The Record

Students design prototype garments for disabled athletes

For elite Paralympic wheelchair athletes, the hard-hitting sport of rugby can pose particular challenges. A cross-disciplinary team of students and faculty have worked to research, design and construct prototype garments tailored to the needs of such athletes.

Medical school faculty named to National Academy of Inventors

School of Medicine faculty members and innovators Samuel Achilefu (left), David Holtzman, MD, and Eric Leuthardt, MD, have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. The 2017 class was announced Tuesday.

Key to tackling childhood obesity: involve families, follow up

To help children lose weight, School of Medicine researchers led by Denise Wilfley tested a family-based treatment. Parents were taught to engineer a healthy home environment and to model healthy behaviors for their kids.

Student’s pumpkin-white chocolate cookie wins contest

Cole Warner, a senior in Arts & Sciences, makes a killer cookie. His recipe for pumpkin-white chocolate chip snickerdoodles bested about 80 recipes to win the Judges’ Pick award for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Cookie Contest.