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An extra degree of precision will be added to radiation treatments for prostate cancer at the School of Medicine following the installation of two new technologies.

Parents Weekend 2007 will be held Oct. 12-14. Activities include parents joining their sons and daughters for classes, art exhibits, open houses, tours, musical productions and a tailgate party before the football game.

Thomas Ferkol, M.D., director of the Division of Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonary Medicine, is one of a handful of pediatric pulmonologists in the country who study primary ciliary dyskinesia.

Although the causes of Alzheimer’s disease are not completely understood, amyloid-beta (A-beta) is widely considered a likely culprit. But now School of Medicine researchers have uncovered evidence strengthening the case for another potential cause of Alzheimer’s. The finding also represents the first time scientists have found a connection between early- and late-onset Alzheimer’s.

To explore the state of spiritual life at Washington University, two campus ministers, Rabbi Avi Orlow of Hillel and the Rev. Gary Braun of the Catholic Student Center, will share their beliefs and guide an open discussion for the Assembly Series. The event, free and open to the public, will be held at 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 15, in Graham Chapel. Amy Heath-Carpentier, a career development specialist in the Career Center, will moderate.

Is that clover necklace you make for your child poison? It could be. Kenneth Olsen, Ph.D., Washington University assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, is looking at the genetics of a wide variety of white clover plants to determine why some plants do and some plants don’t make cyanide. Ecology and geography play important roles.

The School of Medicine is collaborating with other area institutions in what will be the largest study of child and human health ever conducted in the United States.

The Class of 2011 traveled across town and across oceans to attend Washington University. Approximately 1,340 first-year students from all over the world — 20 countries, 49 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico — joined the campus community in August.

Stephen H. Legomsky, J.D., D.Phil., the John. S. Lehmann University Professor, is serving a six-month appointment as a visiting senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore.

Photo by Robert BostonThe grand opening of the Washington University Orthopedics and Barnes-Jewish Hospital Outpatient Orthopedic Center was held Oct. 3.