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Photo by Kevin LowderBetsy Foy (left) and Kay Komotos walk on campus June 22 as part of the WU Walks program, which encourages personal health and well-being.

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.

Participants must be in stable health and not be performing vigorous exercise more than one time a week.

Glenn MacDonald, Ph.D., Anjan Thakor, Ph.D., and Chakravarthi Narasimhan, Ph.D., have all assumed additional responsibilities, marking a change in the school’s structure.

It is designed to provide a physical and intellectual environment for innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching, and will start in spring 2006.

Photo by David KilperLars Angenent (right) and Jason He examine the upflow microbial fuel cell, which can turn wastewater into electricity.The upflow microbial fuel cell is fed continually and works with chambers atop each other rather than beside each other.

Photo by Robert BostonMembers of the acrobatic troupe the Flying Wallendas visit the lab of Aaron DiAntonio, M.D. DiAntonio hopes to name a recently discovered gene “Wallenda.”