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Photo by David KilperBob Chekoudjian has transitioned from punk rocker to computer expert

Track and field standout Delaina Martin has been selected as one of the Top 30 contenders for the 2007 NCAA Woman of the Year award.

Victoria L. May, Science Outreach director since 1998, has been appointed assistant dean of Arts & Sciences.

David K. Levine, Ph.D., has been named the inaugural holder of the John H. Biggs Distinguished Professorship in Economics in Arts & Sciences.

A molecular factor involved in maintaining the heart’s energy supply could become a key to new approaches to prevent or treat heart failure, School of Medicine researchers have found.

Anita L. Minor tells of her gift of a child with Down Syndrome in a recently released book.

Courtesy PhotoJeffrey Lowell, M.D., (left) and Eric Shirley, lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, perform clubfoot repair surgery on a child while on board the USNS Comfort.Jeffrey Lowell, M.D., was deployed on the military hospital ship USNS Comfort this month to serve as a general surgeon while the ship was in Central America.

A $5.7 million grant will establish a center at the School of Medicine that will investigate the underlying causes of kidney disease to speed the development of new treatments.

Photo by Robert BostonAyodele Adesanya, a University of Chicago undergraduate who took part in the summer Biomedical Research Apprenticeship Program (BioMed RAP), talks about his research poster, “Gene expression and polymorphism in the GAL1 promoter of Saccharomyces” with Yue Yun, a doctoral student in the Computational Biology Program.

Patricia Gregory has been named assistant vice chancellor of medical corporate and foundation relations, and David Shearrer has been named executive director of development for clinical programs.