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It wasn’t a fashion show, but more than 120 incoming students donned new attire Aug. 13 during the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine’s annual White Coat Ceremony. The ceremony welcomes incoming medical students, and the white coat is symbolic of their transition into the study of medicine and their role as care givers.

With the November election quickly approaching, many people want to know more about the key issues facing the candidates. If that’s you, then you need to educate yourself! “Educate Yourself: 2004,” sponsored by Student Union, will comprise a series of weekly forums aimed at helping the University community, and the public, fully understand all sides of some of the larger issues in the upcoming election.

A page entitled, “Rankings of WUSTL by News Media.”

A test being developed by WUSM researchers could more definitively tell doctors whether or not a patient has Alzheimer’s disease. Read more about the procedure in this St. Louis Post-Dispatch article written by Kay Quinn.

Blood from umbilical cords can treat a wide range of life-threatening illnesses in children, from leukemia to sickle cell disease. Cynthia L. Price, a WUSM pediatric research coordinator at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, describes the benefits of donating cord blood in the following St. Louis Post-Dispatch article.

A protein linked to increased lifespan in yeast and worms can also delay the degeneration of ailing nerve cell branches, according to WUSTL researchers. Scientists report in the Aug. 13 issue of Science that their findings might open the door to new treatments for a wide range of neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Photo by David Kilper/WUSTL Photo ServicesMary Jean Cowell and Cecil Slaughter perform “Sliders” as part of the 2004 “Dance Close-Up” Sept. 9-11.Ballet and modern dance will share the stage with Indian Bharata Natyam and multi-media work in Dance Close-Up, an intimate presentation of new and original choreography by faculty in the Dance Program Sept. 9-11.

Part of a Follett Higher Education Group promotion, the contest featured the distribution of 500,000 game cards.

An award-winning author and designer, he also serves as associate dean in the School of Architecture and will serve as academic liaison to the School of Art.

Gammon Earhart, Ph.D., Catherine Lang, Ph.D., Sam Bagenstos, J.D., and Margo Schlanger, J.D.