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Photo by Mary ButkusDan Kaplan gets nearly a foot of his hair cut off by Josh Nidrols during the recent Locks of Love charity event.

Areas activated by tasks designed to stimulate voluntary attentionThe first direct analysis of the interactions between two brain networks that govern visual attention may help researchers at the School of Medicine develop treatments for stroke patients with a condition known as spatial neglect. These patients have difficulty focusing on or paying attention to stimuli in the left half of their visual field.

Lung tumors from mutant mice show an abundance of abnormal, undifferentiated cells.Often mice are used to investigate cancer because their accelerated life spans allow discoveries to be made in a few months. But most strains of mice stay relatively free of lung tumors, even when exposed to heavy tobacco smoke, so there has been a shortage of models suitable for studying tobacco smoke-induced lung cancer. Now, cancer researchers at the School of Medicine have developed a strain of mice that readily develops lung tumors that have the same genetic mutations found in human lung tumors.

In these brain sections of neonatal mice exposed to ethanol, mice deficient in certain enzymes (right) exhibit much more neurodegeneration as indicated by the black material in the dying neurons.Can you blame your genes if you can’t handle your liquor? A new study conducted at the School of Medicine may pave the way to finding out. Researchers found that the brain’s response to alcohol is partially under the influence of two genes. The genes, studied in both adult and newborn mice, were found to affect sensitivity to alcohol intoxication, interest in alcohol consumption and risk of developmental brain damage from alcohol.

FriedmanStudent Commencement speaker Jordan Friedman, president of the senior class, addressed his his fellow students during Commencment and spoke about how far they have come in the last four years and how much more they have to accomplish. Following are Friedman’s prepared remarks.

The following is a transcript of Richard A. Gephardt’s Commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis on May 20, 2005. He delivered the address to an audience of more than 12,000, including some 2,500 graduates, in Brookings Quadrangle.

A collection of images from Commencement 2005

During the University’s 144th Commencement, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton delivered his message to the Class of 2005. He stated that although this year’s graduates will face many hardships, they also have an exciting and bright future ahead and their potential to make a significant impact after graduation has been enhanced by their Washington University education.. “Your individual contributions may have Einstein-like enduring impact through your creative work in art, music, writing, science or some other area,” Wrighton said.

Joe Angeles / WUSTL PhotoGraduating students stand during the singing of “America the Beautiful” at the start of the Commencement ceremony.Much has changed in the world since he sat through his own college graduation more than 40 years ago, said Richard A. Gephardt, former U.S. house minority leader, in his May 20 Commencement address to some 2,500 graduating students at Washington University in St. Louis. But what hasn’t changed is the uncertainty that faces recent college graduates. “We had no idea what we were heading into as we left on our graduation day,” Gephardt told the audience of more than 12,000 in Brookings Quadrangle. “Neither, I suspect do you. And it would be a reckless commencement speaker who ventured too many predictions about a world that in his own lifetime has confounded so many expectations.” Related article: 2005 Commencement photo gallery Related media: View 2005 Commencement ceremony Related article: View the Record‘s “Gallery of Graduates”

Photo by Joe AngelesJohn Woock was named both an NCAA College Football National Scholar-Athlete and an ESPN The Magazine First-Team Academic All-American.