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School of Medicine researchers have found that a chromosome defect often seen in human acute myeloid leukemia (AML) can cause the same disease in mice when combined with a genetic defect in a molecule known as a tyrosine kinase receptor.

Washington University undergraduates help pull weeds at Hamilton Elementary School during the fourth annual Service First in 2002. As part of the St. Louis Public School’s “First Day, Every Day” initiative, more than 1,000 Washington University students will volunteer their time to landscape, paint, clean and renovate several schools to make the upcoming year more pleasant for teachers and students alike.

WrightIt’s common knowledge that minor aches and pains can be treated by applying cold or heat, but knowing how and when to use these treatments can be tricky, according to Rick W. Wright, M.D., instructor of orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine physician at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Wright, who serves as a team physician for the several St. Louis area professional sports teams, offers some advice on proper use of hot and cold therapies in an article published recently in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Bruce Fegley, Ph.D., and his colleagues in the Planetary Chemistry Laboratory here will conduct experiments on the origin of organic compounds in the solar nebula, the cloud of gas and dust from which the sun, Earth and other objects in the solar system formed. Fegley’s group will use the experimental results and other data to […]

HilgertRaymond L. Hilgert, D.B.A., Emeritus Professor of Management and Industrial Relations at Washington University’s John M. Olin School of Business, died Saturday, August 23, 2003 at St. Luke’s Hospital after a three-year battle with cancer. He was 73 and lived in Kirkwood. Hilgert, an award-winning teacher, author, labor arbitrator, nationally-recognized media commentator, and business ethicist, taught at the University from 1961 to 2001. In an article published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch upon Professor Hilgert’s retirement from the business school, former students explained the impact he had on their lives and careers. It is reprinted here by permission: “Ray Hilgert Leaves Legacy of Learning at Washington U” (July 22, 2001).

(Republished with permission from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This article originally ran in the Business section on Sunday, July 22, 2001)

BollingerPresident of Columbia University and a law professor, Lee C. Bollinger focuses primarily on free speech and First Amendment issues. He will deliver the inaugural Assembly Series lecture at Washington University. with a talk entitled “The Foundations of the Principles of Academic Freedom,”

In his self-portrait, young Vladimir “Wolf” Walter uses crayons to draw himself tall and strong, taking up the entire page as he towers over four pet cats. The boy in the picture has no hump on his back, no slouching lean of someone with severe scoliosis.

Bob BostonThe School of Medicine throws a party for a group of cerebral palsy patients from around the world, at the medical school for extended treatment and care.

KiberdDeclan Kiberd, one of the world’s preeminent scholars of modern Irish literature, will launch Washington University’s fall Writing Program Reading Series in Arts & Sciences with a pair of talks Sept. 9 and 11.