Friday, Dec. 10, 2021
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Researchers at the School of Medicine, studying mice, have identified a drug compound that makes pancreatic cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy. The study is published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. |
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Xuan “Silvia” Zhang’s lab at the McKelvey School of Engineering has reached a theoretical limit for efficiently converting analog data into digital bits in an emerging computer technology. |
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The School of Medicine will begin construction in the spring on a six floor-expansion on top of the Steven & Susan Lipstein BJC Institute of Health building. The addition, estimated to cost $150 million, will include 160,000 square feet of state-of-the-art laboratory space. |
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In a new book, “Why Privacy Matters,” one of the world’s leading privacy law experts, Neil Richards at the School of Law, argues that privacy is not dead, but is up for grabs. |
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Women of color are leading the reproductive justice movement, which expands the conversation beyond abortion to include the broader range of reproductive experiences, according to sociologist Zakiya Luna in Arts & Sciences. |
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Notables Anya Plutynski, associate professor of philosophy in Arts & Sciences, has won the 2021 Lakatos Award for her 2018 book “Explaining Cancer: Finding Order in Disorder.” The award is given by the London School of Economics. |
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Notables HomeGrown StL, an initiative born of the Race and Opportunity Lab at the Brown School, recently formed a Regional Steering Committee to provide direct community governance to
address issues impacting Black boys and young men in the St. Louis region. |
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Research Wire Richard W. Gross, PhD, MD, professor at the School of Medicine and in Arts & Sciences, received a four-year $2.3 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research bioenergetics. |
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Announcements The School of Medicine is gearing up for its upcoming accreditation process. School representatives will welcome members of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education to the Medical Campus Feb. 19-22, 2023, as part of the accreditation process. |
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Perspectives
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Historian Peter Kastor in Arts & Sciences discusses his latest project, which aims, through both a book and a database, to reconstruct and understand the federal government at the moment of its creation.
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