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Renee M. Williams, Ph.D., visiting associate professor in the George Warren Brown School of Social work, has been nominated for inclusion in Who’s Who in Black St. Louis. The unveiling of the publication will be in November at the Ritz-Carlton. … Jeffrey S. Crippin, M.D., professor of medicine and medical director of liver transplantation, was named the president of the American Society of Transplantation for 2006-07. … Hilary P. Glazer, first-year medical student, was recently named a scholar in the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Program. Glazer was one of 77 recipients of the scholarship, which covers tuition, room, board, fees and books up to $50,000 a year for up to six years. She earned an undergraduate degree from Tufts University in May.

University Police released information on thefts in three University residence halls.

School of Medicine researchers have found a method for reliably measuring the filling function of the heart.

School of Medicine researchers have obtained encouraging results in fighting cervical cancer by combining a traditional drug with one that inhibits blood-vessel growth.

A trial at the School of Medicine focuses on a procedure called bronchial thermoplasty, which may hold promise for moderate and severe asthmatic patients.

A drug used to treat epilepsy has had positive effects on some adult patients with spinal muscular atrophy, School of Medicine researchers discovered.

Photo by Tim ParkerSeqwinya Stevens from Beaumont High School in St. Louis presents her research on the Jun B gene from hair cells in the chicken ear as part of the Young Scientist Program at the School of Medicine.

As the Danforth Campus dedication ceremony nears, longtime friends and colleagues share personal anecdotes about Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth and his late wife, Elizabeth (Ibby).

Renowned saxophonist Willie Akins will launch the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences’ fall Jazz at Holmes series with a special outdoor performance in Brookings Quadrangle. The event, titled “Jazz in the Quad,” is free and open to the public and begins at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14.