A breast cancer vaccine developed at the School of Medicine is safe in patients with metastatic breast cancer, results of an early clinical trial indicate. Preliminary evidence from the small clinical trial, led by William Gillanders, MD, also suggests that the vaccine primed the patients’ immune systems to attack tumor cells and helped slow the cancer’s progression.

Rare objects from University Libraries’ Department of Special Collections are featured in “Into the Vault.” The new video series is produced by Arts & Sciences in collaboration with University Libraries. Among the treasures featured are Galileo’s “Dialogue” and writings by Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton.

Sally Schwarz is a designer at heart. She designs clothes, she designed the extensive garden in her backyard. And she assisted in designing the state-of-the-art cyclotron facility at the university’s Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology.

The Board of Trustees meeting on Dec. 5 focused on the university’s role in addressing current challenges, both local and global, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton said. The board also elected a new trustee, alumnus Steven Cash Nickerson, JD.