Children’s Discovery Institute funds new research initiatives, scholars
The Children’s Discovery Institute has approved $2.2 million for new research and to appoint two full-time scholars and one academic fellow.
Bauer, leader in baby-tooth study, 82
Walter C. Bauer, M.D., a retired professor of pathology at the School of Medicine, died Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008. He was 82.
Breakdown of kidney’s ability to clean itself may cause disease
The kidney actively cleans its most selective filter to keep it from clogging with blood proteins, School of Medicine scientists reveal in a new study. Researchers showed that breakdown of a self-cleaning feature can make kidneys more vulnerable to dysfunction and disease.
Howard named chief counsel to School of Medicine
William F. Howard, a long-time higher education attorney, has been appointed associate vice chancellor and chief counsel to the School of Medicine.
Cancer gene drives pivotal decision in early brain development
A gene linked to pediatric brain tumors is an essential driver of early brain development, School of Medicine researchers have found.
Something in the way she moves
Photo by Robert BostonSusie Strecker (left), instructor in physical therapy, reaches out to Madelyn Latacha, daughter of Kim Latacha, in the Kinesiology II course in the Program in Physical Therapy. Students observe and try to guess Madelyn’s age by her movements.
Helium supplies endangered, threatening science and technology
In America, helium is running out of gas. The element that lifts things like balloons, spirits and voice ranges is being depleted so rapidly in the world’s largest reserve, outside of Amarillo, Texas, that supplies are expected to be depleted there within the next eight years.
Earthquake seminar addresses ways to lessen damage
The Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Structural Engineering has begun a series of seminars and workshops on the topic of reducing the damage that would occur if a strong earthquake strikes the New Madrid fault area again.
Genome of bacterium that makes rare form of chlorophyll sequenced
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Arizona State University have sequenced the genome of a rare bacterium that harvests light energy by making an even rarer form of chlorophyll, chlorophyll d. Chlorophyll d absorbs “red edge,” near infrared, long wave length light that is invisible to the naked eye. In so doing, the cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina, competes with virtually no other plant or bacterium in the world for sunlight.
Actualizing MLK’s vision
Photo by Jerry Naunheim, Jr.Sheba Wadley (left), a student at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work and co-chair of the Society of Black Student Social Workers, greets Bessie House-Soremekun, Ph.D., founder and CEO of the National Center for Entrepreneurship Inc., in Goldfarb Hall Commons Feb. 2.
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