Online Message Boards Provide Outlets for Mothers’ Concerns

Posted On Thursday, January 10, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , ,   
Online Message BoardsCOLUMBIA, Mo. –Parenting infants and toddlers can be challenging, and for generations, mothers have turned to other moms for advice. Now, with the availability of the Internet, mothers are consulting each other using modern venues: online message boards. Research from the University of Missouri indicates online discussion boards provide safe ...

Recognizing Psychological Common Ground Could Ease Tensions Among Those with Different Religious Beliefs

Posted On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , , ,   
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Understanding how thoughts of mortality influence individuals’ beliefs sheds light on the commonalities among different groups’ motivations and could help ease tensions between opposing viewpoints, according to University of Missouri experiments that tested the relationship between awareness of death and belief in a higher power. The study ...

Siteman Cancer Center to Open South St. Louis County location Jan. 7

Posted On Sunday, January 6, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , ,   
Siteman Cancer CenterThe Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine will begin seeing patients Jan. 7 at its newest outpatient location, in south St. Louis County. Located at Interstate 55 and Butler Hill Road, Siteman Cancer Center-South County offers access to the same advanced treatments, including more than ...

UMKC Vision Research Center Awarded National Institute On Aging Grant

Posted On Friday, January 4, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , ,   
UMKC Vision Research Center Awarded National Institute On Aging Grant KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the UMKC School of Medicine Vision Research Center (VRC) a five-year, $1.335 million grant to support the development of new drug therapies for protecting nerve cells from degeneration caused by chronic diseases. Peter Koulen, ...

Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology Names Distinguished Professor of Mechanics

Posted On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , ,   
Paul C. Paris, Ph.D., known as the father of modern methods for predicting crack growth and its control in aircraft structures, has been named a Distinguished Professor of Mechanics at Saint Louis University's Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology. A distinguished professorship is the highest honor that can be bestowed ...

Eight Missouri Schools In The Running For ‘Blue Ribbon’ Recognition

Posted On Sunday, December 30, 2012 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , ,   
Eight public schools in Missouri have been invited by the U.S. Department of Education to apply for national Blue Ribbon Schools recognition. The Blue Ribbon Schools Program recognizes schools where students are achieving at high levels or where significant progress is being made in closing achievement gaps, especially for disadvantaged and ...

Ultrasound Diagnoses Appendicitis Without X-Rays

Posted On Friday, December 28, 2012 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , ,   
Ultrasound Diagnoses Appendicitis Without X-RaysChildren suspected of having appendicitis are more likely to receive CT scans, which involve radiation, if they are evaluated at a general hospital, a new study by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown. Similar patients who went to St. Louis Children’s Hospital were more often evaluated with ...

Medical School Instructors, Staff Lauded​​

Posted On Sunday, December 23, 2012 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , , ,   
Washington University medical students recently presented Distinguished Service Teaching Awards to School of Medicine faculty and house staff to show appreciation for exemplary service in medical student education. The awards were for the 2011-12 academic year. Initiated by students and implemented with support from the Office of Medical Student Education, the awards ...

Father’s Death Affects Early Adolescents Futures in Developing World

Posted On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , ,   
COLUMBIA, Mo. – A father’s death can have long-term effects on a child’s later success in life and can be particularly harmful if the father passes away during a child’s late childhood or early adolescence, according to new research by a University of Missouri anthropologist. Recognizing the impact that a ...

Three New Species of Venomous Primate Identified by MU Researcher

Posted On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , , ,   
A venomous primate with two tongues would seem safe from the pet trade, but the big-eyed, teddy-bear face of the slow loris (Nycticebus sp.) has made them a target for illegal pet poachers throughout the animal’s range in southeastern Asia and nearby islands. A University of Missouri doctoral student and ...

Pediatric Program For Brain Injuries Saves Lives, Reduces Disabilities

Posted On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , ,   
Pediatric Program For Brain Injuries Saves Lives, Reduces Disabilities Children with traumatic brain injuries are more likely to survive and avoid long-term disabilities when treated aggressively as part of a designated neurocritical care program that brings together neurologists, neurosurgeons, trauma and other critical-care specialists, according to a new study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The investigators ...

Siteman Cancer Research Fund Grants $2 Million for Unique Approaches to Fighting Cancer

Posted On Friday, December 14, 2012 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , , ,   
Five scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a combined $2 million in grants for their innovative approaches to fighting cancer. The awards, from the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Research Fund, are meant to further promising early-stage science that might not receive funding from elsewhere because ...

Keenum Tapped For APLU Organization’s Board

Posted On Friday, December 14, 2012 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , ,   
Keenum Tapped For APLU Organization's Board STARKVILLE, Miss.--The president of Mississippi State University has been elected to a key leadership role in the organization that represents the nation's leading research and land-grant universities. Mark E. Keenum recently was elected to a term on the American Public Land-Grant Universities Board of Directors. Based in Washington, D.C., the Association ...

Into Adulthood, Sickle Cell Patients Rely On ER

Posted On Wednesday, December 12, 2012 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , ,   
Patients with sickle cell disease rely more on the emergency room as they move from pediatric to adult health care, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. An analysis of Medicaid data of more than 3,200 patients with sickle cell disease shows that emergency room visits ...

Little Sun Solar Lamp Bridges Art And Outreach

Posted On Thursday, December 6, 2012 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , , ,   
For school-aged children across much of the developing world, access to electrical lighting remains precarious. Many rural farming villages exist “off the grid.” Major cities from Nairobi to Kolkata are subject to regular blackouts — a phenomenon from which even the United States, as Hurricane Sandy demonstrated, is not entirely ...

As Cigarette Taxes Go Up, Heavy Smoking Goes Down

Posted On Monday, December 3, 2012 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , ,   
When cigarette taxes rise, hard-core smokers are more likely than lighter smokers to cut back, according to new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. “Most clinicians and researchers thought these very heavy smokers would be the most resistant to price increases,” says first author Patricia A. Cavazos-Rehg, ...

Electric-Vehicle Chargers Installed Outside of Brauer Hall

Posted On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , , , ,   
That’s not a new parking meter or air pump for your tires outside of Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall — it’s a charging station for electric vehicles. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton; Ralph Quatrano, PhD, dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and Pratim Biswas, PhD, the Lucy ...

UMKC School of Education Announces Programming Changes in Northland

Posted On Friday, November 23, 2012 By . Under MISSOURI  Tags: , ,   
The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Education is modifying the content and the delivery sites of its programming in Kansas City, North to better serve the needs of Northland educators and school districts. Beginning spring semester 2013, coursework for new and existing students will be offered in North Kansas City School District buildings ...
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