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In the wide-ranging area of diversity, race and gender issues, Washington University has many distinguished faculty experts in the areas of African and Afro-American Studies, Women's Studies, Education and American Culture Studies.
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Debra Haire-Joshu
Professor314-362-9554
Debra Haire-Joshu is an internationally renowned scholar of health behavior who develops population wide interventions to reduce obesity and prevent diabetes, particularly among underserved youth.
Expertise: Health policy, obesity and diabetes prevention in underserved populations, public health
Direct contact: 314-362-9554
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djoshu@wustl.edu
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Matthew Kreuter
Professor
Matt Kreuter is a leading national public health expert in the field of health communications.
Expertise: Health communication, cancer prevention and control, health disparities
Direct contact: 314-935-3701
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mkreuter@wustl.edu
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Juan Peña
Assistant professor
Juan Peña's research interests include suicide prevention, HIV prevention, adolescence, Latinos, and acculturation.
Expertise: Suicide prevention, HIV prevention, adolescence, Latinos, acculturation
Direct contact: 314-935-9636
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jpena@wustl.edu
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Sara Friedman
Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Arts and Sciences
Expertise: gender and sexuality, marriage and kinship, socialism, cultural and political change, subjectivity, gender and labor politics, ethnicity, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-8066
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sfried@wustl.edu
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Glenn Davis Stone
Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Environmental Studies in Arts & Sciences
Stone is an ecological anthropologist who has studied indigenous agricultural systems for the past 20 years. He has written extensively on intensification, labor organization, sexual division of labor, ethnicity and production, spatial organization and especially relationships between population, conflict ...
Expertise: ecological anthropology, political and historical ecology, agricultural biotechnology, settlement patterns, population, ethnoarchaeology, Web-based scholarship, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5239
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stone@artsci.wustl.edu
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Rachel Croson to discuss status of women in academia
New speaker series to feature prominent women scholars
April 13,
2009 --
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"The Status of Women in Academia" will be the topic of one of two lectures when Rachel T. A. Croson, Ph.D. visits the Danforth Campus April 14 and 15 in a new series launched by The Center for Research in Economics and Strategy at the Olin Business School.
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"The Intellectual's Dilemma"
2009 Callaloo Conference to explore African-American arts and letters
March 16,
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Have African-American intellectuals abandoned the Civil Rights Movement? Do black academics need to reengage the larger community, and if so, how? What is the relationship between contemporary politics and popular culture? Some of the nation's most prominent African-American writers and thinkers will address these questions and more during the 2009 Callaloo Conference, which takes place March 25-28 at Washington University in St. Louis.
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African Film Festival at Washington University March 23-26
Traveling Film Series to feature eight films from six nations
March 3,
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The annual Washington University African Film Festival will be held March 26-29. The event will feature films that emphasize movement and migration and their impact on African's shifting identities. All screenings are free and open to the public and begin at 7 p.m. each evening in Brown Hall, Room 100. A postshow discussion and reception will follow Saturday's films.
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Patterns: Drinking Age Affects Bingeing, to a Point
The New York Times
June 30,
2009 -- A new study in The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry finds that as the drinking age has gone up, binge drinking has gone down -- except among college students. Includes comments by study leader WUSTL psychiatry professor Richard Grucza.
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Black Reverence for Jackson Is Now Unreserved
The New York Times
and 11 others
June 29,
2009 -- Around the world, Michael Jackson was celebrated Sunday, but there was a special fervor in black neighborhoods and churches. Jackson is seen as a towering figure with crossover appeal, even if in life some of his black fans wondered if he was as proud of his race as his race was of him. Includes comments by WUSTL AFAS professor Gerald Early.
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Gunman shoots, kills guard at Holocaust Museum
Associated Press
and 51 others
June 11,
2009 -- Story on James von Brunn, the accused 88-year-old gunman with a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past, who opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot himself. According to a relative, von Brunn attended WUSTL and is an artist.
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Gene Mutation May Up Risks of Endometrial Cancer
U.S. News & World Report online
and 8 others
May 27,
2009 -- A genetic marker for aggressive endometrial cancer has been identified by U.S. researchers, who said their finding could lead to more targeted and risk-appropriate treatments. WUSTL gynecologic oncologist Israel Zighelboim comments on the study that appears online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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What another woman would bring to Supreme Court
The Christian Science Monitor online
May 19,
2009 -- Expectations are high that Obama will nominate a woman to the Supreme Court. A recent study by three academics focusing on the votes of federal court of appeals judges bears out the observation that a conservative woman acts more pro-women's rights than a conservative man. The research was conducted by WUSTL law and political science professor Andrew Martin and WUSTL political science doctoral student Christina Boyd, along with Lee Epstein of Northwestern University Law School in Chicago.
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Students in urban schools get big boost from pioneering tutor program
The Christian Science Monitor
April 8,
2009 -- A new WUSTL social work study shows that comprehension and other critical skills improve dramatically with one-on-one help from Experience Corps' volunteers. WUSTL social work professor Nancy Morrow-Howell comments.
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Break It to 'Em Gently: Telling Kids About Financial Woes
The Wall Street Journal
March 25,
2009 -- Advice for parents explaining to children what changes may need to take place when a family faces economic hardship. WUSTL senior consultant and author Karen Levin Coburn.
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Combo Screening Doesn't Spot Early Ovarian Cancer
U.S. News & World Report
and 3 others
March 24,
2009 -- A screening regimen that combines ultrasound and a blood test to detect a marker for ovarian cancer, fails to discover the cancer in its early stages and often results in unnecessary surgery, a new study shows. WUSTL ob gyn professor David Mutch, who wrote an accompanying journal editorial, comments.
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Women Less Apt to Get Clot-Buster, Study Finds
U.S. News & World Report online
and 3 others
Feb. 24,
2009 -- Gender definitely makes a difference when it comes to stroke, new research shows. WUSTL neurology professor Mark Goldberg comments.
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Push is on to tailor cancer care to tumor's genes
Associated Press
and 122 others
Feb. 17,
2009 -- The days of one-size-fits-all cancer treatment are numbered: A rush of new research is pointing the way to tailor chemotherapy and other care to what's written in your tumor's genes. WUSTL oncologist Matthew Ellis, co-inventor of a different breast cancer genetic approach, comments.
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Who Gets What: Billions to colleges and students
Associated Press
and 56 others
Feb. 9,
2009 -- The stimulus plan emerging in Washington could offer an unprecedented, multibillion-dollar boost in financial help for college students. Both the House and Senate bills call for the largest-ever funding increase for Pell Grants, the government's chief college aid program for low-income students. It could also hand out billions to the states to kick-start idled campus construction projects, including new dorms at WUSTL.
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Black History Month has added meaning in 2009
USA Today
and 3 others
Feb. 2,
2009 -- Obama's election, and this year's 100th anniversary of the NAACP, means there has probably never been more reason to celebrate the annual February observance, black leaders and historians say. Includes comments by WUSTL AFAS professor Gerald Early.
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Discussing Family Finances With a Student
The Wall Street Journal online
Jan. 29,
2009 -- Sue Shellenbarger refers to advice offered by WUSTL senior consultant Karen Coburn, about how parents should talk to college-age kids about a downturn in family finances.
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Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison talks about her book 'Leading Ladies: American Trailblazers'
CSPAN3 Contemporary History (national)
Jan. 28,
2009 -- Contemporary History features Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison talking about her book on trailblazing American women. In a chapter on women in science, she tells the story of WUSTL scientists Carl and Gerty Cori, who received the Nobel Prize for science in 1947 for their work on the way sugar is metabolized in the body. Their work became the basis for treatment of diabetes. ...
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A moment in history: The American story renewed
Associated Press
and 32 others
Jan. 21,
2009 -- WUSTL cultural historian Peter Kastor comments on Obama's place in America's history.
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Obama's speech a quiet call to arms for Americans
Associated Press
and 37 others
Jan. 21,
2009 -- Barack Obama used his inaugural address Tuesday to sketch a portrait of the nation as it is, and as it should be. Includes comments by WUSTL presidential rhetoric expert Wayne Fields.
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Financial Aid Applications Rise by 10 Percent
U.S. News & World Report online
Jan. 14,
2009 -- Like a tornado, the economic downturn appears to be touching down and wreaking financial aid havoc for some colleges while leaving others unscathed. Financial aid officers at Boston College and Washington University in St. Louis report no dramatic increase in requests for scholarships.
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Novel Technique Changes Lymph Node Biopsy, Reduces Radiation Exposure
ScienceDaily.com
Jan. 14,
2009 -- Information obtained from a new application of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is worth its weight in gold to breast cancer patients. The work of WUSTL biomedical engineering researchers Lihong Wang and Younan Xia, supported by the NIH, can minimize invasive surgical lymph node biopsy procedures to determine if breast cancer has metastasized and reduce the patient's exposure to radioactivity.
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Immigration raids may have aided unionization
Associated Press State & Local Wire
and 7 others
Jan. 2,
2009 -- Immigration raids that purged the world's largest pork slaughterhouse of illegal Hispanic workers may have made it ripe for unionization. Includes comments by WUSTL labor law expert Marion Crain.
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Black churches help enlist first-time blood donors
Reuters Health Medical News
and 4 others
Dec. 29,
2008 -- Black churches that hold blood drives after informing parishioners about the importance of blood donations for children with sickle cell disease will get a big upsurge in first-time donors, new research shows. WUSTL School of Medicine sickle cell researcher Michael DeBaun comments.
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