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Courtesy PhotoConstruction will be complete in December on the BJC Institute of Health at Washington University.

A multicenter study has found two new genetic variants associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. The study was conducted by the Cancer Genetic Markers of Susceptibility (CGEMS) initiative and reported through advance online publication this week in Nature Genetics.

Eric Galburt, Ph.D., James Janetka, Ph.D., and Ana Ruiz Manzano, Ph.D.

Photo by Mary ButkusSimona Mirela Miculescu (left), United Nations ambassador from Romania, addresses a town hall meeting March 24 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall as Thomas Schweich, J.D., visiting professor and ambassador-in-residence at the School of Law, looks on.

Photo by Mary ButkusMarion G. Crain, J.D., was installed as the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law March 30 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Robert Sparks, Ph.D., professor, biomedical researcher and international consultant, died March 21, 2009, of acute leukemia. He was 78.

Ronald E. Schuchardt, retired captain and member of University Police from 1970-1996, died March 17, 2009. He was 73.

The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, popularly known as the Duomo, is an icon of Florence and one of Europe’s largest churches, famous for the massive domed roof designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. Yet, perhaps surprisingly, the structure — built between 1296 and 1436 — also boasts several attributes that today are associated with sustainable […]

Photo by Robert BostonJennifer S. Lawton, M.D., associate professor of surgery, is committed to lessening the impact of heart disease on both women and men and is especially concerned by differences in heart care between women and men.