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Frank K. FlinnIn November, California citizens passed Proposition 8 upholding the idea that marriage is defined as and limited to the union of one man with one woman. The vote has given encouragement to many in other states who want to pass similar legislation. The United States is about to enter a period of legal upheaval on the question of marriage in the civil law, suggests Frank K. Flinn, Ph.D., adjunct professor of religious studies in Arts & Sciences. His proposal? Give marriage to the churches and let the state define civil unions.

Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Faculty achievement award winners Henry L. “Roddy” Roediger III, Ph.D. (left), and Robert D. Schreiber, Ph.D., await the awards ceremony Dec. 5 at the Moore Auditorium of the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center on the Medical Campus.

The Longer Life Foundation (LLF), a cooperative effort between the School of Medicine and the Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), recently celebrated 10 years of independent research into improving methods for predicting long-term mortality from various diseases and promoting quality and quantity of life. So far, LLF has funded more than 48 research grants, awarding […]

TrinkausNew research published by Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, establishes a late persistence of Neadertals in southwestern Europe some 40,000 years ago. The research sheds light on what were probably the last Neandertals on earth.

Snow Way Drive on the Danforth Campus will become one way heading west from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Dec. 11. Drivers will not be able to enter Snow Way Drive from Big Bend Boulevard.

Alison M. Lang, a master’s candidate in architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, was part of a team that recently took two prizes in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Second Annual Green Building Design Competition. Open to architects, reuse experts, engineers, designers, planners, contractors, builders, educators, environmental advocates and students […]

Younan Xia, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering, was installed as the inaugural James M. McKelvey Professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science in a Sept. 2 ceremony in Uncas A. Whitaker Hall. The McKelvey professorship is named in honor of the school’s dean from 1964-1991 and is one of three professorships established in […]

The top-ranked men’s basketball team won the 25th Annual Lopata Classic with two victories last weekend at home. The Bears have now won 20 straight Lopata Classic games and 10 overall tournament titles. Five Bears scored in double figures to lead the team to an 85-57 victory over Hamilton College in the first game Dec. […]