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Peter A. F. Morrin, M.D., who conducted some of the first successful dialysis treatments at the School of Medicine while a postdoctoral fellow, died Wednesday, Oct. 3. He was 75.

• Various lane closures are scheduled through Nov. 16.

Subtle markers in obese children’s hearts can help physicians predict who could be at risk for heart disease and heart attacks.

Photo by Maury PepperThis team of researchers restored the Laboratory Instrument Computer (LINC) — recognized by the Institute of Electical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society as the world’s first interactive personal computer — for display at the 10th Vintage Computer Festival Nov. 3-4 in Mountain View, Calif.

Ian G. Dobbins, Ph.D., Elizabeth Haswell, Ph.D., Cynthia Lo, Ph.D., Adam Rosenzweig, J.D., Fuqiang Zhang, Ph.D.,

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the University Libraries’ Department of Special Collections will launch the new Modern Graphic History Library with a pair of exhibitions that open Friday, Nov. 16. “Highlights from the Modern Graphic History Library” will open with a reception at 5:30 p.m. in Olin Library’s Ginkgo Reading Room & Grand Staircase Lobby. A reception for “Ephemeral Beauty: Al Parker and the American Women’s Magazine, 1940-1960” will immediately follow at 7 p.m. in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

New School of Medicine research provides an unprecedented view of the abnormal genetic landscape in lung cancer cells from patients with lung cancer.

Medications designed to interfere with this mechanism could prevent many cases of childhood asthma, School of Medicine researchers have found.

Go to BearSports The No. 7 volleyball team won the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional Championship with a 3-1 victory against No. 6 Carthage College Nov. 10, in Kenosha, Wis. The win means the Bears will make their eighth-consecutive appearance in the NCAA quarterfinals, which begin Thursday, Nov. 15, against Emory University in Bloomington, Ill. […]

Photo by Whitney CurtisCedza Dlamini, (right) Prince of Swaziland and grandson of Nelson Mandela, speaks during a lunch on campus Nov. 5. Dlamini’s visit to the University included a lecture on “Ubuntu: Development, Social Entrepreneurship, and Service” in Graham Chapel.