibit at the Bernard Becker Medical Library at Washington University School of Medicine. The Laboratory INstrument Computer (LINC), regarded as one of the first personal computers, will be on display at the Medical School until August then move to the Danforth Campus.

The School of Medicine’s Farmer’s Market is held every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. April through September in the fountain plaza outside of the Barnes & Noble bookstore.

The three witches on the stormy heath had no trouble foretelling Macbeth’s kingly future. But seven or eight decades ago, those hags would have had a harder time choosing one storyline for a young Lawrence Kahn. He had a rich and complex life ahead of him.

Barry Sleckman, MD, PhD, was a busy young entrepreneur and disaffected commuter college student when his life began taking a sudden series of unexpected turns in the late 1970s.

Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD, was the keynote speaker at the Medical Scientist Training Program 40th Anniversary Symposium April 9 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center.