Challenges to public education financing in Missouri and the nation topic of public forum, Nov. 4.
“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.
Mobile mammography goes digital thanks to grant to Siteman Cancer Center
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.
Scholar Christopher Browning talks on Holocaust Denial in the Courtroom for the Assembly Series
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.
New map of genetic variations to facilitate era of personalized medicine
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.
Molecular drug pump may help reduce risk of Alzheimer’s
The molecule P-glycoprotein (Pgp) has long been an obstacle to cancer chemotherapy and drug treatments for brain disorders.
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Weidenbaum to discuss his memoir Nov. 2
Advising Reagan: Making Economic Policy, 1981-82, covers his time as the first chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers for President Reagan.
Answer: Jayanth Iyengar
Photo by Mary ButkusJayanth Iyengar, a junior in the Olin School of Business, was selected to be on the Jeopardy! College Championships beginning Nov. 7.
It’s Sperry Day!
Photo by Dave HormozdiThe School of Medicine’s Class of 2008 recently celebrated “Sperry Day” to honor the class president, Steve Sperry.
Of note
Lee D. Hoffer, Ph.D,
Christomper D. Gill, Ph.D,
Aaron D. Stump, Ph.D.,
Michael R. Brent, Ph.D,
Raj Jain, Ph.D.,
and more…
Scholarship information being e-mailed to students
“It used to be that students could only find this information if they came into our office,” says Vicki Mueller, assistant director for external scholarship programs.
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