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Scientists have assembled the most detailed chronology to date of the human brain’s long, slow slide into full-blown Alzheimer’s disease. Through an international research partnership, scientists, including first author Randall Bateman (right), evaluated pre-symptomatic markers of the disease in subjects from families genetically predisposed to the disorder.

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Four staff members — including Assistant Dean Sean McWilliams (right) — received the Arts & Sciences Outstanding Staff Award. Presented annually, the award honors non-teaching personnel for creative contributions and exemplary performance that significantly enhances teaching, advising, counseling and research efforts in Arts & Sciences.

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WUSTL Department of Pediatrics and St. Louis Children’s Hospital have been catapulted into the national spotlight by the simultaneous election of five pediatric faculty into the top national leadership roles in large and distinguished medical societies.

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Two WUSTL professors — Peter J. Kastor, PhD, and Jessica Rosenfeld, PhD — have been named 2012 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellows. Kastor, professor of history and of American culture studies, both in Arts & Sciences, will pursue research on Creating a Federal Government, 1789-1829. Rosenfeld, associate professor of English in Arts & Sciences, will work on her book Envying Thy Neighbor: Pleasure, Identity and Gender in Late Medieval Literature.

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Cleon R. Yohe Jr., PhD, emeritus professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences, died Tuesday, June 26, of cancer. He was 70.

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