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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 (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/835.html) 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 / djoshu@wustl.edu |
| Matthew Kreuter Professor (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/837.html) 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 / mkreuter@wustl.edu |
| Juan Peña Assistant professor (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/838.html) 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 / jpena@wustl.edu |
| Sara Friedman Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Arts and Sciences (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/510.html) Expertise: gender and sexuality, marriage and kinship, socialism, cultural and political change, subjectivity, gender and labor politics, ethnicity, … Direct contact: (314) 935-8066 / sfried@wustl.edu |
| Glenn Davis Stone Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Environmental Studies in Arts & Sciences (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/477.html) 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 / stone@artsci.wustl.edu |
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| Racial gap closes for cancer incidence Racial disparities decline for cancer in Missouri (http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/12488.html) Sept. 23, 2008 -- Cancer death rates in the United States are highest among African Americans, but a new report shows that in Missouri the disparity in cancer incidence and death between African Americans and whites is declining. As a result, cancer incidence (the rate of newly diagnosed cases) between the races is equal, although the death rate will probably remain higher for African Americans for some time. |
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| Harriet Hosmer Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to showcase pioneering sculptor May 2 to July 21 0 (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11611.html) April 23, 2008 --
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| An expert on race relations Poussaint to speak on tolerance and diversity (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11470.html) April 9, 2008 -- An expert on race relations, prejudice and diversity issues in a multicultural society, Alvin Poussaint, M.D., will present the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture for the Assembly Series. The talk will be held at 4 p.m., Tuesday, April 15, in the Laboratory Sciences Auditorium on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. |
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| Show me a showdown
The Economist (UK) Aug. 28, 2008 -- Who can win the state whose capture traditionally leads to the White House? There are ways to win the White House without winning Missouri, but few candidates have managed it. WUSTL political rhetoric expert Wayne Fields comments on Missouri's bellwether status. |
| Teens' risky drinking linked to infertility
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) and 3 others Aug. 26, 2008 -- Heavy drinking by females in their teens and 20s may reduce their chances of motherhood later in life, new research has found. The study by WUSTL researchers was led by psychiatry professor Mary Waldron. |
| Vetted Judges More Likely to Reject Asylum Bids
The New York Times and 8 others Aug. 25, 2008 -- Immigrants seeking asylum in the United States have been disproportionately rejected by judges whom the Bush administration chose using a conservative political litmus test, according to an analysis of Justice Department data. WUSTL immigration law professor Stephen Legomsky comments. |
| Financial literacy leads to positive change
Chicago Tribune Aug. 5, 2008 -- Asset Builders CDC executive director Cecilia Salinas responds to critics of the benefits of financial literacy saying, "We have learned education does make a difference in changing behavior and establishing savings habits." "Nationally a recent report by the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis noted positive changes in financial behavior resulting from participation in the IDA program and financial education classes." |
| Edit your DNA: 'Gene wiki' to debut on Wikipedia
The Associated Press State & Local Wire and 29 others July 9, 2008 -- Researchers on Tuesday launched an effort to create a library of human genetics using the online encyclopedia Wikipedia in hopes it could spur widespread discussion about thousands of individual genes. Authors of the "gene wiki" group outlined its lofty aims in a paper published on the Public Library of Science's online journal, PLoS Biology. The eight authors are from the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation in San Diego, San Diego State University and Washington University in St. Louis. |
| Commentary: Improving breast cancer treatment
MSNBC.com July 1, 2008 -- A recent conference brought together many of the most committed breast cancer activists with some of the nation's top cancer scientists. The conference's directive is to push researchers to think "out of the box" for potential treatments, methods of detection and prevention in new ways. WUSTL surgeon Graham Colditz comments. |
| Metabolic Syndrome May Be in the Genes
Washington Post and 9 others June 20, 2008 -- People with metabolic syndrome run four times the risk of heart disease and seven times the risk of diabetes as those without the condition. According to the June issue of Human Molecular Genetics, WUSTL nutrition researchers found the variations on the CD36 gene, located in a part of chromosome 7 previously associated with metabolic syndrome in other studies. |
| I now pronounce you . . . friend and friend
Boston Globe June 9, 2008 -- A number of scholars are seeking to shore up friendship in a surprising way: by granting it legal recognition. Some of the rights and privileges restricted to family, they argue, should be given to friends. WUSTL law professor Laura Rosenbury comments. |
| Should states lower the legal drinking age?
Los Angeles Times June 9, 2008 -- Several states are considering lowering the legal drinking age from 21 to 18. Evidence is accumulating that waiting until age 21 to drink dramatically cuts the risk of developing alcoholism. One study on women and alcohol dependence was led by WUSTL psychiatry professor Richard Grucza. |
| Drunk driving on rise with women in afternoon
NBC Today Show May 30, 2008 -- In a series on the issue of women and alcohol, NBC Today Show's Janet Shamlian reports on women and drinking and driving. She refers to a study led by WUSTL psychiatry professor Richard Grucza that found a substantial increase in drinking and alcohol use among American women born between 1954 and 1963, with a notable increase of 50 percent among white and Hispanic women. |
| Taking Them Out to the Ballgame
The Washington Post May 29, 2008 -- Interest in the baseball among black youths is a topic of concern for MLB as more of that demographic seems to be interested in football and basketball. WUSTL professor Gerald Early, an expert on black culture, attributes this to the lack of availability of baseball in many black communities. |
| Liberal Intolerance on College Campuses
Fox - The O'Reilly Factor May 21, 2008 -- Laura Ingraham interviews two students on the subject of liberal intolerance on college campuses. WUSTL student Jill Strominger comments. |
| Northwestern Rescinds Wright's Honorary Degree
NPR - Talk of the Nation May 21, 2008 -- Host Neal Conan talks to the Weekly Standard's Joseph Epstein about Northwestern offering and then rescinding an honorary degree to Reverend Jeremiah Wright. One of the callers was a WUSTL alum named Mark who described the protest against Phyllis Schlafly at WUSTL's commencement. |
| Students, faculty protest Schlafly at commencement
Associated Press State & Local Wire and 62 others May 19, 2008 -- Hundreds of WUSTL students and faculty staged a silent protest as conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly received an honorary degree at the 147th Commencement. |
| Exercise may protect girls from future breast cancer
Associated Press and 206 others May 14, 2008 -- New research shows exercise during the teen years — starting as young as age 12 — can help protect girls from breast cancer when they're grown. "This really points to the benefit of sustained physical activity from adolescence through the adult years, to get the maximum benefit," said WUSTL surgery professor Graham Colditz, the study's lead author. |
| Protest planned against Schlafly receiving honorary degree
Associated Press State & Local Wire and 3 others May 12, 2008 -- Some faculty and students at WUSTL plan to protest at commencement to show their disapproval for the university's decision to award conservative leader Phyllis Schlafly an honorary degree on Friday. The director of WUSTL's woman and gender studies program, Mary Ann Dzuback, comments. |
| Alcoholism Gender Gap Is Closing
The Washington Post and 8 others May 7, 2008 -- Drinking and alcohol dependence has increased substantially among women, particularly white and Hispanic women born since 1945, new study finds. The findings were published in the May issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. WUSTL psychiatry professor and corresponding author Richard Grucza comments. |
| The roots of alcoholism . . . in the genes?
Los Angeles Times April 30, 2008 -- WUSTL psychiatry professor and lead author Carolyn Sartor comments on a new WUSTL study that says: Young people often begin drinking alcohol because of environmental factors, such as peer pressure. But genes appear to be a significant factor in determining whether drinking progresses to problem drinking and alcoholism. |
| Genes Explain Race Disparity in Response to a Heart Drug
The New York Times and 5 others April 29, 2008 -- Doctors who treat patients with heart failure have long been puzzled that many black patients seem to not respond to a class of drugs called beta blockers. Now researchers at WUSTL and U. Maryland have found that these nonresponsive patients have a slightly altered version of a gene that muscles use to control responses to nerve signals. The discovery raises questions about whom to treat with beta blockers and how to decide, researchers say. But, they add, its implications go beyond heart failure. WUSTL cardiologist and principal investigator Gerald Dorn comments. |
| Genetic link to alcoholism in women discovered
XETC-TV FOX 6 News at 6 a.m. (San Diego CA) and 7 others April 25, 2008 -- Story on the WUSTL medical school research on the genetic link to alcoholism in women. Includes video link to the news story. |
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Research reveals huge gaps in net worth between elderly blacks, whites (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/2002/culture-living/elderly_income.html)
Dec. 2000 - A recent study indicates enormous differences in net worth between elderly black and white people - even among groups with relatively similar educational backgrounds and work histories. The majority of the black elderly retirees also earned less than half that of white elderly people during their total working years, according to the study published in the "Social Work Research" journal.
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