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The opening is part of a long-term plan to make Euclid Avenue a more pedestrian-friendly zone.

Honored were: Marshall E. Bloom, Willard B. Walker, Clay F. Semenkovich, Gregory A. Storch, William H. McAlister, Alan L. Schwartz, and Samuel L. Stanley.

With all of the construction happening on the Hilltop Campus, pedestrians are urged to take alternate, safer routes.

Fumihiko MakiPress biography of Fumihiko Maki, architect of two new buildings for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

David W. Kemper James M. Kemper Jr. Mildred Lane Kemper William T. Kemper Foundation David W. Kemper is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Commerce Bancshares, Inc., a $14 billion regional bank holding company based in Missouri. Kemper graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1972. He received a Master of Arts degree in […]

Pamella A. Henson has been promoted to associate vice chancellor for alumni & development programs, it was announced by David T. Blasingame, executive vice chancellor for alumni & development programs.

Histamine in the small intestine responds to bacteria.Mice infected with a bacterium related to the plague sharply increase production of an enzyme that makes the inflammatory hormone histamine, researchers at the School of Medicine have found. The increased production, which occurs in the intestine, appears to be an important part of the mouse’s successful efforts to control the infection.

Charles Huddleston performs a pediatric lung transplant.A team of researchers at the School of Medicine has found that using lobes of lungs from living donors improves the chances of short-term survival for children who require a second lung transplant. Living-donor lung retransplantation involves removing a lower lobe, or about one-third of a lung, from each of two healthy adult donors and then transplanting the lobes as replacement lungs into a child.

Photo by Joe AngelesNobel Prize-winner Barry Marshall speaks at the “21st Century Science” symposium.

He’s among 187 U.S. and Canadian Guggenheim Fellows selected this year from nearly 3,000 applicants for awards totaling $7.5 million.