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The University has been selected as one of 19 colleges and universities nationwide that will host the 2007 ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp, sponsored by ExxonMobil Corp. and led by Bernard Harris, M.D., a former NASA astronaut and the first African-American to conduct a spacewalk.

Photo by David KilperJulie Shimabukuro passes along her enthusiasm for WUSTL when recruiting international students

Colin G. Nichols, Ph.D., has become the first Carl F. Cori Professor at the School of Medicine.

Robert L.E. Egger, founder and president of the non-profit culinary arts job-training program D.C. Central Kitchen, will speak on “Using Punk Rock and Leftover Food to Change the World” at 4:30 p.m. March 27 in Room 132 of Goldfarb Hall.

Kathleen Clark, J.D., professor of law, has been elected to the American Law Institute.

School of Medicine researchers hope to one day combine a new drug with a small implanted light to stop seizures in patients with epilepsy.

Leonard Berg, M.D., will be remembered at a memorial service at 2 p.m. March 31 in the Connor Auditorium at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center.

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Courtesy PhotoA scholarly paper on the status of the 127 known caves in the 508-square-mile county shows developers are discarding the formations with impunity, says co-author Robert E. Criss, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences.

Diabetes is hard on the heart — adults with diabetes die from heart disease about two to four times more often than those without diabetes. And scientific evidence has suggested that blood fat levels are a source of this problem. Now a clinical study at the School of Medicine is investigating the link between blood fat and heart health.