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A combination of brain scanning with a new imaging agent and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis has left neuroscientists encouraged that they may finally be moving toward techniques for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease before its clinical symptoms become apparent.

Listed below are this month’s featured news stories. • Pitchers’ elbow (week of Nov. 2) • Mouse love songs (week of Nov. 9) • Early removal of thyroid cancer (week of Nov. 16) • Diabetic epidemic worsens (week of Nov. 23)

John R. Bowen, Ph.D., the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named a 2005 Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corp. of New York. Bowen, who also is chair and professor of Social Thought and Analysis in Arts & Sciences, is one of 16 scholars nationwide selected in this highly competitive fellowship program.

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra will be joined by Marissa Shields, winner of the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences’ annual Young Artist Piano Concerto Competition, for a performance at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20, in the University’s Graham Chapel.

The Women’s Society of Washington University received a major boost for its scholarship fund with a $100,000 gift from the Danforth Foundation, in honor of Elizabeth (Ibby) Danforth. The scholarship provides full tuition for transfer students from the St. Louis community college system.

He apparently suffering a heart attack while walking his dogs near his home in Ladue, Mo.; he was 67.

The receiver leaps for the ball just as a defensive player leaps toward the receiver. As both players crumple to the turf, Matthew J. Matava, M.D., leaps into action. Matava, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and co-chief of the Sports Medicine Service at the School of Medicine, is the head team physician for the St. […]

He died of complications from leukemia Oct. 27 at his home in Clayton; he was 76.

He is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998, a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

Photo by Mary ButkusNobel Prize-winning economists Kenneth Arrow and Douglass North chat on the occasion of Arrow’s presentation at the University Oct. 21.