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Hilltop Campus Phase IVA Housing The interior finish work is progressing and nearing substantial completion. The permanent power is connected and the building was air-conditioned by the end of June. The masonry work progresses on the northeast corner of the building. The roof work is complete. Occupancy is scheduled for August. Sam Fox Arts Center […]

Shirley K. Baker, dean of University Libraries and vice chancellor for information technology, has been appointed for a three-year term to the National Institutes of Health’s PubMed Central National Advisory Committee. She has also agreed to serve a two-year term on the Advisory Board for the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, a collaborative program of Canadian […]

Deanna Barch (center) discusses brain imaging techniques used in the experiment, which used the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine (shown at right).When encouraged to use memorization strategies commonly employed by healthy individuals, people with schizophrenia can be helped to remember information just as well as their healthy counterparts, a process that in itself seems to spur a normalization of memory-related activities in the brains of people with schizophrenia, suggests new research from Washington University in St. Louis.

Written in a plainspoken and often humorous style, the memoir offers a fresh and engaging perspective on Reagan’s leadership style and motivations.

He joins Lee Epstein, Ph.D., professor of political science, and Murray L. Weidenbaum, Ph.D., professor of economics, as the third Mallinckrodt professor in Arts & Sciences.

The grant from Hewlett-Packard was for 21 wireless tablet PCs with docking stations, along with a digital camera, portable projector and printer.

The professor emeritus will try to develop a Salmonella-based oral vaccine to protect infants from bacterial pneumonia.

Each individual’s reponse to aerobic training allowed the researchers to identify regions on chromosomes 6, 7 and 19 that are linked to the debilitating disease.

Cathepsin G regulates the ability of neutrophils to secrete chemicals that attract other immune cells and start the local inflammatory process.

He served as the organization’s vice president this past year, and has been elected an AAI counselor for years; he will serve a one-year term as president.