The Record

University partners in $12M NIH grant on retail tobacco policies

University researchers, along with colleagues at North Carolina and Stanford, are recipients of a five-year, $11.6 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant. The goal is to build evidence for effective retail policies to reduce tobacco use and its public health burden.

University joins network for solving rare medical mysteries

The School of Medicine is joining a national research network aimed at diagnosing rare, previously undescribed diseases in patients whose conditions present as medical mysteries. The NIH funds the Undiagnosed Diseases Network.

Research confronts ‘yucky’ attitudes about genetically engineered foods

The question of what constitutes “naturalness” — and consumers’ attitudes about it — lies at the heart of research from lead author Sydney Scott, assistant professor of marketing at Olin Business School.

Statistically sound

Dozens of statistics researchers recently gathered for a workshop on the Danforth Campus. Organized by Todd Kuffner of Arts & Sciences, this was the event’s third year on campus, and the first since the department changed its name this summer to Mathematics and Statistics.

Kreisel named Patterson/ Mid-America Transplant Chair

Daniel Kreisel, MD, PhD (right), surgical director of lung transplantation at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, has been named the inaugural G. Alexander Patterson, MD/Mid-America Transplant Endowed Distinguished Chair in Lung Transplantation.

WashU Spaces: Holmes Lounge

For the latest edition of WashU Spaces, Kellie Mandry, assistant director for facilities, offers a tour of a refreshed Holmes Lounge and shares what has changed and what will forever remain the same.