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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.

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.

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