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Below is a link to the Washington University news release about the U.S. News & World Report undergraduate rankings for 2004-05: http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/3627.html To view a full listing of U.S. News magazine, book and Web-only rankings for 2004-05, please visit the U.S. News & World Report site: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php

Researchers are trying to reduce the number of pills needed by AIDS patients.The public perception of AIDS treatment — a cocktail of many different pills taken several times a day — has largely been erased in the U.S. thanks to advances in drug design and delivery. Many patients are able to keep sufficiently high medication levels in their bodies with once-daily doses. Now researchers in an international collaborative that includes the WUSM Aids Clinical Trials Unit have begun an ambitious new study to see if this treatment paradigm can be implemented in Third World countries.

As the Senate prepares to consider nominees for two Supreme Court vacancies, some liberals fear that President Bush will use the opportunity to pack the High Court with conservative-leaning justices, pushing the law of the land dramatically to the right for years to come. However, a new book on the history of America’s judicial nomination process offers compelling evidence that a president’s ability to perpetuate personal political legacies through court appointments tends to be both short-lived and unpredictable. When it comes to the politics of Supreme Court nominees, president’s don’t always get what they want, suggests WUSTL Supreme Court expert Lee Epstein.

Smoking can increase the risk of death from cervical cancer.Cervical cancer patients infected with either of two strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) were twice as likely to die of their disease as patients with other common strains of HPV, according to a study at the School of Medicine. In addition, smokers with these strains increased their risk of death even further.

Photo by Robert BostonThe state-of-the-art Farrell Learning and Teaching Center will celebrate its grand opening Sept. 16 with a series of events.

WUSTL pharmacogenetics researchers are using National Institutes of Health funding to find ways to personalize cancer treatments.

Photo by Robert BostonThe Farrell Center will be the School of Medicine’s main teaching venue, serving both medical and graduate students.The state-of-the-art Farrell Learning and Teaching Center will celebrate its grand opening Sept. 16 with a series of events.

The company’s 29th season opens with the new musical production chronicling the history of Africans in America; it runs Sept. 14-25 at Edison Theatre.

The 2005 fund drive kicked off with a breakfast Sept. 1 at Whittemore House; faculty and staff members should have already received pledge cards.

Sergio Chayet, Ph.D., Daniel Elfenbein, Ph.D., Richard Frankel, Ph.D., and Armando Gomes, Ph.D.