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Photo by Kevin LowderThe annual Parents Weekend drew more than 1,200 families from all over the country to campus, where they enjoyed numerous activities.

Malaria, along with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, is one of the three largest global killers of the world’s poorest people.

A multinational study will evaluate a drug called exemestane’s effectiveness at preventing breast cancer development.

His new book is titled The Politics of Piracy: Intellectual Property in Contemporary China.

James L. Gibson, Ph.D., Bamin Khomami, Ph.D., Tiffany Knight, Ph.D., Jonathan B. Losos, Ph.D., and more…

The event is being held in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name, on view in Olin Library through late December.

If Jeffrey Petersen hadn’t become a dermatologist, he might have become a private eye. What does investigating shady dealings have to do with steering patients to the shade? “With dermatology, you may not know the diagnosis, but you can see there’s a problem,” says Petersen, M.D., assistant professor of medicine. “Then the challenge becomes to […]

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

TeitelbaumSteven Teitelbaum, professor of pathology and immunology, was one of several experts invited to testify before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, chaired by Senator Arlen Specter, regarding the benefits of stem cell research. Read Teitelbaum’s testimony here.

Courtesy photoBrenda Marie OsbeyBrenda Marie Osbey, Poet Laureate of the State of Louisiana, will host a fundraiser for victims of Hurricane Katrina currently staying in the St. Louis area from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, in The Gargoyle. Osbey, a native of New Orleans, will read from her work and discuss Katrina’s effects on the city. In addition, the event will feature Dixieland music by St. Louis’ Bourbon Street Band, while Gerald Early, Ph.D., the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in Arts & Sciences, will speak on “The Death of Jazz and the Birth of New Orleans.”