Health benefits open enrollment starts; coverage time frame shifts
The cycle for health benefits enrollment will now run on the calendar year instead of the University’s fiscal year.
Social work presents alumni, faculty awards
Alumni awards were presented to Cynthia Bumb, Ruth Greene Richardson & Frank Seever; the Outstanding Faculty Award went to Mark Rank.
U. College student helps with tsunami relief effort
“You try to prep yourself before you go (there), but you really can’t,” says Keren Kinglow, a pre-med student and intensive-care unit nurse.
The dog days of finals
Photo by Mary ButkusThe Stress Free Zone, providing a way for students to relax during their preparations for final exams, included pet therapy.
A day in the life
Photo by Joe Angeles”Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day” gave children several options for spending their day in various discussions or programs.
Software conference May 15-21 to draw world’s experts & elite
The School of Engineering & Applied Science is a sponsor of the world’s premier software engineering annual forum May 15-21.
Autism’s genetic structure offers insights
A diagnostic interview tool and with DNA samples from family members help researchers hunt for genes that can contribute to autism.
More medical news
A jack-of-all-trades
In its Clinical and Translational Research Program, the Siteman Cancer Center runs about 350 clinical trials simultaneously, gathering health information from hundreds of patients. To set up each study and analyze the resulting data requires expertise in biostatistics. This keeps J. Philip Miller, the biostatistics core director at Siteman, very busy. He and his staff […]
Sports
Softball team heads to NCAAs again The top-ranked softball team (45-1) will make its fourth straight at-large appearance in the NCAA Division III Tournament, as announced May 9 by the NCAA Softball Committee. The Bears will play in a six-team Midwest Regional today through May 16 at Coe College. Other teams are St. Mary’s University […]
Profile of tumor genes shows need for individualized chemotherapy
Genes respond to chemo drugOncologists aren’t sure exactly why patients with the same cancer often respond very differently to the same treatment, but a growing body of evidence suggests the answer lies somewhere in the genes. Now researchers at the School of Medicine have become the first to profile the activity of whole sets of genes involved in processing chemotherapeutic drugs.
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