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An international team of researchers has partially untangled the genetic details of a mysterious disorder that formerly caused seizures and death in infant boys within a month of birth.

Richard Burkhardt will examine the scientific, social and political aspects in the development of ethology as a modern science in his Thomas Hall Lecture at 4 p.m. on October 25. He teaches history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and specializes in the history of evolutionary theory and ethology, which is the study of animal behavior by means of comparative zoological methods.

A study of patients who have difficulty paying attention to the left side of their environment has provided some of the first direct evidence that brain injury can cause detrimental functional changes in brain regions far from the site of the actual injury.

Nobel Laureate Kenneth J. Arrow will discuss “The Economics of New Antimalarial Drugs” at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 21 in the Bryan Cave Courtroom, Anheuser-Busch Hall. Arrow, a longtime professor of economics at Stanford University, recently chaired a National Institute of Medicine committee that issued a report titled “Saving Lives, Buying Time: Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of Resistance.” Malaria, along with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, is one of the big three global killers of the world’s poorest people.

Designed to bring together great scientific minds in a comfortable, productive atmosphere, the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center became the new focal point at the School of Medicine in August. Read more about the $35 million state-of-the-art facility in the following St. Louis Post-Dispatch article.

The report is by Peter MacKeith, associate director of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and associate dean of Architecture.

The following incidents were reported to University Police Oct. 6-11. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. Oct. 6 9 a.m. — A person […]

The 45-foot long vehicle with a mobile television studio will be between Prince Hall and Umrath Hall on the Hilltop Campus Oct. 20.

Broken bones can cause some of the most painful traumatic injuries. Last spring, I experienced that reality firsthand when I fell nearly 12 feet off a ladder and severely fractured my wrist while painting my brother’s home in San Francisco. By the time I landed in Chicago to make my transfer home, my arm was […]

Most recently the shelving supervisor, she worked in University Libraries for the past 34 years.