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Oct. 25-31 Oct. 27 4:28 p.m. — An item was reported missing from artwork display in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum was described as a Tootsie Roll wrapper, and was possibly mistaken as trash. Oct. 30 1:48 p.m. — The reporting party stated that unknown person(s) stole computer equipment from the first floor conference room closet of Goldfarb Hall between noon Oct. 27 and 11:50 a.m. Oct. 30. Oct. 31 10:07 a.m. — Audio-video services reported unknown person(s) stole a Dell computer, keyboard, mouse and wireless hub from the electronics cabinet in Brown Hall, Room 205. The theft occurred between 1:30 p.m. Oct. 26 and 11:30 a.m. Oct. 30. Total loss is estimated at $1,500. Additionally, University Police responded to five larcenies and one auto acciden

A finding by School of Medicine researchers could allow them to seek new therapies and understand what goes wrong in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.

Kim Donica, research administrator of pediatrics infectious disease, has received a one-year, $11,000 grant from the Joseph H. and Florence A. Roblee Foundation for Project Ark. … Amy Davis McBee, M.D., neonatal fellow, has received a one-year, $10,000 grant from DiscoveryLabs for research titled “The Frequency of Variation in the Surfactant Protein-C Gene (SFTPC).” … Ramaswamy Govindan, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $5,250 grant from the American College of Radiology for research titled “Phase III Randomized Trial of Preoperative Chemotherapy VS Preoperative Concurrent Chemotherapy.” … Charles Canter, M.D., professor of pediatrics, has received a one-year, $3,000 grant from the University of Miami for the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry/PCMR.

Photo by Beth MillerTheodore Armstrong, a pre-doctoral fellow, and Jourdan Stuart, a first-year medical student, discuss a patient they examined with Will R. Ross, M.D., faculty supervisor, assistant professor of medicine and associate dean for diversity, at the Saturday Neighborhood Health Clinic in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood.School of Medicine students are learning about social medicine on Saturday mornings in Forest Park Southeast.

Daniel Kelly, M.D., has been named director of the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Department of Medicine.

Dean Shapiro plans to give updates on the School of Medicine’s key initiatives, including the tobacco-free initiative, addressing pandemic flu, and the New Interstate 64 project.

Architecture students’ works drive an initiative to improve street designs.

Journalist and author David Rieff will give a talk for the Holocaust Memorial Lecture as part of the Washington University Assembly Series at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, November 8, in Graham Chapel on the Danforth Campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Photo by David KilperA leading authority on prisons and inmate litigation, Margo Schlanger, J.D., (left), professor of law, teamed with colleagues and students to create an electronic library of documents related to civil rights injunctive cases.The School of Law’s new, free online Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse puts important documents a click away.

Award-winning School of Social Work professor and scholar will serve four-year term.