The Record

Incoming medical students receive crash course in health disparities

First-year students at the School of Medicine plunged into the realities of health-care disparities during a four-day orientation. The program focuses on preparing students to care for underprivileged patients.

For the Sake of All: The next steps

For the Sake of All, the groundbreaking multidisciplinary project on the health and well-being of African-Americans in St. Louis, launched three years ago. The initiative, led by Jason Purnell, of the Brown School, now moves into implementing strategies.

Faculty team to study how ‘swimming cells’ move

They are the tiny motors present in many of the human body’s most complex systems. But how cilia and flagella actually move remains a mystery. A team of engineering and medical faculty has received a five-year, $1.25 million grant to study the organelles’ mechanics.

Jazz at Holmes begins tonight

St. Louis piano legend Ptah Williams (left) will join university guitarist William Lenihan and drummer Steve Davis to launch the fall Jazz at Holmes Series at 8 p.m. tonight in Holmes Lounge.