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Heart patients who smoke and have implanted defibrillators are much more likely to have the devices jolt their hearts back into normal rhythm than nonsmokers with the devices.

Growing up in 10 states across India, Richa Dhanju saw “immense disparity amongst people and between men and women.” But it wasn’t until she was pursuing an undergraduate degree in philosophy at Lady Sri Ram College for Women in New Delhi that she started examining these differences. “Women’s secondary status and role in the patriarchal […]

The School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital researchers will receive $300,000 annually for five years to study how infections are acquired in health-care settings.

There is no Campus Watch for this issue of the Record.

He recently entered “Light of Tomorrow,” a conceptual design competition sponsored by VELUX, the European skylight manufacturer.

His undergraduate years are characterized by service, commitment and intellectual curiosity; among other projects, he tutored inner-city children for two years.

Photo by David KilperThe University’s 145th Commencement ceremony will begin at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle.Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will confer degrees during today’s 145th Commencement ceremony, which will start at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle.

The two-term Student Union President also was on the University’s club gymnastics team and later became a coach at a local gymnastics center.

“At this university, we don’t just learn about the world on a purely academic or individual basis; we learn more on a collective level,” the senior class president says.

“I’m not under any illusions that it will be simple, but I’ve had so many great examples in my life that have done what others have felt to be impossible,” she says.