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WUSTL key player in EPA's new initiative
Min Ha Yoon (left), a freshman chemistry student in Arts & Sciences, reaches for a solution of iodine as she explains a chemistry experiment to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson in the Laboratory Sciences Building, home to state-of-the-art fume hoods. Johnson was on campus to announce the development of a new national compliance assistance center for colleges and universities involving a consortium of higher education organizations to which Washington University belongs. In remarks at a ceremony, Johnson recognized the leadership that Washington University has shown in managing hazardous waste and in its many environmental endeavors.
Teenager moves video icons just by imagination
Teenage boys and computer games go hand-in-hand. Now, a St. Louis-area teenage boy and a computer game have gone hands-off, thanks to a unique experiment conducted by a team of neurosurgeons, neurologists and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis. The boy, a 14-year-old who suffers from epilepsy, is the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game — Space Invaders — using only the signals from his brain to make movements.
WUSTL dietitian offers substitutes for spinach's nutrients
While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has lifted the ban on fresh spinach and the produce is back on many grocery store shelves and restaurant plates, some consumers may not be so eager to return to eating the leafy greens that left at least three people dead and 199 others sickened across 26 states after an E coli O157:H7 outbreak. Connie Diekman, R.D., director of University Nutrition, offers advice on finding alternative sources of the nutrients offered by spinach.
Giant turtle treated by WUSTL surgeon
Pebbles, a giant tortoise at the Saint Louis Zoo, gets checked out by John P. Kirby, M.D. (far right), assistant professor of surgery and director of the School of Medicine's Wound Healing Program. Kirby treated a wound on Pebbles' shell, with assistance from Linda Stamm (far left) and Laurel Wiersema-Bryant, nurse practitioners at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and Zoo veterinarian Michael Adkesson.
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