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An investigational treatment for an inherited form of Lou Gehrig’s disease has passed an early phase clinical trial for safety, researchers at the School of Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital report. A mutated protein that causes an inherited form of Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS, leads to clumps in the human cells (pictured). The therapy blocks production of the protein.
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St. Louis is becoming widely recognized as a hub for entrepreneurship, and WUSTL students are taking advantage of the close proximity to great resources by starting their own business ventures — with the help of a groundbreaking Olin Business School class called The Hatchery. Shown, students hold the Olin Cup, the top prize in a campus entrepreneurship competition.
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Thirty-four WUSTL offices earned certification in the first year of the Green Offices Program, and two — the Institute for Public Health and Environmental Health & Safety — achieved the gold level. The program uses a points-based, self-assessment checklist to help university offices become sustainability champions. The plaques, made out of reclaimed lumber, embody the values of sustainability.
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In Contemporary German Art: Selections From the Permanent Collection, the Kemper Art Museum highlights 16 large-scale works completed within the last 12 years by artists in Germany. The exhibit complements the opening of a major expansion at the Saint Louis Art Museum, which will showcase its own holdings of postwar German art.
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He’s dashing, debonair and fluent in at least six languages. He has escaped the insides of balloons and rollerbladed on the Late Show with David Letterman. He can honk Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in a space suit of bicycle horns. He is Michel Lauzière, the master of unusual comedy, and he’s coming to Edison Theatre.
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7 p.m. Wednesday, May 1
This screening features videos created by WUSTL students in the Digital Studio. 60x60 contains 60 compositions with videos — each 60 seconds in length — presented continuously in an hourlong performance. Free and open to the public. Event details. Brown Hall, Room 100.
(314) 935-9300.
8:30 a.m. Friday, May 3
“Creating Aging-Friendly Communities.” Keynote speaker Andrew Scharlach, the Eugene and Rose Kleiner Professor of Aging and dir., Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services, U. of California, Berkeley. Co-sponsored by Inst. for Public Health. Free and open to the public. Event details. Eric P. Newman Education Center.
(314) 747-9212.
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The third annual Lavender Recognition Ceremony will take place May 15 in College Hall on the South 40. The ceremony honors the achievements and contributions of graduating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students and their allies. Advance registration appreciated.
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An amiable, unflappable leader in chronic disease prevention
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