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TrinkausNew research published by Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, establishes a late persistence of Neadertals in southwestern Europe some 40,000 years ago. The research sheds light on what were probably the last Neandertals on earth.

Researchers may have identified one of the body’s earliest responses to a group of parasites that causes illness in developing nations. In a paper published online in Public Library of Science Pathogens, scientists report that they tracked immune cells as they patrolled the second-shallowest layer of the skin in an animal model. Injections of a genetically modified form of the parasite Leishmania major caused the immune cells to turn from their patrols and move to intercept the parasites.

ManaryMark Manary has been named the Helene B. Roberson Professor of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine. “Mark Manary is an outstanding choice for the Helene B. Roberson Professor of Pediatrics,” said Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. “Dr. Manary has developed innovative approaches to improving the lives of children in Africa. He is a credit to his field and most deserving of this generous honor supported by an endowment gift from Helene B. Roberson.”

Snow Way Drive on the Danforth Campus will become one way heading west from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Dec. 11. Drivers will not be able to enter Snow Way Drive from Big Bend Boulevard.

Alison M. Lang, a master’s candidate in architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, was part of a team that recently took two prizes in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Second Annual Green Building Design Competition. Open to architects, reuse experts, engineers, designers, planners, contractors, builders, educators, environmental advocates and students […]

Younan Xia, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering, was installed as the inaugural James M. McKelvey Professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science in a Sept. 2 ceremony in Uncas A. Whitaker Hall. The McKelvey professorship is named in honor of the school’s dean from 1964-1991 and is one of three professorships established in […]

The top-ranked men’s basketball team won the 25th Annual Lopata Classic with two victories last weekend at home. The Bears have now won 20 straight Lopata Classic games and 10 overall tournament titles. Five Bears scored in double figures to lead the team to an 85-57 victory over Hamilton College in the first game Dec. […]

Kelly Bishop, Ph.D., and Chad Larson, Ph.D.

Photo by Robert BostonSome families in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood will have a brighter holiday thanks to the generosity of School of Medicine employees.

As President-elect Barack Obama continues to fill key cabinet positions from the ranks of D.C.-based public policy think tanks, a new book by longtime policy adviser Murray Weidenbaum examines how the nation’s top think tanks came to play such critical roles in U.S. politics.