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Joseph Jez, PhD, co-director of WUSTL plant and microbial biosciences graduate program, is one of 15 professors nationwide to receive a $1 million HHMI grant to bring the creativity he has shown in the lab to the undergraduate classroom. He plans to use the grant to establish a two-year program called the Biotech Explorers Pathway, which will introduce students to the science and business of biotechnology.
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Jeffrey A. Lowell, MD, of the School of Medicine, is also a commander in the U.S. Navy. He currently is deployed to Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, Africa. He checked in to tell us about his experience there — and about the gratitude of service members who recently received care packages from some generous Washington University employees.
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The inaugural class of WUSTL’s innovative College Prep Program recently wrapped up its first two-week residential experience. The students will return during the summers of their junior and senior years to take college-credit classes. The new program prepares students for college and its challenges.
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Studying mouth cancer in mice, researchers led by Ravindra Uppaluri, MD, PhD, have found a way to predict the aggressiveness of similar tumors in people, an early step toward a diagnostic test that could guide treatment.
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Vision researchers from 38 clinical sites, including the School of Medicine, have found that the eyesight of patients with an unusual vision disorder linked to obesity improves twice as much if they take a glaucoma drug and lose a modest amount of weight than if they only lose weight. Neuro-ophthalmologist Gregory Van Stavern, MD, led the study in St. Louis.
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