Newsroom Stories

Rock band? Musical theater? Indie-pop trio GrooveLily combines the best of both worlds with “Striking 12,” a refreshingly alternative holiday show based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale “The Little Match Girl.” The show will be performed at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 16 and 17 as part of Edison Theatre’s OVATIONS! Series.

The George Warren Brown School of Social Work’s desire to build community extends even into the virtual world. Using their new intranet, Inside Brown, Social Work’s students, faculty and staff can discuss research or current events, post general information or just get to know each other better.

School of Medicine scientists have found an approach to diabetes that has promise for curing the disease in humans.

Photo by Mary ButkusChancellor Mark S. Wrighton and Joe Daniels, a 1994 Arts & Sciences graduate and president and CEO of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center, look at signatures on a beam that will become part of the Memorial & Museum when it is completed around 2009. Visitors were able to sign the beam as part of the traveling National September 11 Memorial & Museum Tribute Exhibition, which stopped at the Danforth Campus Nov. 3-4. The exhibit featured photos, a film and artifacts from Sept. 11.

Samuel A. Canaan Jr., M.D., assistant professor emeritus of clinical ophthalmology and visual sciences, died Friday, Oct. 19 at age 85.

Photo by Robert BostonResearchers presented posters of their basic, clinical and translational research at the Research Training Symposium and Poster Session Oct. 25.

F. Sessions Cole, M.D., has been awarded a nearly $2 million, five-year grant to establish a career development program in the genetics and genomics of lung disease.

School of Medicine researchers have shown that a vaginal progesterone gel may improve infant outcomes in high-risk pregnancies.

Ellen Damschen, Ph.D., Todd Decker, Ph.D., Clarissa Rile Hayward, Ph.D., Simine Vazire, Ph.D.

Werner Ploberger, Ph.D., was installed as the first Thomas H. Eliot Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences on Oct. 30 in Holmes Lounge. Ploberger, who joined the Department of Economics last year, is internationally renowned for his contributions to the fields of econometrics and the theory of estimation.