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The members-only resources of the Web site for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education now is available to everyone on the Danforth and School of Medicine campuses.

This PET scan shows high levels of an anticancer agent in the tumor.Cancer cells keep growing because they don’t react to internal signals urging them to die. Now researchers at the School of Medicine have found an efficient way to get a messenger into cancer cells that forces them to respond to death signals. And they did it using one of the most sinister pathogens around — HIV.

Ida H. Early has been named secretary to the Board of Trustees, announced Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.The appointment is effective July 1, when Harriet K. Switzer, Ph.D., steps down from that post. “Ida Early brings many years of University experience to her new role, and I welcome the opportunity to work with her,” said Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. “Ida is very familiar with the St. Louis community and our University, and is a person of enormous ability, sensitivity and integrity who, I am confident, will be successful as the next Secretary to the Board of Trustees.”

All undergraduate students recently received an e-mail from James E. McLeod, vice chancellor for students and dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, with a personlized link to the survey. The survey must be completed online by Feb. 26.

Human memory, the ability to recall vivid mental images of past experiences, has been studied extensively for more than 100 years. But until recently, there’s been surprisingly little research into cognitive processes underlying another form of mental time travel — the ability to clearly imagine oneself participating in a future event. Now, University researchers have used advanced brain imaging techniques to show that remembering the past and envisioning the future may go hand in hand, with each process sparking strikingly similar patterns of activity within precisely the same broad network of brain regions.

Photo by Kevin LowderRichard Ayres, a dancer and choreographer with Paul D. Mosley Dance Inc. in New York, works with fellow company member Lanileigh Ting during a recent master class with the dance program in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences.

Alcoholism experts from around the United States will present their research at the 7th Annual Samuel B. Guze Symposium on Alcoholism at the Eric P. Newman Education Center from 8 a.m-5:30 p.m. Feb. 15. This year’s event at the School of Medicine focuses on “Alcohol Use Across the Lifespan.”

Photo by Robert BostonKathryn M. Diemer helps prevent musculo-skeletal injuries, osteoporosis

Nuruddin Farah will be on campus Feb. 13 and 14 to speak on “Political Islam and Clan in Present-day Somalia” for the Assembly Series, and to present a reading/discussion of his works for the Department of English in Arts & Sciences.

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