A marker for Alzheimer’s disease rises and falls in the spinal fluid in a daily pattern that echoes the sleep cycle, researchers at the School of Medicine have found. The pattern is strongest in healthy young people and reinforces a link between increased Alzheimer’s risk and inadequate sleep that had been discovered in animal models.

Washington University, along with two other organizations, is getting behind BioSTL (evolved from the Coalition for Plant and Life Sciences), a new regional organization to champion St. Louis bioscience. The funding, announced Sept. 27, will forward bioscience company creation and drive economic growth in St. Louis.

Maxine Lipeles, JD, co-director of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic, participates in “speed” mentoring sessions with law students at Washington University School of Law during Women’s Law Day Sept. 21 in Crowder Courtyard of Anheuser-Busch Hall.

People head to the beach to escape the stress of everyday life, but a new study out of the Brown School finds that there are peak times to reap the restorative benefit. “Mild temperature days and low tides offer the most restorative environments when visiting the beach,” says J. Aaron Hipp, PhD, environmental health expert and assistant professor at the Brown School.

4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28

Dept. of Psychology lecture

“Retrieval Modifies Memory: Negative Emotion Following Retrieval Enhances the Testing Effect.” Bridgid Finn, postdoctoral research assoc. in psychology. Free and open to the public. Psychology Bldg., Rm. 216. (314) 935-6565.

Deadline to join WUSTL delegation at U.N. Climate Change Conference tomorrow

WUSTL recently was granted the opportunity to send a delegation to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in November in South Africa. Deadline to join the group is tomorrow, and an informational meeting is set for tonight at 6 p.m. in Room 276 of the Danforth University Center.

Brent Ruoff, MD

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Women’s golf sweeps Millikin Fall Classic

The No. 7 women’s golf team captured the Millikin Fall Classic last weekend with a team score of 589. WUSTL posted a 56-stroke victory over second place North Central College. Freshman Olivia Lugar captured her third individual title.