Do you Yahoo?

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.

Northwest Tower creates nearly 200,000 square feet of new office space

The new Northwest Tower on Children’s Place adds eight floors and 195,000 square feet of office space to bring together faculty in the departments of Pediatrics, Surgery, Anesthesiology and Internal Medicine. Bridges connect the tower to St. Louis Children’s Hospital and the Clinical Sciences Research Building, and also link the medical school’s north campus with its south campus.

Of note

John Morris, M.D., the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Professor of Neurology, has received a three-year, $8,250 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for Patient Care Support in the Memory Diagnostic Center. … Lawrence Lewis, M.D., associate professor of emergency medicine, has received a one-year, $5,500 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for the Allen P. Klippel Lecture Fund. … Lourdes R. Ylagan, M.D., assistant professor of pathology and immunology, has received a one-year, $5,000 grant from the American Society of Cytopathology for research titled “Microarray Gene Expression Profiles of Breast Adenocarcinoma Before and After Treatment with Chemotherapy.” … Mark Manary, M.D., professor of pediatrics, has received a five-year, $1,055 grant from the Ohio State University Research Foundation for research titled “Improving Cassava for Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Development.”

Hear Ye!

Sandra Day O’Connor, former U.S. Supreme Court justice, speaks to about 180 first-year School of Law students Feb. 13 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. Kent D. Syverud, J.D., dean of the law school and the Ethan A.H. Shepley University Professor, moderated a question-and-answer period. Syverud was a law clerk for O’Connor, who served on the Supreme Court from 1981-2006. The event was simulcast in the law school Student Commons, which was filled to capacity.

Genetically modified crops add new layer to Indian farming

Farmers buying cotton seed at a shop in the Warangal District, India.In a study published in the February issue of Current Anthropology, Glenn D. Stone, Ph.D., professor of anthropology and of environmental studies, both in Arts & Sciences, explores how the arrival of genetically modified crops in India has added a new layer of complexity to farming in a key area of the developing world.
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