Heavy Metal Project aims to prevent lead poisoning in kids
A new program in the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Obstetrics Clinic is helping to prevent lead poisoning among children in the city of St. Louis.
Numbers talk
Photo by Whitney CurtsRichard Rochberg, Ph.D. (right), professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences, speaks with Nets Katz, Ph.D., professor of mathematics at Indiana University, during “Function Spaces and Their Operators: A Conference in Honor of Richard Rochberg on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday,” May 30 in Cupples I.
“Seven Veils for St. Louis”
Courtesy ImageThe Sheldon Art Galleries at 3648 Washington Blvd. currently is hosting an exhibition of recent projects by Jen Maigret and Don Koster, both Cynthia Weese Teaching Fellows in the Sam Fox School’s Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design.
Search committee expanded for Arts & Sciences’ dean
In the University’s ongoing effort to strengthen inclusiveness, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton has expanded the Advisory Committee on the Appointment of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences.
Engineering undergraduates study in China this summer
Ruth Chen, Ph.D., research associate in the Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, and Jay R. Turner, Ph.D., associate professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, are leading an international exchange program for the department this summer to Beijing.
Elsie Parker and The Poor People of Paris launches Jazz at Holmes series
Elsie Parker and The Poor People of Paris will launch the summer Jazz at Holmes series with a free performance at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 12. The series features relaxed, coffeehouse-style concerts with professional jazz musicians from around St. Louis and abroad most Thursday evenings throughout the summer.
Excellence in engineering
Photo by Joe AngelesYoung-Shin Jun, Ph.D., assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, is presented the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) 2008 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Achievement Award in Engineering or Applied Science by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.
Architecture students win JP Morgan Chase Community Development Competition
A design proposal by 10 architecture students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts has won the 2008 JP Morgan Chase Community Development Competition.
Of note
Melvin S. Blanchard, M.D.,
R. Gilbert Jost, M.D.
F. Scott Kieff, J.D.,
Tim Lempfert and more…
Personalized therapy for asthma, lung disease could soon be here
School of Medicine researchers have defined a new type of immune response that is activated in patients with severe asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Their discovery could dramatically improve diagnosis and treatment of patients with chronic inflammatory lung disease.
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