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“We’re analyzing the genes active in breast tumors to characterize the biological behaviors of each breast-cancer subtype,” says lead investigator Matthew Ellis.

Photo by Tim ParkerMedical students in the Ballroom Dance Club learn dances for the School of Medicine’s 10th annual Faculty/Student Med Ball, to be held March 11.

In November 2003, the group shared the stage with Bono, Peter Gabriel, the Eurythmics and others at Nelson Mandela’s 46664 Concert in Cape Town.

The reading, sponsored by The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, is free and open to the public and will take place in Duncker Hall’s Hurst Lounge.

The program will feature several virtuosic works by late 19th-century Russian composers, most notably Mili Balakirev’s colorful Islamey, Oriental Fantasy.

The new ages are set between 32,000-33,000 years old, and perhaps slightly older; in 1998, the fossils had been radiocarbon dated to 28,000-29,000 years.

Photo by Mary ButkusJohn Baugh, director of African and African American Studies, was recently installed as the first Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts & Sciences.

Investors are reluctant to devote resources to female-run companies, according to research from two professors at the Olin School of Business. They found that potential backers are likely to invest 300 percent more in male-run firms than in firms run by a woman; and they would pay a female CEO 86 percent of the salary they’d pay a male CEO.

Listed below are this month’s featured news stories. • Warfarin increases risk of fractures (week of Feb. 1) • Older adults can control health (week of Feb. 8) • New cancer strategy (week of Feb. 15) • Enzyme affects aging process (week of Feb. 22)

Courtesy photoWilliam CrononEnvironmental historian William Cronon will speak on “Telling Tales on Canvas: Landscapes of Environmental Change” at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Cronon, the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, studies the history of human interaction with the natural world.