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“Challenges to Public Education Financing Facing Missouri and the Nation” is the topic of a one-day public forum to be held Nov. 4. Co-sponsored by the Weidenbaum Center and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the event features discussions by nationally recognized academic experts, state legislators and school superintendents. Free and open to the public; reservations required.

Soon it will be possible for twice as many underserved women to be screened for breast cancer because of a grant to Dione Farria, M.D., and Katherine Jahnige Mathews, M.D., of the Siteman Cancer Center at the School of Medicine.

Historian Christopher Browning will touch on his experience as an expert witness in recent famous court cases involving Holocaust deniers in his Holocaust Memorial Lecture for the Assembly Series at 11 a.m. on November 9. How ordinary Germans came to accept the wholesale massacre of Jews is a central theme in Browning’s pioneering scholarship of the Holocaust.

An international team of scientists this week published the first complete draft of a map of human genetic variability, known to scientists as the human haplotype map or HapMap. The HapMap pushes biomedical science a large step closer to the era when analysis of patient DNA will provide important guidance to diagnosis and treatment.

In the screenplay “Calling Dr. Meadows,” a cardiac surgeon — killed in a carjacking — spends time in purgatory attempting to fix the moral dilemmas he created while alive. The screenplay made it to the finals in the Cinema St. Louis/St. Louis International Film Festival screenwriting contest. Apt to pique the interest of doctors anywhere, […]

The event will be moderated by Leah Merrifield and will open with a welcome from Neighbors Council member Patricia Barrett.

It’s part of a yearlong national effort to explore the most serious problems behind bars in America today and how to solve them.

The event will feature Dixieland music by St. Louis’ Bourbon Street Band and a talk by Gerald Early on “The Death of Jazz and the Birth of New Orleans.”

“Teach for America and the School of Social Work share a common passion for pioneering social change,” Dean Edward F. Lawlor says.

The researchers discovered a rare change in the DNA of two eastern Missouri families with a history of a condition known as XLHPT.