Author: Ken Duenke

Photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield, a pre-eminent chronicler of American youth culture with a focus on eating disorders, will speak about her work at 11 a.m. March 7 in Graham Chapel as part of the Assembly Series. A viewing of her highly rated HBO documentary feature film “Thin” will be held at 6:30 p.m. March 6 in Simon Hall’s May Auditorium, followed by a panel discussion.

The survival rate for pancreatic cancer patients use to be less than a year, but advances in surgical techniques and follow-up treatment have improved the rate for many according to William Hawkins and Steven Stasberg. Both are doctors at the School of Medicine and Siteman Cancer Center.

Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, will deliver the School of Law’s 2007 Tyrrell Williams Lecture on “The New Supreme Court: Continuity and Change” at 4 p.m. March 7 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Photo by David KilperRichard L. Axelbaum, Ph.D., associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, demonstrates the combustion inside a jet engine using a hypodermic needle and propane fuel as part of the chemistry demonstrations Feb. 19 in The Gargoyle, part of the campus events celebrating National Engineers Week.

Margaret E. “Peggy” Kremmel, a tax accountant in the tax department, died Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007, at her home in Columbia, Ill., of heart failure. She was 49.

The men’s and women’s basketball teams each earned a bid to the 2007 NCAA Tournament with victories against the University of Chicago Feb. 24 at the Field House. The tournament begins March 2, when the men’s team hosts the NCAA Regionals.

Losing excess weight, getting more exercise, eating a healthy diet and quitting smoking are four steps to take to reduce the risk of cancer.

Photo by Kevin LowderDavid Filo, co-founder of Yahoo! Inc., talks to students in “Technology Entrepreneurship,” Computer Science and Engineering 507A, Feb. 18 in Cupples II, Room 217.

If you’re particularly good with puzzles or chess, the reason may be in your genes. A team of scientists, led by psychiatric geneticists at the School of Medicine, has gathered the most extensive evidence to date that a gene that activates signaling pathways in the brain influences one kind of intelligence. They have confirmed a link between the gene, CHRM2, and performance IQ, which involves a person’s ability to organize things logically.

HoltzmanDavid Holtzman, the Andrew B. and Gretchen P. Jones Professor and head of Neurology, is co-recipient of the MetLife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer’s Disease. Holtzman is also associate director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) and a member of the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders at the School of Medicine.