One of the most promising markers of Alzheimer’s disease, previously thought only to be inside nerve cells, now appears to be normally released from nerve cells throughout life, according to School of Medicine researchers.

Tekno Bubbles employee Tim Tatz hands out bubble soap to children during the Family Learning Center’s one-year anniversary celebration Sept. 16 on the North Campus. The event for the center’s parents and children featured a bubble artist, bounce house, face painter, children’s entertainer and more.

Japanese body art, elaborate tattoos and fashion are among topics to be explored as the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in Arts & Sciences opens its fall seminar series, Japan Embodied: New Approaches to Japanese Studies, at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, in Busch Hall.

Nearly 50 first-year students created their own chapter to the novel The Cellist of Sarajevo as part of the First-Year Reading Program contest. Five contest winners were treated to lunch with author Steven Galloway, including Juliet Kinder (right), who won the grand prize and a $250 gift certificate to the Campus Store.

Mary C. Molloy, secretary and receptionist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science since 1981, died Sept. 3, 2011, of a stroke. She was 81.

4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22

Center for the Humanities Lecture

“What Did ‘Integration’ Mean? Liberals and the 1965 Conference on ‘The Negro American.’” Daniel Geary, Trinity College, Dublin. Co-sponsored by depts. of History, African & African-American Studies and American Culture Studies. Free and open to the public. Refreshments served. Danforth University Center, Rm. 276. (314) 935-5576.

‘Deadly Medicine’ panel discussion today

A panel discussion “Deadly Medicine: Beyond the Era of National Socialism” featuring WUSTL faculty will be held at 5:30 p.m. in Moore Auditorium, North Building, on the Medical Campus. It is free and open to the public. The discussion ties into the “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race” exhibit, which highlights how physicians, geneticists, anthropologists and others were participants in the Holocaust, at the Bernard Becker Medical Library through Oct. 30.

Igor Efimov, PhD

Biomedical engineer works to restore the heart’s rhythm. FULL STORY

Women’s golf captures IWU Fall Classic

The No. 7 women’s golf team fought through tough conditions Sept. 18 to hold off No. 2 DePauw University and win the Illinois Wesleyan University Fall Classic in Bloomington, Ill. The Bears finished with a 36-hole total of 617, four strokes better than DePauw.