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She joined the museum as curator in fall 1999 and regularly teaches seminars in the Department of Art History and Archaeology.

It will present works of Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Sebastian Bach, today’s most popular composers of the Baroque era.

Recipients — selected by faculty & peers after a formal nomination process — were Martin Boyer, Lewis Chase and Robert Rothbaum.

Changes in regional brain activity from childhood to adulthood may reflect more efficient use of the brain as it matures.

It’s part of the ninth annual Nationwide Asthma Screening Program; the condition is responsible for nearly 4,500 deaths each year.

Games, activities and an awards ceremony will honor and thank staff for their contributions to the University’s success.

One of 16 scholars selected in this highly competitive fellowship program, he’ll study themes focusing on Islam & the modern world.

The cycle for health benefits enrollment will now run on the calendar year instead of the University’s fiscal year.

EckmannSabine Eckmann, Ph.D., will become director of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis effective July 1, 2005, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced today. Eckmann joined the Kemper Art Museum as curator in fall 1999 and also regularly teaches seminars in the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences. She succeeds Mark S. Weil, Ph.D., the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration in the Arts, who has led the museum since 1998. Weil, a longtime faculty member in art history, will retire June 30.

Genes respond to chemo drugOncologists aren’t sure exactly why patients with the same cancer often respond very differently to the same treatment, but a growing body of evidence suggests the answer lies somewhere in the genes. Now researchers at the School of Medicine have become the first to profile the activity of whole sets of genes involved in processing chemotherapeutic drugs.